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  • Subject: Re: your request to subscribe to "BUFRLIB support"
  • Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 14:09:08 -0600 (MDT)
Jeff,

I have some questions about bufr tables. Hope you can answer these.

A snippet of your code shows:

C
        IF  ( cborg (1:4) .eq. 'KARP' )  THEN
            bfstyp = 'NC004004'
        ELSE IF  ( cborg (1:4) .eq. 'EGRR' )  THEN
            bfstyp = 'NC004006'
        ELSE
            bfstyp = 'NC004009'
        END IF
It appears that you are using part of the product pattern to load certain tables, is that correct? 

In doc:
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/sib/decoders/BUFRLIB/toc/dfbftab/
it mentions that the mnemonic tables need to be loaded according to datatype and data subtype. This seems different then your code, can you explain this? 


In doc:

http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/data_processing/NCEP_BUFR_File_Structure.htm#ASCII_Table
it mentions that the first descriptors in the data refer to what tables need to be loaded to decode. How many products follow this syntax? 


In doc:

http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/data_processing/bufrtab_tabled.htm
In the local classes there are many reference to mnemonic tables that I can't find anywhere on the web. The tables are in [] similar to [NC003003]. Where can I download these tables? 

Thanks,
RObb...


On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Jeff Ator wrote:


Dear Robb,
We noticed that you recently asked to join our "BUFRLIB support" mailing list. However, this is a list for use by myself and all of the other folks who collectively maintain the NCEP BUFRLIB software - we use it to receive user inquiries, discuss maintenance issues, respond to bug reports, etc. I believe you would be better served by instead subscribing to our "BUFRLIB announce" mailing list at address@hidden This is the list we use to notify our users of general announcements, software updates, etc. You can still post inquiries to the "BUFRLIB support" list, but it's not a list to which you should be directly subscribing. 

Best regards,
-Jeff



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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
address@hidden             WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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