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Steve: I've found the problem, and I apologize for bothering you with it. I should of known after 12 hours doing data analysis, what can happen to the old brain! When I looked at it fresh this morning, I immediately saw that the STID format was wrong. Thanks for your time...Brian _____________________________________________________________________________ Brian W. Potter State Climate Office of NC College of Physical and Mathematical Science Dept of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8208 Email: address@hidden Ph: 919.515.3056 Fax: 919.515.1441 URL: http://www.nc-climate.ncsu.edu _____________________________________________________________________________ From address@hidden Thu Jun 24 16:46:19 1999 Received: from uni03mr.unity.ncsu.edu (uni03mr.unity.ncsu.edu [152.1.1.166]) by unidata.ucar.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA07540 for <address@hidden>; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:46:17 -0600 (MDT) Keywords: 199906242246.QAA07540 Received: from unity.ncsu.edu (srsun-213res3.meas.ncsu.edu [152.1.150.62]) by uni03mr.unity.ncsu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8/UR01Feb99) with ESMTP id SAA11085; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:50:44 -0400 (EDT) Sender: address@hidden Message-ID: <address@hidden> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:46:15 -0400 From: Brian Potter <address@hidden> Organization: NC State University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: address@hidden Subject: problem w/sfedit program Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------CD50DAEA39C69858C78AFF5F" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------CD50DAEA39C69858C78AFF5F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Attn: Steve Chiswell Hi Steve: You were very helpful to me a couple of years ago in setting up a new file using sfcfil and sfedit. Since then I have used this technique several times in conjunction with the Barnes Objective analysis programs to plot irregular spaced data. Now, just when I think I'm good at this, Murphy raises his head! I ran into a problem getting sfedit to allow me to add the station data to my .gem file. I'm receiving a [sfedit 2] error for all 57 stations. The following is a copy of my output: Weatherman>sfcfil SFOUTF Output surface file circle.gem SFPRMF Surface parameter packing file NOEV;AVRG STNFIL Station information file circle_sta.dat SHIPFL Ship data file flag NO TIMSTN Times/additional stations 1/0 SFFSRC Surface file source Parameters requested: SFOUTF,SFPRMF,STNFIL,SHIPFL,TIMSTN,SFFSRC. GEMPAK-SFCFIL>r SFCFIL PARAMETERS: New surface file: circle.gem Parameter file: NOEV;AVRG Station file: circle_sta.dat Number of stations in STNFIL: 57 Number of additional stations: 0 Total number of stations: 57 Total number of times: 1 This file will be a standard surface file. Enter <cr> to accept parameters or type EXIT: The file has been created. Parameters requested: SFOUTF,SFPRMF,STNFIL,SHIPFL,TIMSTN,SFFSRC. GEMPAK-SFCFIL>e Weatherman>sfedit SFEFIL Surface edit file circle_data.dat SFFILE Surface data file circle.gem Parameters requested: SFEFIL,SFFILE. GEMPAK-SFEDIT>r SFEDIT PARAMETERS: Edit file: circle_data.dat Output surface file: circle.gem Parameters to be added to file: NOEV AVRG Enter <cr> to accept parameters or type EXIT: [SFEDIT 2] Station 01 cannot be added to the file. [SFEDIT 2] Station 02 cannot be added to the file. [SFEDIT 2] Station 03 cannot be added to the file. [SFEDIT 2] Station 04 cannot be added to the file. | | [total of 57 error msgs] V [SFEDIT 2] Station 54 cannot be added to the file. [SFEDIT 2] Station 55 cannot be added to the file. [SFEDIT 2] Station 56 cannot be added to the file. [SFEDIT 2] Station 57 cannot be added to the file. Parameters requested: SFEFIL,SFFILE. GEMPAK-SFEDIT> I've double checked the format in the station file (circle_sta.dat) and don't see anything wrong with the data file (circle_data.dat) either. Since these files are small, I've attached a copy in case you want to examine them on your platform. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks...Brian _____________________________________________________________________________ Brian W. Potter State Climate Office of NC College of Physical and Mathematical Science Dept of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8208 Email: address@hidden Ph: 919.515.3056 Fax: 919.515.1441 URL: http://www.nc-climate.ncsu.edu _____________________________________________________________________________ --------------CD50DAEA39C69858C78AFF5F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="circle_data.dat" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="circle_data.dat" PARM = NOEV;AVRG STID DATTIM NOEV AVRG 01 990101/0000 3 0.1000 02 990101/0000 1 0.0333 03 990101/0000 5 0.1667 04 990101/0000 7 0.2333 05 990101/0000 5 0.1667 06 990101/0000 4 0.1333 07 990101/0000 5 0.1667 08 990101/0000 6 0.2000 09 990101/0000 4 0.1333 10 990101/0000 4 0.1333 11 990101/0000 7 0.2333 12 990101/0000 7 0.2333 13 990101/0000 4 0.1333 14 990101/0000 2 0.0667 15 990101/0000 3 0.1000 16 990101/0000 4 0.1333 17 990101/0000 4 0.1333 18 990101/0000 4 0.1333 19 990101/0000 7 0.2333 20 990101/0000 2 0.0667 21 990101/0000 3 0.1000 22 990101/0000 1 0.0333 23 990101/0000 1 0.0333 24 990101/0000 2 0.0667 25 990101/0000 3 0.1000 26 990101/0000 4 0.1333 27 990101/0000 7 0.2333 28 990101/0000 6 0.2000 29 990101/0000 10 0.3333 30 990101/0000 10 0.3333 31 990101/0000 2 0.0667 32 990101/0000 1 0.0333 33 990101/0000 2 0.0667 34 990101/0000 2 0.0667 35 990101/0000 1 0.0333 36 990101/0000 5 0.1667 37 990101/0000 7 0.2333 38 990101/0000 4 0.1333 39 990101/0000 9 0.3000 40 990101/0000 7 0.2333 41 990101/0000 1 0.0333 42 990101/0000 2 0.0667 43 990101/0000 2 0.0667 44 990101/0000 5 0.1667 45 990101/0000 7 0.2333 46 990101/0000 7 0.2333 47 990101/0000 8 0.2667 48 990101/0000 11 0.3667 49 990101/0000 10 0.3333 50 990101/0000 5 0.1667 51 990101/0000 6 0.2000 52 990101/0000 7 0.2333 53 990101/0000 5 0.1667 54 990101/0000 7 0.2333 55 990101/0000 9 0.3000 56 990101/0000 10 0.3333 57 990101/0000 7 0.2333 --------------CD50DAEA39C69858C78AFF5F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="circle_sta.dat" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="circle_sta.dat" C01 99999 circle01 KY NC 3720 -8390 10 C02 99999 circle02 KY US 3720 -8270 10 C03 99999 circle03 VA US 3720 -8140 10 C04 99999 circle04 VA US 3720 -8020 10 C05 99999 circle05 VA US 3720 -7900 10 C06 99999 circle06 VA US 3720 -7780 10 C07 99999 circle07 VA US 3720 -7660 10 C08 99999 circle08 VA US 3720 -7530 10 C09 99999 circle09 VA US 3720 -7410 10 C10 99999 circle10 TN US 3640 -8450 10 C11 99999 circle11 TN US 3640 -8330 10 C12 99999 circle12 TN US 3640 -8200 10 C13 99999 circle13 NC US 3640 -8080 10 C14 99999 circle14 NC US 3640 -7960 10 C15 99999 circle15 NC US 3640 -7840 10 C16 99999 circle16 NC US 3640 -7720 10 C17 99999 circle17 NC US 3640 -7600 10 C18 99999 circle18 NC US 3640 -7470 10 C19 99999 circle19 NC US 3640 -7350 10 C20 99999 circle20 TN US 3550 -8510 10 C21 99999 circle21 NC US 3550 -8390 10 C22 99999 circle22 NC US 3550 -8270 10 C23 99999 circle23 NC US 3550 -8140 10 C24 99999 circle24 NC US 3550 -8020 10 C25 99999 circle25 NC US 3550 -7900 10 C26 99999 circle26 NC US 3550 -7780 10 C27 99999 circle27 NC US 3550 -7660 10 C28 99999 circle28 NC US 3550 -7530 10 C29 99999 circle29 NC US 3550 -7410 10 C30 99999 circle30 NC US 3550 -7290 10 C31 99999 circle31 GA NC 3460 -8450 10 C32 99999 circle32 GA US 3460 -8330 10 C33 99999 circle33 SC US 3460 -8200 10 C34 99999 circle34 SC US 3460 -8080 10 C35 99999 circle35 SC US 3460 -7960 10 C36 99999 circle36 NC US 3460 -7840 10 C37 99999 circle37 NC US 3460 -7720 10 C38 99999 circle38 NC US 3460 -7600 10 C39 99999 circle39 NC US 3460 -7470 10 C40 99999 circle40 NC US 3460 -7350 10 C41 99999 circle41 GA US 3380 -8390 10 C42 99999 circle42 GA US 3380 -8270 10 C43 99999 circle43 SC US 3380 -8140 10 C44 99999 circle44 SC US 3380 -8020 10 C45 99999 circle45 SC US 3380 -7900 10 C46 99999 circle46 SC US 3380 -7780 10 C47 99999 circle47 SC US 3380 -7660 10 C48 99999 circle48 SC US 3380 -7530 10 C49 99999 circle49 SC US 3380 -7410 10 C50 99999 circle50 GA US 3290 -8330 10 C51 99999 circle51 GA US 3290 -8200 10 C52 99999 circle52 SC US 3290 -8080 10 C53 99999 circle53 SC US 3290 -7960 10 C54 99999 circle54 SC US 3290 -7840 10 C55 99999 circle55 SC US 3290 -7720 10 C56 99999 circle56 SC US 3290 -7600 10 C57 99999 circle57 SC US 3290 -7470 10 --------------CD50DAEA39C69858C78AFF5F--