19990917: Decoder Inquiry

>From: "Collin Daly" <address@hidden>
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 199909171945.NAA25044

>Hello All,
>
>    Does anyone know if there is a ship/buoy decoder available?  Thanks
>
>Collin
>
>
>Collin Daly
>Meteorological Systems Engineer
>Alden Electronics, Inc.
>40 Washington Street
>Westborough, Ma 01581
>Voice: (508)366-8851x2268
>Fax:    (508)898-2427
>e-mail: address@hidden 
>  visit us at:
>http://www.alden.com 
>

Gempak 5.4 from NCEP didn't have a synoptic decoder. We provided our own
dcsynop for synoptic, ship, and buoy reports.
.
There is a freely available perl decoder for NetCDF output in the
~ftp/pub/decoders/decoders.tar.Z called buoy2nc.

Steve Chiswell