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20000306: Metar data

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  • Subject: 20000306: Metar data
  • Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 10:50:54 -0700
Scott,

The SAUS4x reports have MTRxxx pils.
There are also FXUS4x reports that have a MTTxxx for
the test reports- but I don't try to decode test metars.

I put a tarfile of March 5 metars on as2.

Currently in mtfind.f, to get the MTRxxx reports I added
the check for MTRxxx (but didn't sum it to the indx=MAX() check.

        hdrid = bultin ( nchar + 1:nchar + 6)
        indxmt = INDEX ( hdrid, 'METAR' )
        indxsp = INDEX ( hdrid, 'SPECI' )
C
C*      check for PIL line folloing header
C
        indxpl = INDEX ( hdrid, 'MTR' )
        if(indxpl .eq.1) then
           do i=4,6
              CALL ST_ALNM(hdrid(i:i),ityp,ier)
              if((ityp.eq.0).or.(ier.ne.0)) indxpl = 0
           end do
        else
           indxpl = 0
        end if



Then, check for the indxpl flag in the iothr section.

          ELSE IF ( iothr .eq. 1 ) THEN
C
C*          METAR/SPECI not found; assume METAR.
C
            bultyp = 'MT'
C
C*          Check for MTRxxxpil line
C
            if((indxpl.eq.1).and.(bultin(nchar+7:nchar+7).eq.CHCR)) then
               ibpnt = ibpnt + 8
            else
               ibpnt  = ibpnt + 2
            endif


Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support




On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Scott Jacobs wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> Could you send us a few hours, or a whole days, worth of Metar reports
> that show the
> PIL as the second line? Duane is working on this problem with the
> decoders and none
> of our data has the PIL.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> 
>