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2000313: Problem viewing LDM-decoded upperair files in Nsharp

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  • Subject: 2000313: Problem viewing LDM-decoded upperair files in Nsharp
  • Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 22:02:43 -0700
Chris,

The "archived" button is what they refer to their text output that the program
creates when you "save" the output to the DECROB file.

To read Gempak format files, you need to have them in the "observed" sounding 
directory.

Steve Chiswell



>From: "C. Vandersip" <address@hidden>
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 200003140111.SAA26745

>Steve,
>
>FYI, we're operating nawips-5.4 at pl15.
>
>Chris
>
>On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, C. Vandersip wrote:
>
>> Steve,
>> 
>> When trying to view archived, decoded upperair files (YYYYMMDD.gem) with
>> Nsharp, we get the following:
>> 
>>    0   0   0   0
>> Unknown sounding file format.  Read aborted.
>> 
>> 
>> I found the lines of code in readdata.c that spits this out and it
>> appears that it is not seeing these files as being in SHARP 2.0 or 1.5
>> file format.  Of course, Gempak is also one of the supported formats (are
>> the SHARP formats and Gempak formats one and the same?). 
>> 
>> Interestingly, our Observed Soundings link is tied to the 7-day "cur.gem"
>> file I maintain using snmod (Remember you helped me last month with a
>> problem I was having with the surface part of the cur.gem program...btw,
>> your fix for that worked great...thanks) and Nsharp reads that *fine*.  Do
>> you think this could be a problem with how pqact is set up?
>> 
>> DDS|IDS ^U[ABDEFGHIJKLMPQRSTXZ].... .... ([0-3][0-9])
>>          PIPE    /nawips/bin/sol/dcuair -v 1 -a 100 -m 99
>>          -d logs/dcuair.log
>>          -p /nawips/gempak5.4/tables/pack/snmerg.pack
>>          -s /nawips/gempak5.4/tables/stns/snworld.tbl
>>          data/gempak/upperair/YYYYMMDD.gem
>> 
>> I've checked the Nsharp resource file and nothing there *appears* to
>> relate to this problem.
>> 
>> As always, thanks for your assistance.
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>>       ###############################################################
>>       #                      Chris Vandersip                        #
>>       #        Computer Research Specialist/Dept. Sysadmin          #
>>       #  Rm. 024, Dept. of Meteorology, Florida State University    #
>>       #          address@hidden   (850)644-2522                     #
>>       ###############################################################
>> 
>> 
>
>        ###############################################################
>        #                      Chris Vandersip                        #
>        #        Computer Research Specialist/Dept. Sysadmin          #
>        #  Rm. 024, Dept. of Meteorology, Florida State University    #
>        #          address@hidden   (850)644-2522                     #
>        ###############################################################
>