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Greg, The current incarnation of dcuair does not decode the UUxx parts of the sounding data stream, so WTEC is not being decoded. I have some development code which does decode the ship and dropsonde soundings. I put in this in ~gbuddy/nawips-5.6/contrib/dcuair2.tar.Z You can download/extract/build from $NAWIPS with: zcat dcuair2.tar.Z | tar xvf - cd $GEMPAK/source/bridge/ua make clean make all make clean cd $GEMPAK/source/programs/dc/dcuair2 make clean make all make install make clean The invocation of dcuair is the same as dcuair. It will add WTEC to the sounding file with STID=WTEC and STNM=-9999. The lat/lon for 12Z was 38.4N 133.5E. I just ran the 12Z data stream and all appeared OK, Denver was identical to that decoded by dcuair. I haven't done an exhaustive comparison, and testing on all platforms yet so I would suggest using with extreme caution- but if you do run it, I'd appreciate any feedback as to whether it is correctly decoding your soundings! Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Greg Stossmeister wrote: > Steve, > I have another question for you. We are trying to look at ship soundings > being taken for ACE-Asia by the R/V Ron Brown (WTEC). In our ldm pqact.conf > file > I am collecting upper air observations the following way: > > # > # WORLDWIDE Upper Air Soundings > # > WMO ^U[C-QS-Z].* .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]) PIPE > /opt/gempak5.4/bin/sol/dcuair > -d /weather/gempak/logs/dcuair.log > -s /opt/gempak5.4/gempak5.4/tables/stns/snworld.tbl > -a 2000 > -m 24 > /weather/gempak/data/uaYYYYMMDD.gem > > I am using this same header info for collecting the text messages into another > file. My problem is this: When I run SNLIST on the gempak file I create and > look > for area=@WTEC, I find no data. However a check of the text files I'm > creating > shows this data was received by our ldm using the above filter. > Is it the case that if WTEC does not show up in the station list, the > data is > not written to the GEMPAK file? > I've noticed that with the newer version of gempak (5.6.a) that in > /opt/gempak5.6.a/gempak/tables/stns that there are tables for both ship and > land > sounding sites. Do I have to create a table file that contains both and refer > to > that with the -s option in order to save both ship and land sounding data? > > Thanks for all your help! I really appreciate it. > Greg > >