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Scott and Steve, I have uploaded 2 files to hp1, dcuair_rulib.tar.Z and wtec.dat. The tarfile contains the routines modified to decode and store ship based soundings. The wtec.dat file contains the 4 parts of an April 18 11Z ship (WTEC) sounding used in testing. The primary change in addition to the dropsonde changes that were just made available in 5.6.c.1 are the decoding and storage of the ship STID rather than a station number. As a result, I have added the passing of STID to the RU library routines in addition to station number where necessary. The dcudcd.f calls to RU_SHDR and RU_DUPE reflect the changes in the RU library. I have modified the routines that set the station location (calls to SN_FSTN) to use the STID rather than ISTNM if ISTNM = IMISSD. The station ID will be set in RU_SHDR for a ship and the station number set to IMISSD. If the SHIP call sign is "SHIP", RU_SHDR attempts to create a semi-unique ID from the lat and lon as S####### (up to 8 characters long depending on ABS(lat*10) * 10000 + ABS(lon*10). I modified the Logical parameter name "drop" in RU_SHDR to be "mobile" since both the ship and dropsonde reports have the lat/lons in them. The modified RU routines are: rushdr.f rudupe.f rudecd.f rutmst.f rudcd2.f rustms.f The top 4 routines are called through dcuair. I updated the last 2 in the list to follow the updates for the dropsonde xlat/xlon changes so that the calling sequences are kept in step with the analogous routines used by dcuair. I don't see any current dc or bridge routines that call the latter "real-time" versions of the decode and station setting (my dcprof BUFR profiler routine uses RU_STMS). Let me know if you have any question/comments. Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support