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20010706: WYL location/elevation error?

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  • Subject: 20010706: WYL location/elevation error?
  • Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 14:33:17 -0600
Michael,

You can change the elevaltion in the station table used by the
data decoder in $GEMTBL/stns.

The elevation of 1615m seems correct based on the NCDC/USAF table
ftp://ncardata.ucar.edu/datasets/ds900.0/data/1999.01

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support


On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Michael E. Splitt wrote:

> Steven,
>
>     I run QC algorithms for the MesoWest program
> (http://www.met.utah.edu/mesowest).
> The algorithms were flagging data from YOHO PARK (in Canada). When I did
> some
> further troubleshooting, I found that the elevation for YOHO PARK is
> listed as 60 meters.
> The low elevation ended up being the cause for the flagging. I found the
> following
> metadata at:
>
> http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~dery/WVRTombstone.htm
>
>
> LAT      LON    ELV
>   YOHO PARK CS               WYL    71786      5127     11620   1615.0
>
> From GEMPAK page:
>
> LAT   LON   ELV
>   WYL       71786 YOHO PARK (AUTO8)                AB CN  5145 -11633
> 60
>
> I believe the 1615 is likely much closer to the actual elevations... how
> do you go
> about making corrections to the station metadata?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike
>
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