20010925: ship and buoy decoding

Mike,

The ship format file does not have a "number of times" versus
"number of stations" format like fixed stations.

Rather, each time, station, location point is a unique entry.
The current maximum number of headers is 30,000. (generally
300 times and 29,700 location in a standard file). You
can have at max, 30000 observations in a ship format file. The
default is 3399 set at NCEP, but you should be able to make this -m 29999.


If you are currently seeing 4+ hours in the 3400 limit, then you might
be able to fit this into a single daily file. But, the tradeoff is
much slower data access. And the NMAP configurations are currently
set for houly data.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support



 
>From: Mike Trexler <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200109251535.f8PFZQ115467

>Hi Steve (presumably)
>
>I am having trouble decoding ship and buoy data into daily,
>rather than hourly files.  The files seem to only accept data
>through 5Z and then can't hold anymore.  I don't know if it's
>a number of times issue or a number of stations issue.  I
>tried several combination of flags after the decoder, which
>didn't seem to work.  How is it that I should setup that line
>in my pqact file.
>
>thanks
>Mike
>
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