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20011026: 20011026: synoptic station table

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  • Subject: 20011026: 20011026: synoptic station table
  • Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:49:09 -0600
James,

Path the elev. column can be a station priority
!STID    STNM   NAME                             ST CO   LAT    LON  ELV PRI
!(8)     (6)    (32)                            (2)(2)   (5)    (6)   (5)(2)

If you gave all the stations a priority number, you could access
this with the SPRI parameter in sfparm:

                STATION VARIABLES
  
        STID - Character station identifier
        STNM - 5-digit station identifier
        SLAT - Station latitude in degrees
        SLON - Station longitude in degrees, West is negative
        SELV - Station elevation in meters
        SPRI - Station priority


Optionally, you could plot all stations with a priority grater than
a certain number like:
SFPARM=SPRI<3

Past the SPRI column you can also have TEXT comments like
the $GEMTBL/stns/nexrad.tbl has.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User SUpport




>From: James Murakami <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200110262123.f9QLNi128977

>Steve,
>
>Thanks a lot. I'll download it right away. By the way,
>in the "lsfstns.tbl" file, do you know what is represented
>by the number in the last column. I see columns for state/country,
>latitude, longitude, elevation, and something unknown to
>me.
>
>James
>
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>James Murakami
>Staff Meteorologist/Student Affairs
>Department of Atmospheric Sciences
>University of California, Los Angeles
>405 Hilgard Ave.
>Los Angeles, CA  90095-1565
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>
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>> 
>> >From: Unidata User Support <address@hidden>
>> >Organization: Unidata Program Center/UCAR
>> >Keywords:
>> 
>> James,
>> 
>> I have a first pass at a merged and updated synoptic station table at:
>> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/gempak/contrib/lsystns.upc
>> 
>> This is based on the "SF -10" missing stations output by the dclsfc
>> decoder. I will rerun the table after the weekend and see if any other stati
> ons
>> start popping up.
>> 
>> If you place this in you $GEMTBL/stns directory, you
>> can access it from your dclsfc decoder using "-s lsystns.upc"
>> in your pqact.conf invocation of the decoder.
>> 
>> Looking at a plot of today's data, the only large areas of the globe without
>> reports are in Africa. This basically coincides with the WMOareas
>> of lacking coverage: http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/images/GOS-surface.jpg
>> 
>> Steve Chiswell
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