20020123: multiple file access with sffile

Chris,

You should be able to use the METAR template without haveing to create
an new METARMET template. But all that aside:

The problem you have is you are specifying DATTIM=all, where all means all the
times in the most recent file (the all, first and last abbreviations only refer 
to one file). 
Instead, specify dattim as the range of times you want, such as:
DATTIM = 21/1200-24/0000


That gives me:
 SFGRAM PARAMETERS

 Surface file:       $GEMDATA/surface/20020121_sao.gem
 Number of times:     174
 Time range:         020121/1200-23/2140

Now it gets all the times available in the dattim range.

Steve Chiswell

>From: address@hidden (Chris Hennon)
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200201231631.g0NGVEx16839

>Steve -
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>I noticed that SFFILE in sfgram now allows the user to access more than
>one surface file at a time.  I added the following entry to the
>$GEMTBL/config/datatype.tbl file :
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>METARMET  $GEMDATA/surface    *_sao.gem  CAT_SFC  SCAT_SFC  10 2880  60
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>and then in sfgram:
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> SFFILE  = METARMET
> DATTIM  = all
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>etc....
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>My goal was to have sfgram find all currently available surface files and
>use that data to create a meteogram that presented observations over the
>last 24-48 hours.  However when I run sfgram it appears to only be
>plotting data from the first surface file it finds rather than all of
>them.  Could you tell me where I am going wrong?  Thanks.
>
>Chris 
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