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Grady, You are creating your surface file with room for 20 different times: > TIMSTN Times/additional stations 20/50 ... > Total number of times: 20 Your data is every 15 minutes. You start seeing errors at: [SFEDIT -7] Time 960509/0515 cannot be added to data set. That should be the result of already adding your 20 times: 0015, 0030, 0045, 0100, 0115, 0130, 0145, 0200, 0215, 0230, 0245, 0300, 0315, 0330, 0345, 0400, 0415, 0430, 0445, 0500 If you want 4x per hour * 24 hours, try creating the file with 96 times. The maximum number of times that you can have in a surface file is 300. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Grady Dixon wrote: > Steve > > I am using 5.6 to plot surface data from several different > stations...some report in metric units, some report in english units. > But I keep getting an [SFEDIT -7] error: "time...cannot be added to > data set" > > here is a sample of my sfefil: > PARM = TMPC;DWPC;RELH;SPED;SKNT;DRCT;PRES;ALTI > > STID DATTIM TMPC DWPC RELH SPED SKNT DRCT PRES ALTI > ATA 960509/0015 23.17 -9999 73.40 2.62 -9999 155.90 982.00 -9999 > ATA 960509/0030 22.94 -9999 73.70 2.03 -9999 167.20 982.00 -9999 > ATA 960509/0045 22.83 -9999 75.10 2.08 -9999 174.50 982.00 -9999 > ATA 960509/0100 22.67 -9999 76.50 1.91 -9999 201.30 982.00 -9999 > ATA 960509/0115 22.50 -9999 76.80 2.18 -9999 201.70 981.00 -9999 > ATA 960509/0130 22.39 -9999 77.80 2.09 -9999 204.70 981.00 -9999 > ATA 960509/0145 22.22 -9999 77.20 2.41 -9999 206.70 981.00 -9999 > ATA 960509/0200 22.17 -9999 75.80 2.22 -9999 215.00 981.00 -9999 > ATA 960509/0215 22.11 -9999 75.40 2.79 -9999 216.20 981.00 -9999 > ATA 960509/0230 21.94 -9999 75.50 3.17 -9999 226.40 981.00 -9999 > ATA 960509/0245 21.78 -9999 76.50 3.12 -9999 216.00 981.00 -9999 > ATA 960509/0300 21.61 -9999 77.40 2.11 -9999 226.40 981.00 -9999 > ATA 960509/0315 21.28 -9999 79.50 2.21 -9999 239.00 982.00 -9999 > > > > here is a copy of my sfcfil and sfedit commands with the first few > errors listed: > > SFOUTF Output surface file may.sfc > SFPRMF Surface parameter packing file > tmpc;dwpc;relh;sped;sknt;drct;pres;alti > STNFIL Station information file stations.tbl > SHIPFL Ship data file flag NO > TIMSTN Times/additional stations 20/50 > SFFSRC Surface file source text > Parameters requested: SFOUTF,SFPRMF,STNFIL,SHIPFL,TIMSTN,SFFSRC. > GEMPAK-SFCFIL>r > > SFCFIL PARAMETERS: > > New surface file: may.sfc > > Parameter file: tmpc;dwpc;relh;sped;sknt;drct;pres;alti > > Station file: > > Number of stations in STNFIL: 25 > Number of additional stations: 50 > Total number of stations: 75 > Total number of times: 20 > > This file will be a standard surface file. > > Enter <cr> to accept parameters or type EXIT: > The file has been created. > Parameters requested: SFOUTF,SFPRMF,STNFIL,SHIPFL,TIMSTN,SFFSRC. > GEMPAK-SFCFIL>e > austru% sfedit > SFEFIL Surface edit file may.prn > SFFILE Surface data file may.sfc > Parameters requested: SFEFIL,SFFILE. > GEMPAK-SFEDIT>r > > SFEDIT PARAMETERS: > > Edit file: may.prn > > > Output surface file: may.sfc > > > Parameters to be added to file: > > TMPC DWPC RELH SPED SKNT DRCT PRES ALTI > Enter <cr> to accept parameters or type EXIT: > [SFEDIT -7] Time 960509/0515 cannot be added to data set. > [SFEDIT -7] Time 960509/0530 cannot be added to data set. > [SFEDIT -7] Time 960509/0545 cannot be added to data set. > [SFEDIT -7] Time 960509/0600 cannot be added to data set. > [SFEDIT -7] Time 960509/0615 cannot be added to data set. > [SFEDIT -7] Time 960509/0630 cannot be added to data set. > [SFEDIT -7] Time 960509/0645 cannot be added to data set. > [SFEDIT -7] Time 960509/0700 cannot be added to data set. > [SFEDIT -7] Time 960509/0715 cannot be added to data set. > [SFEDIT -7] Time 960509/0730 cannot be added to data set. > [SFEDIT -7] Time 960509/0745 cannot be added to data set. > [SFEDIT -7] Time 960509/0800 cannot be added to data set. > [SFEDIT -7] Time 960509/0815 cannot be added to data set. > [SFEDIT -7] Time 960509/0830 cannot be added to data set. > [SFEDIT -7] Time 960509/0845 cannot be added to data set. > [SFEDIT -7] Time 960509/0900 cannot be added to data set. > > > Any suggestions on how to get this to work? > Thanks > GRADY > > ********************************* > Grady Dixon > Department of Geography > University of Georgia > http://www.arches.uga.edu/~gdixon > >