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20020430: Meso West Station Listing - FYI
- Subject: 20020430: Meso West Station Listing - FYI
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 08:36:53 -0600 (MDT)
As answered previously,
The AWIPS location is:
0000000000|KS14 | 44.30 |-112.10 | 1794|SPENCER, ID |US|MTR
The 122 was a typo from 112 in 2 of the tables only.
Michael's 42N is likely an error.
Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Michael E. Splitt wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Well...assuming anyone has this correct may be a problem!
> Based on what you sent me and the version we had:
>
>
> S14 99999 SPENCER ID US 4435 -12218 1800
>
> I am guessing our original source (Unidata) just had the longitude off by a
> degree;
> and that the other nws site (http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/seattle/obs.html) may
> be completely off....I'll do some more checking before we correct our
> metadata!
>
> Mike
>
> > Mike,
> > thanks for your response.
> > I would just like to varify the coordinates you sent me.
> > The coordinates for the town of Spencer, Idaho are approx. 44.35,
> > -112.183.
> > Sorry to be a nag.
> > -Tom
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael E. Splitt [mailto:address@hidden]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 6:19 AM
> > To: address@hidden; Tom Marks
> > Subject: Re: Meso West Station Listing - FYI
> >
> >
> > Tom,
> >
> > This station is a METAR observation site from the National Weather
> > Service and and is supposed to be in Idaho, the source that provides us
> > the lat/lon for the METAR sites is incorrect. Thanks for noticing.
> >
> > What looks to be the correct metadata for this site is:
> >
> > Idaho
> > Station Name State ID Lat Lon Elev WMO
> > (M) Number
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > --------
> >
> >
> > SPENCER ID US S14 42.21 -112.11 1700 99999
> >
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > ************************************************************************
> > ******
> > Michael E. Splitt
> > NOAA Cooperative Institute for Regional Prediction
> > UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > To Whom it may concern,
> > > Just an FYI,
> > > I was mapping the sites off your web site
> > > (http://www.met.utah.edu/cgi-bin/devel/meso_station.cgi?area=0) and
> > > discovered that a site (Spencer - S14) indicates Idaho as its State. I
> >
> > > believe it should be Oregon.
> > >
> > > Tom Marks
> > > Idaho Trans. Dept.
> > > Boise Id.
> >
>