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>From: Darren Gallant <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200212271640.gBRGeJt25088 > >Dear Unidata Support, > >I need to create some wind only profiles derived from Pibal files. >The only parmaters in the files are station name, latitude, longitude, >station elevation, and UWND,VWND,DRCT, and SPED, at various heights >(HGHT). Which program should I use: snprof, setting ptype=lin,acplot >(where I must create a ship formatted file) or is there another program which >would work? > >Thanks > >Darren > > >Darren R. Gallant UCAR/JOSS >Programmer/Technician Joint OfFice Of Science Support >303-497-2634 P.O. Box 3000 >address@hidden Boulder,CO 80307-30000 > > Darren, I would suggest creating a merged sounding file, just as the profiler data has only winds at height levels. Plot with vcoord=hght. Steve Chiswell