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Jimmy, I see 2 problems. 1) Your station table station IDs are 8 characters, while your data file is using 5 character station IDs, so they won't be found in the station table. Eg: Stntbl: F0000001 99999 XX OO US 4129 -9464 300 Sfcfile F0001 990604/1200 291.5 288.7 3.6 80. 1013. 2) Your station table elevations are 1 column to the left. Steve Chiswell >From: address@hidden >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200306271924.h5RJOcLd006236 > This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, > while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. > Send mail to address@hidden for more info. > >--8323328-1221669894-1056741881=:4415 >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > >oops...sorry about that. Its attached now. >there are no tabs...I counted the spaces to make sure they were >correct, but maybe I missed something. >Thanks >jimmyc > >On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Unidata Support >wrote: > >> >>Jimmy, >> >>You didn't attach the files. >>Sounds like your station table is off. Make sure you don't have tabs. >> >>Steve Chiswell >> >> >> >>>From: address@hidden >>>Organization: UCAR/Unidata >>>Keywords: 200306271712.h5RHC1Ld008249 >> >>>Hi- >>>I made a surface file with a new station table, imported the data via >>>sfedit, then used sflist to list the data. In order to list the data I had >>>to use area=dset. And, I cant list out slat or slon... they come out as >>>-99999 . Which is probably my problem. >>>Now I'd like to use this data for input into oabsfc but >>>I cant plot the data in sfmap. >>>I am pretty sure my format of the station table is correct. I have >>>attached my station table and data (in the same file for convenience). I >>>am forgetting to do something? >>>Thanks! >>> >>>-- >>> >>>James Correia Jr >>>-------------------------------------------------- >>>PhD candidate Ag Met >>>Iowa State University >>>phone: 515-294-5587 >>>email: address@hidden >>>http://www.mesoscale.iastate.edu/jimmyc/index.html >>>-------------------------------------------------- >>> >>>All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no >>>meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat!?'. I'm trying to impress >>>people here Lisa. You don't win friends with salad. >>>--the other Homer >>> >>>"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." >>>--Einstein >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>**************************************************************************** >>Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program >>(303)497-8643 P.O. Box 3000 >>address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 >>---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>Unidata WWW Service http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/support >>**************************************************************************** >> > >-- > >James Correia Jr >-------------------------------------------------- >PhD candidate Ag Met >Iowa State University >phone: 515-294-5587 >email: address@hidden >http://www.mesoscale.iastate.edu/jimmyc/index.html >-------------------------------------------------- > >All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no >meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat!?'. I'm trying to impress >people here Lisa. You don't win friends with salad. >--the other Homer > >"I have no special talent. 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