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20030806: Gempak - IRIX64 - Problems with dclsfc ?

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  • Subject: 20030806: Gempak - IRIX64 - Problems with dclsfc ?
  • Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 12:50:07 -0600
>From: "Christian =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pag=E9?=" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200308070149.h771n6et012294

>Institution: Universite du Quebec a Montreal / Atmospheric Science Group
>Package Version: 5.6.J
>Operating System: IRIX64
>Hardware Information: SGI
>Inquiry: With this synop report:
>71728 11374 80906 10159 20148 39901 40116 53002 63002 70362 887//^M^M
>333 10167 20138 70340 90953=^M^M
>
>I got a 300 mm accumulation in 12h (P12M) in the gempak decoded file. I am not
>  an expert in synop manual decoding, was it the report or gempak that gave th
> e problem?
>
>Christian Pagé
>
>
>


Christian,

The decoder is correct.
The code group for precipitation is the 6RRRt[R] group.
In this case RRR=300mm and t[R] is the time period of accumulation
where 2 signifies 12 hours.

Steve Chiswell