>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