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Kartik, the DCNLDN decoder is designed against the data being sent on the IDD from SUNY-Albany. If you have ascii data, you can put the data into a text format as SFLIST outputs, using latitude and longitude as data, and thenimport by creating the file with SFCFIL and importing with SFEDIT. An example of creating a ship format file from ascii text is shown at: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/msgout?/glimpse/gempak/4406 A sample of ascii format for SFEDIT might look like: PARM = SLAT;SLON;SGNL;MULT STN YYMMDD/HHMM SLAT SLON SGNL MULT - 031107/2200 24.74 -76.87 -130.00 1.00 - 031107/2200 25.52 -76.98 -110.00 1.00 - 031107/2200 25.50 -76.98 -110.00 1.00 - 031107/2205 24.75 -76.82 -240.00 2.00 - 031107/2205 24.69 -76.92 -180.00 1.00 - 031107/2205 24.87 -76.81 -210.00 1.00 - 031107/2205 25.20 -77.44 -200.00 1.00 - 031107/2205 24.81 -76.80 -290.00 2.00 - 031107/2205 25.12 -77.69 -200.00 1.00 - 031107/2205 24.89 -76.81 -260.00 2.00 - 031107/2210 25.48 -76.89 -150.00 2.00 - 031107/2210 25.56 -77.10 -230.00 1.00 - 031107/2210 25.60 -77.26 -200.00 1.00 - 031107/2210 24.90 -76.93 -180.00 1.00 - 031107/2210 24.88 -76.88 -440.00 1.00 - 031107/2210 25.51 -76.96 -170.00 2.00 - 031107/2215 24.77 -76.75 -280.00 2.00 - 031107/2215 25.55 -77.11 -480.00 3.00 - 031107/2215 24.84 -76.94 -110.00 1.00 - 031107/2215 25.20 -77.46 -380.00 1.00 - 031107/2215 24.82 -76.91 -260.00 1.00 - 031107/2220 24.76 -76.81 -240.00 1.00 - 031107/2220 24.57 -76.81 -410.00 1.00 - 031107/2220 24.73 -76.74 -200.00 1.00 - 031107/2225 24.80 -76.84 -220.00 2.00 Steve Chiswell >From: "Kartik" <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200311070018.hA70Ioh6028420 >Institution: UCF >Package Version: 5.6 >Operating System: Linux 9.0 >Hardware Information: P4 1.8 GHz >Inquiry: Hi, >I'm trying to display nldn data using GARP . >I understand that the dcnldn decoder converts nldn data to gempak ship format, > but I can't seem to get it working...I later found out that the decoder work > s with binary nldn data and not with the ascii format-which is unforutnately > what I have.. >Could somebody please help by letting me know: >a>If the latest update of the dcnldn decoder works with ascii nldn data?...if > so where can I download this decoder? >b>If there is no ascii version of the decoder how can I adapt the existing dec > oder to work with ascii data? >Thanks and regards, >Kartik > > >