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20031108: 20031106: Gempak - Linux 9.0 - DCNLDN decoder

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  • Subject: 20031108: 20031106: Gempak - Linux 9.0 - DCNLDN decoder
  • Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 17:56:40 -0700
Kartik,

No, the GEMPAK time cannot include seconds.
It actually works better for plotting to bin the times into something like 5 
minute
intervals, so that a plot would show the strikes over a 5 minute period.

You can store the minutes and seconds as data fields to maintain this
information in your data file, but the time category would be to
whole minutes for retreival.

Steve Chiswell

>From: Kartik Ramakrishnan <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200311080821.hA88LAOb009012

>Hi Steve,
>Thanks for the help...one more quick question..the
>nldn data I have lists time by the seconds...i.e. I
>have data like:
>
>09/02/98 00:00:00 29.560 -111.381   -17.2  1
>09/02/98 00:00:00 28.304  -80.757   -26.2  1
>09/02/98 00:00:00 28.854  -76.192   -25.4  1
>09/02/98 00:00:00 44.546  -86.797   -24.9  7
>09/02/98 00:00:01 31.700 -112.984   -27.6  1
>09/02/98 00:00:01 27.107  -87.267   -25.8  1
>09/02/98 00:00:03 31.293 -112.914   -31.6  2
>09/02/98 00:00:03 34.652 -110.773   -13.7  1
>09/02/98 00:00:03 28.997  -75.408   -46.4  2
>...
>
>but the DATTIM parameter accepts only YYMMDD/HHMM...is
>it possible to include HHMMSS in the gempak file?
>Rgards,
>Kartik
>
>
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