20040315: 1-hour granularity synoptic decoding

Art,

I received a tarfile of mods from Christian Page at U. Quebec/Montreal
with the dclsfc changes for 1 hour data bins. See message below.

I haven't merged these in with the supported distribution, but you may want to
look at the code in #6 below. The tarfile is under
ftp://gbuddy:address@hidden/incoming/mods_gempak.tar.gz


Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support



>From: "Arthur A. Person" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200403151635.i2FGZArV013496

>Hi...
>
>We've noticed that synoptic stations running through the dclsfc synoptic
>decoder are dropping data when reporting at hourly intervals (e.g.
>portions of Europe).  We've tried adding "-m 24" to the decoder but it
>doesn't seem to have had an effect.  Any suggestions?
>
>                                   Art.
>-- 
>Arthur A. Person
>Research Assistant, System Administrator
>Penn State Department of Meteorology
>email:  address@hidden, phone:  814-863-1563
>
--




>
>
>
>> Hi Steve,
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I made many modifications in GEMPAK, I don't know if a few could be
>> interesting to include in the next official version (it would also  
>> save
>> me some work each time GEMPAK is updated ;-) ). I will only list the
>> modified files for now and send you the ones you think could be
>> included.
>>
>> 1) SFUK packing table (European lightning data : sferics)
>> gempak/tables/pack/sfuk.pack
>>
>> 2) SFUK decoder (European lightning data : sferics)
>> I built the decoder from scratch, so the source code may not comply to
>> GEMPAK standards.
>>
>> 3) Tenth precision in precip amounts for dclsfc
>> gempak/tables/pack/sfsyn.pack
>> gempak/tables/pack/lsfc.pack
>>
>> 4) 30 min bins for dcmetr
>> gempak/source/bridge/dc/dcgtim.f
>> gempak/source/bridge/mt/mtdcod.f
>>
>> 5) 30 min bins and also SPECI included in decoded data in a separate
>> instance of dcmetr called dcmetr_speci
>> gempak/source/bridge/dc/dcgtim.f
>> gempak/source/bridge/mt/mtdcod.f
>>
>> 6) 1h bins SYNOP data in a separate instance of dclsfc called  
>> dclsfc_1h
>> gempak/source/bridge/ls/lsgemp.f
>>
>> 7) GEMCLRBAR environment variable added to control the display of the
>> colorbar
>> gempak/source/gemlib/im/imdrop.f
>>
>> 8) More complete list of european/canadian stations, as well as
>> ordering changes
>> gempak/tables/stns/sfmetar_sa.tbl
>> gempak/tables/stns/lsfstns.tbl
>>
>> 9) More complete upper-air soundings stations list
>> cat snstns.tbl snstns_land.tbl snstns_ship.tbl > snall.tbl
>>
>> 10) Europe-decoded MAX/MIN temperatures
>> gempak/source/bridge/ls/lstemp.f
>> gempak/source/bridge/ls/lswgem.f
>>
>> Also, any hope to see values like 10.2 displayed by sfmap or related
>> programs?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Christian Pagé
>> address@hidden
>> http://meteocentre.com/    http://meteoalerte.com/
>>
>> Etudiant au Doctorat en Sciences de l'environnement UQAM
>> +1 514 987 3000 ext. 2376
>>
>>

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