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20041027: Decoding single sounding

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  • Subject: 20041027: Decoding single sounding
  • Date: 27 Oct 2004 13:34:16 -0600
Nancy,

Attatched are the raw and decoded TUC 12Z observations for 20030723.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support



On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 13:10, Nancy Selover wrote:
> I have searched the archives and the manual and I'm confused about how
> to create a Gempak format sounding file.  I have the ASCII format
> sounding file for 1 station, and I need to convert it to Gempak format
> so I can open it in NSHARP.  It's in the standard format with the
> first line as a header with the time, day month and year and the
> second line has the station IDs and lat, long and elevation.  All the
> lines after that have a pressure level, height, temp, dew point, wind
> direction and wind speed in knots.  When I try to run the decoder:
> 
>  "dcuair -c 030723/1300 -b 1 20030723_upa.gem < 20030723.txt"
> 
>  I specify the "current" time as 1 hour after the sounding and tell it
> to decode 1 hour prior to the current time.  The dcuair.log file I get
> says:
> 
> 041027/1125[DC 3] Starting up. Version 5.7.3
> 041027/1125[DC -9] End of input data file.
> 041027/1125[DC 5] Normal termination.
> 041027/1125[DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 0
> 041027/1125[DC 6] Shutting down.
> 
> Or, should I be using SNCFIL instead of decoding ???
> 
> The file is a single 12 Z sounding for Tucson.  In the alternative,
> does anyone have the decoded upperair files for July 23, 2003.  The
> 12Z is the only sounding I really need.
> 
> Thank you,
> Nancy
> 
>  
> 
> Nancy J. Selover
> Asst. State Climatologist
> Office of Climatology tel: 480-965-0580
> Arizona State University fax: 480-965-1473
> Tempe, AZ 85287-1508 e-mail: address@hidden
> 
>

Attachment: 20030723_upa.gem
Description: Binary data

Attachment: tus.dat
Description: MPEG movie