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20041117 : Local research sounding in Gempak

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  • Subject: 20041117 : Local research sounding in Gempak
  • Date: 17 Nov 2004 10:18:43 -0700
Larry, FYI...

The current version of NSHARP (which supports looping 5.7.2 and later) 
uses the GEMPAK LLMXLV array size (currently 500 levels). 

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support




On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 08:31, Larry D. Oolman wrote:
> The array size for the data in nsharp is only 200 levels.
> I counted 288 levels in your data.
> 
> Nancy Selover wrote:
> > I have a local sounding which has pressure, height, temperature, and 
> > dewpoint for a single location, single time.  I have put the ASCII file 
> > into the format for SNFIL, with the lat, long, elevation, dattime, etc., 
> > and run snedit to generate a gempak SNFILE.  It all seems to work okay, 
> > but NSHARP crashes when I select the sounding.  It has no error 
> > message.  Here are the two files:  pnnTsnd.txt is the ASCII SNFIL, and 
> > pnnTsnd.gem is the converted gempak SNFILE.  When I run SNLIST on it, it 
> > all appears to be correct.
> > 
> > <<pnnTsnd.txt>> <<pnnTsnd.gem>>
> > 
> > Any suggestions about why NSHARP crashes?
> > 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
> > 
>