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20050404: gempak's namsnd

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  • Subject: 20050404: gempak's namsnd
  • Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 13:14:22 -0600
Dorothy,

The files reportedly have a different format than the files
that the namsnd program was written for:

http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/getfile?file=/content/support/help/MailArchives/gembud-list/msg01005.html

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support


>From: Dorothy Durnford <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200504041727.j34HRRv2011454

>Hi Steve,
>
>    I'm trying to use the 5.7.4 gempak program "namsnd" on North 
>American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) MOLTS soundings, available by 
>anonymous ftp from nomad7.ncep.noaa.gov (see instructions at 
>http://wwwt.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/rreanl/).  They're in BUFR format. 
> When I run namsnd on one of the files, with snoutf and sfoutf both 
>blank, I'm told that the latitude is missing, and no bufr_table.dump 
>file is produced.  I asked the NARR webmaster whether the MOLTS 
>soundings are in Jack Woollen format, but he didn't know.  Any comment?
>
>Dorothy.
>
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