20050517: the New Zealand upper air problem

Paul,

The station shown below "93112" aka NZWP is being decoded and stored in the 
GEMPAK
upper air data files. Your area syntax is incorrect. To specify the AREA as all
stations from New Zealand, you need: AREA = @nz:c
You omitted the ":c".

The question Christian Page has was unrelated. It was that certain French 
soundings
were not being uplinked to NOAAPORT, even though the NWS stated in their routing
tables for GTS that they would be.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support





>From: Paul Ruscher <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200505171648.j4HGmVP3011953

>Hi - I have discovered that indeed our LDM is processing New Zealand 
>upper air data but it is not getting into gempak.  I can't figure out 
>why not.  I seem to remember Christian Pagé at UQAM had a similar query 
>in the past but I don't recall seeing the resolution of this.  The 
>format looks fine to me from our raw_obs directory.  Steve Worley and I 
>had a discussion about this last night, too, so it prompted me to check 
>further.
>
>Can you confirm proper gempak display of NZ upper air data so that I may 
>investigate further?
>
>Here is some of the information from our site at FSU:
>
>header dump:
>
>2005051700.rdisnd:USNZ02 NZKL 170000
>2005051700.rdisnd:UKNZ02 NZKL 170000
>2005051700.rdisnd:ULNZ02 NZKL 170000
>2005051700.rdisnd:UENZ02 NZKL 170000
>2005051700.rdisnd:USNZ02 NZKL 170000 RRA
>2005051700.rdisnd:UKNZ02 NZKL 170000 RRA
>2005051700.rdisnd:ULNZ02 NZKL 170000 RRA
>2005051700.rdisnd:UENZ02 NZKL 170000 RRA
>
>data dump:
>
>167
>USNZ02 NZKL 170000
>TTAA 6623/ 93112
>99006 16408 10002 00080 15811 92741 14211 85451 09433 70040 00632
>50566 15536 40731 26358 30933 39176 25057 441// 20203 569// 15381
>619// 10631 633// 88174 627// 31313 46108 82230=
>
>gempak dump:
>
>atmos.ruscher> snlist
> SNFILE    Sounding data file                uair
> AREA      Data area                         @nz
> DATTIM    Date/time                         00
> SNPARM    Sounding parameter list           tmpc;dpdc;drct;sknt
> STNDEX    Stability indices                 SHOW
> LEVELS    Vertical levels                   500
> VCOORD    Vertical coordinate type          pres
> OUTPUT    Output device/filename            T
> MRGDAT    Merge data file flag/part type    YES
> Parameters requested: 
>SNFILE,AREA,DATTIM,SNPARM,STNDEX,LEVELS,VCOORD,OUTPUT,
> MRGDAT.
> GEMPAK-SNLIST>r
> [SNLIST -9]  No stations reported at these times.
> Parameters requested: 
>SNFILE,AREA,DATTIM,SNPARM,STNDEX,LEVELS,VCOORD,OUTPUT,
> MRGDAT.
>
>
>gempak dump for Australia:
>
> SNPARM = 
>PRES;TMPC;DPDC;DRCT;SKNT                                             
>
> STID = NTAT          STNM =    91954   TIME = 050517/0000        
> SLAT = -23.35     SLON =  -149.48   SELV =     3.0
> STIM =  2300
>
>      PRES     TMPC     DPDC     DRCT     SKNT
>    500.00   -10.90    19.00   290.00    31.08
>
> STID =               STNM =    91958   TIME = 050517/0000        
> SLAT = -27.61     SLON =  -144.33   SELV =     2.0
> STIM =     0
>
>      PRES     TMPC     DPDC     DRCT     SKNT
>    500.00   -11.30     2.40   305.00    33.02
>
> STID = YPDN          STNM =    94120   TIME = 050517/0000        
> SLAT = -12.41     SLON =   130.88   SELV =    30.0
> STIM =  2300
>
>      PRES     TMPC     DPDC     DRCT     SKNT
>    500.00    -4.30    49.00   220.00     6.02
>
> STID = YDGV          STNM =    94150   TIME = 050517/0000        
> SLAT = -12.28     SLON =   136.81   SELV =    53.0
> STIM =  2300
>
>      PRES     TMPC     DPDC     DRCT     SKNT
>    500.00    -5.30    17.00   285.00    27.00
>
>... snip ...
>
>Our pqact.conf file is the default Unidata configuration for upper air 
>data.  Thanks for any advice, as I'd love to fill in this whole in our 
>global raob coverage if we can!  Paul
>
>
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