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20050519: Gempak - adding surface parameters

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  • Subject: 20050519: Gempak - adding surface parameters
  • Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 13:43:34 -0600
>From: "Thomas Milewski" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200505191921.j4JJL0Km015924

>Institution: McGill University
>Package Version: 5.7.4
>Operating System: Unix
>Hardware Information: fast enough
>Inquiry: I'm trying to produce a meteogram (sfgram) including latent/sensible 
> heat fluxes but those parameters are not included in sfparm. How can I add th
> em?
>
>
>

Thomas,

Your data set would have to provide those measurements and store them in the 
file. 
This is not a parameter that decoded from a standard metar report.

The sensible and latent heat fluxes (FXSH and FXLH) are provided in the RUC 
grid #252 and NAM grid #212 grids available through CONDUIT, and could be 
interpolated to
station locations using the gdgsfc program.

Steve Chiswell
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