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Re: TAMDAR data

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  • Subject: Re: TAMDAR data
  • Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 13:25:07 -0500 (CDT)
Ok, I can see the same profile as the image you supplied.  I was
looking for TAMDAR profiles originating from CMI, BMI, and PIA in IL
between 11z and 18z today and not seeing any.  Since each of those
airports should have have a couple TAMDAR flights, I got worried that
there might be a decoding problem.

-Eric

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Eric Nelson  - Weather Data Manager 

College of Dupage Meteorology Dept. 
http://weather.cod.edu              
address@hidden 

I reject your reality and substitute my own! -Adam Savage

On 1 Sep 2005, Steve Chiswell wrote:

> Eric,
> 
> I am able to plot moisture profiles from the files being decoded by
> dcacars (5.8.3a) both using nsharp and acprof (the version of snprof I
> provide that uses the ship format surface files). Ensure you are using
> the latest version to keep up with the change in format of the NetCDF
> files!
> 
> For example, a 1200-1259Z plot around San Antonio produces the attached
> plot.
> 
> Since the NetCDF files have several different possibilities for a
> moisture sensor, there are several attempts made to determine a dewpoint
> temperature depending on what id provided. If you can provide me
> with a specific aircraft ID and time I can check the data stream to
> verify that specific instances of rh, mixr, tmpc, vapor pressure, etc
> are being checked.
> 
> Note that you can list the data with SFLIST to verify the data being
> decoded for specific aircraft.
> 
> Steve Chiswell
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 10:36, Eric Nelson wrote:
> > Is anyone using NSHARP to view TAMDAR aicraft data?  I'm seeing flights
> > into/out of airports that should be TAMDAR aircraft, but I don't see the
> > moisture profile that should be available from the TAMDAR reports.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > -Eric
> > 
> > --
> > Eric Nelson  - Weather Data Manager 
> > 
> > College of Dupage Meteorology Dept. 
> > http://weather.cod.edu              
> > address@hidden 
> > 
> > I reject your reality and substitute my own! -Adam Savage
>