Re: dcmetr: incorrect behavior?

Christian,

Yes, it was, and has also been adopted into the core release at NCEP for
the 5.10.4 release.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support


On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 13:29 +0200, Christian Pagé wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> Was this modified version included in the latest GEMPAK release ?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Christian
> 
> 2007/5/2, Steve Chiswell <address@hidden>:
>         Christan,
>         
>         The routine that converts the metar weather phenomenon group
>         into the 
>         numeric value for storage is $GEMLIB/pt/ptwnmt.f.
>         
>         The problem you see for the compound weather groups where up
>         to 3
>         precipitation types can be coded is that the matchging of the
>         first
>         group removes the
>         +/- character from further processing.
>         
>         I have posted a modified copy of the source for this routine
>         as:
>         
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/gempak/nawips-5.10.2/source/ptwnmt.f
>         
>         I have tested back and forth through the testpt interface, but
>         still
>         have to make sure that there aren't any negative impacts to
>         realtime
>         decoding.
>         
>         Steve Chiswell
>         Unidata User Support
>         
>         On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 14:25 +0200, Christian Pagé wrote:
>         > Hello all,
>         >
>         > As I have received no input from my report of problems in
>         dcmetr, I
>         > resend the email in case I would receive some input this
>         time. 
>         >
>         > Thanks!
>         >
>         > Christian Pagé
>         > UQAM
>         >
>         > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>         > From: Christian Pagé <address@hidden>
>         > Date: 16 avr. 2007 23:18
>         > Subject: dcmetr: incorrect behavior?
>         > To: address@hidden
>         >
>         > Hello all,
>         >
>         > I have noticed that there seems to be a problem in the
>         dcmetr decoder. 
>         > For combined precip types, incorrect intensities are
>         reported.
>         >
>         > By example, for this report (April 3rd, 2007):
>         > CYRJ 031851Z 12008KT 10SM -RAPL OVC002 RMK ST8 VIS S-SW 2BR
>         >
>         > The dcmetr decoder stores, in the WMO current weather, an
>         incorrect 
>         > intensity for the ice pellets precip type. It reports light
>         rain and
>         > moderate ice pellets, instead of light rain and light ice
>         pellets.
>         > This also happens for triple precip types, such as -RAPLSN.
>         >
>         > Christian Pagé
>         > UQAM
>         --
>         Steve Chiswell <address@hidden>
>         Unidata
> 
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Steve Chiswell <address@hidden>
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