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[GEMPAK #RIA-330971]: Ship position rounding via dcmsfc

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  • Subject: [GEMPAK #RIA-330971]: Ship position rounding via dcmsfc
  • Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 13:10:42 -0600
> OK. Interesting indeed. Anywhere to go from here? Do we have an upstream
> contact available.

I don't know who exactly to recommend you talk to.  NWS is responsible for 
disseminating these observations but the SYNOP data format standard is why we 
only have coordinate resolution to 0.01 degree resolution:

http://weather.unisys.com/wxp/Appendices/Formats/SYNOP.html

-Michael

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: RIA-330971
Department: Support GEMPAK
Priority: High
Status: Open