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>From: "Frank Colby" <address@hidden> >Organization: UMass Lowell >Keywords: 200008311313.e7VDD6N28108 >Dear Support, > >Thanks for the help you have given me on pqact/ldmd patterns. I seem to >be getting everything I need, for the most part. The ECMWF comes in >with only 3 parameters decoded: 850 temp, pmsl and 500 hght, with one >ave_hght at 500 for the last part of the forecast. Is this all I'm >supposed to be getting? > >Frank > > Frank, These are all the parameters that ECMWF is providing on the global grid. Additionally, they provide 850 and 200mb winds on the tropical (35S to 35N grid). Steve Chiswell