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[IDV #WRY-586577]: IDV - Error loading MADIS METARS

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  • Subject: [IDV #WRY-586577]: IDV - Error loading MADIS METARS
  • Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 07:29:48 -0700
Hey Bill-
 
> Our support for netCDF point observations files is limited at the
> moment and you've uncovered one of the limitations.  There's some
> work being done by the netCDF-Java folks to provide better support,
> but that's a slow process.  When you read in the data source, it just
> reads the metadata and says - hey, I know how to handle this!  But
> the error is occurring when it actually tries to read in the data.
> For some reason, the station information is coming up as null.   This
> worked at some point, but I guess we haven't tested in a while.  The
> person who knows this data best is out until next week, so I might
> not have a solution until then.

It turns out that the pointers in the file are bad.  The number of
stations has exceeded the max number of stations allowed so we were
coming up with unknown stations.  GSD is going to fix the problem 
on Monday, but for now we've put in a fix for the IDV which will 
skip over these bad records.  However, that will mean that there
is missing data (hopefully not the data you want).  The fix is
in our nightly build which you can download from the IDV download
page.  It's fairly stable at the moment, but let us know if
you find any problems.

Don

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: WRY-586577
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open