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[IDV #XEH-588780]: Difficulty loading RAOB soundings

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  • Subject: [IDV #XEH-588780]: Difficulty loading RAOB soundings
  • Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:46:41 -0600
Hi Alexander-

> Full Name: Alexander Hassiotis
> Email Address: address@hidden
> Organization: Penn State University
> Package Version:
> Operating System:
> Hardware:
> Description of problem: Hi,
> 
> I've attempted to load archived RAOB soundings from: 
> http://raob.fsl.noaa.gov/ using Soundings:Local.
> 
> The soundings are available in various formats: FSL (text), FAA604, NetCDF 
> (binary)

The netCDF version should work.

> Unfortunately none of these formats seem to be recognized by the IDV. An 
> example of the FSL format can be found here: 
> http://raob.fsl.noaa.gov/temp/raob_soundings29981.tmp
> 
> Is there a way or workaround to load one of these formats?

Are you trying to load these through the Files chooser or the RAOB chooser?  
You'll
need to use the RAOB files chooser, not the generic files chooser.  That's the 
only
one that knows how to read and make sense of the data for plotting skew-t's etc.

If that still doesn't work, please provide a (small) sample file.

Don Murray

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: XEH-588780
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open