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Hi Alex- > I did try the RAOB chooser initially with the Soundings:Local tab. > The sounding file format is listed as NetCDF when you download it but > has a .cdf extension. I've attached the file. The error message is: > > Reading sounding:J:\laser\s0\adh180\RAOB\raob_soundings20216.cdf > Unable to find station id variable Sorry, my bad. I thought I had fixed this a while back to support the FSL (now GSD) formatted soundings, but see that I never did. The nightly build now supports this format if you want to give that a try: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/idv/nightly Thanks for pointing this out. Don > At 12:46 PM 6/25/2008 -0600, you wrote: > >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 > >=================== > >Ticket ID: XEH-588780 > >Department: Support IDV > >Priority: Normal > >Status: Open > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: XEH-588780 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open