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Hi. My first suggestion would be to look at the "3.6 Point Observations" section of the IDV workshop http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/docs/workshop/page_pointobservations.html Let us know if you do not find a solution to your concern therein. Thanks. -Julien > Full Name: So-Young Ha > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: MMM/NCAR > Package Version: 2.9u1 build date:2010-09-02 19:36 UTC > Operating System: Mac OS X > Hardware: Java: home: > /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home version: > 1.6.0_20 j3d:1.5.2 fcs (build4) > Description of problem: I'm trying to make a plot of NOAA MADIS data for > METAR station observations. > Preferably, I'd like to draw the station model plots (i.e., w/ weather > symbols) for the surface analysis. > Is the station model plot supported by IDV? > I had no problem reading metar observations from the netcdf-format MADIS data > in IDV, but cannot find an option for station plots except value plots. > Thanks, > 1 > > ****************** > Stack trace: > java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 1 > at au.gov.bom.aifs.osa.analysis.Barnes.point2grid(Barnes.java:117) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.PointObFactory.barnesOneTime(PointObFactory.java:2547) > at ucar.unidata.data.point.PointObFactory.barnes(PointObFactory.java:2258) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.PointDataSource.getDataInner(PointDataSource.java:1229) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataSourceImpl.getData(DataSourceImpl.java:2238) > at ucar.unidata.data.DirectDataChoice.getData(DirectDataChoice.java:332) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataChoice.getData(DataChoice.java:637) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataInstance.getData(DataInstance.java:243) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataInstance.getData(DataInstance.java:207) > at ucar.unidata.data.grid.GridDataInstance.init(GridDataInstance.java:200) > at ucar.unidata.data.grid.GridDataInstance.<init>(GridDataInstance.java:157) > at ucar.unidata.data.grid.GridDataInstance.<init>(GridDataInstance.java:138) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.PlanViewControl.doMakeDataInstance(PlanViewControl.java:1361) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.DisplayControlImpl.initializeDataInstance(DisplayControlImpl.java:3084) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.DisplayControlImpl.setData(DisplayControlImpl.java:3066) > at ucar.unidata.idv.control.PlanViewControl.setData(PlanViewControl.java:586) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.ContourPlanViewControl.setData(ContourPlanViewControl.java:214) > at ucar.unidata.idv.control.PlanViewControl.init(PlanViewControl.java:437) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.DisplayControlImpl.init(DisplayControlImpl.java:1333) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.DisplayControlImpl.init(DisplayControlImpl.java:1034) > at ucar.unidata.idv.ControlDescriptor.initControl(ControlDescriptor.java:986) > at ucar.unidata.idv.ControlDescriptor$1.run(ControlDescriptor.java:911) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1090) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: XQW-238455 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed