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[IDV #EHE-931505]: Problem with units when loading text data

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  • Subject: [IDV #EHE-931505]: Problem with units when loading text data
  • Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:05:35 -0600
> I ran into a problem with the units of data when I was doing the text
> point data exercise in the workshop:
> 
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/release/nightly/docs/workshop/datadisplays/point/TextPointData.html
> 
> If I load in the data as in exercise 3.7.0 in the workshop:
> 
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/release/nightly/docs/workshop/datadisplays/point/SurfaceDataLoading.html
> 
> everything displays fine.  If I then clear all displays and data and run
> through the text point data exercise in the first link, the temperatures
> come out with the wrong units.  It seems to be reading them as Kelvin,
> not Celsius.
> 
> Also, I just noticed that in this exercise, the line:
> 
> Create the Point Data Plot and change its layout model to "METAR"
> 
> should be:
> 
> Create the Point Data Plot and change its layout model to
> "Observations>METAR"
> 
> Don
> --
> Don Murray
> NOAA/ESRL/PSD and CIRES
> 303-497-3596
> http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/people/don.murray/

Don,
    I checked in the fix and submit another nightly build, please test the 
result.

Thanks,

Yuan
> 
> 


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: EHE-931505
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed