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Hello, I'm having some trouble with xcd and it's decoding some surface stations. The two gif files attached show this problem. One station, PRC, is fine, but the other, TUS, is mainly not. Most values are missing or incorrect. I see this kind of thing on most of the larger reporting stations in the US. It appears that these stations are also synoptic stations. My guess is that stations that have both metar and synoptic reports are getting corrupted. Ideas? Other than this, the xcd decoding seems to work ok. Thanks for any help. Mike Leuthold Atmospheric Sciences/Institute of Atmospheric Physics University of Arizona address@hidden 520-621-2863 >From address@hidden Wed Jul 28 12:28:34 1999 Ignore the following....it looks like I fixed it by reinitializing the schemas. Mike On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Mike Leuthold wrote: > Hello, > I'm having some trouble with xcd and it's decoding some surface > stations. The two gif files attached show this problem. One station, > PRC, is fine, but the other, TUS, is mainly not. Most values are missing > or incorrect. I see this kind of thing on most of the larger reporting > stations in the US. It appears that these stations are also synoptic > stations. My guess is that stations that have both metar and synoptic > reports are getting corrupted. Ideas? Other than this, the xcd decoding > seems to work ok. Thanks for any help. > > Mike Leuthold Atmospheric Sciences/Institute of Atmospheric Physics University of Arizona address@hidden 520-621-2863