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20000202: profiler pressure values

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  • Subject: 20000202: profiler pressure values
  • Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 08:32:41 -0700
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Hongming-

Tom is out for the day.

>          I want to know if the pressure value at different level was
>decoded in PROFTOMD. The reason is I couldn't find these pressure
>information in decoded MD file. Do you think the PROFTOMD program keep
>these information or the source NetCDF file doesn't cover these pressure
>information.

The pressure is only reported at the surface (as is temperature, dewpoint,
and precip). Above the surface, wind values are reported in height 
above ground level.

Don Murray
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