On 9/15/2010 10:58 PM, Michael Heir wrote:
John,
I am hoping you can assist me with a problem I am having. If you
are not the correct person, please let me know who I should
contact. This email may seem long, but the problem I'm describing
is relatively straightfoward.
I am attempting to decode BUFR files located:
ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/SL.us008001/DC.avspt/DS.zgairmet/PT.bin_DF.buf/
The latest NetCDF 4.2 library works, and I am able to decode
everything I need except for some time/date values in the file.
For instance, doing an XML Dump of the data, I see
<struct name="struct2" count="0">
<data name="Year" bufr="0-4-1">2010 </data>
<data name="Month" bufr="0-4-2">7 </data>
<data name="Day" bufr="0-4-3">7 </data>
<data name="Hour" bufr="0-4-4">7 </data>
<data name="Minute" bufr="0-4-5">7 </data>
</struct>
As you can see, the Year is correct, but "7"s exist for all other
values of the date. This pattern repeats many times in the file,
and also repeats for every file I've tried to read.
There are two timestamps at the beginning of the XML Dump that
appear correct. The first looks like the issue time of the file.
I think the timestamps that are marked with "7"s are actually
supposed to indicate the valid-time of the data it is associated
with.
Could this be a bug in the library?
Thanks for any assistance. It is greatly appreciated.
-Mike
Hi Mike:
Latest 4.2 release (4.2.20100917.2021) should fix this. Please let me know if you see
any other problems. Thanks for reporting.
John
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