Re: [Data-curation] SA formatted messages from Canada in FM 15 METAR designated WMO headers?

• To: daryl herzmann <akrherz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [Data-curation] SA formatted messages from Canada in FM 15 METAR designated WMO headers?
• From: Stephen Adams <sadams@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 12:02:04 -0500

Daryl,

The SA code was the precursor to METAR. SA stands for Surface Airways I
believe. Why the Canadians are so insistent about continuing to output data
in this outdated format, I can't say. The old WXP decoder "sacvt" can
decode this format.

Steve
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On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 11:26 AM, daryl herzmann <akrherz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> In today's adventure of curiousity killing the cat, I wonder about the
> following product:
>
> SACN90 CWAO 151600 RRA
> WFF SA 1600 AUTO8 M M M 087/18/14/1813+19/M/     PK WND 1920 1510Z 3004
> 90MM=
> WFP SA 1600 AUTO8 M M M 128/10/09/0902/M/0008 2009 86MM=
>
> So for the TTAAII header of "SACN90", it seems that the usage of 'SA'
> should dictate FM 15 (METAR) format as per:
>
> http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/ois/Operational_Informatio
> n/Publications/WMO_386/AHLsymbols/TableB1.html
>
> Is this "SA" format some variation on METAR documented somewhere or is the
> WMO header just wrong for this product?
>
> thanks for educating me!
> daryl
>
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