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Most of the 'SA' that I have looked at appear to be part of an agricultural network in the Canadian heartland. For gempak users, dcmetr handles these fine also. On 08/15/2017 11:02 AM, Stephen Adams wrote:
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 Why the Canadians are so insistent about continuing to output data in this outdated format, I can't say.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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen D. Adams Vice President - Research and Development AWIS Weather Services, Inc. 1735 East University Drive, Suite 101 Auburn, AL 36830-5204 Website: http://www.awis.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AWISWeatherServices email: sadams@xxxxxxxx <mailto:sadams@xxxxxxxx> Phone: (334) 826-2149 ext 1003 Toll-free: (888) 798-9955 ext 1003 Toll-free Fax: (888) 374-8027 ---------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 11:26 AM, daryl herzmann <akrherz@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto: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_Information/Publications/WMO_386/AHLsymbols/TableB1.html <http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/ois/Operational_Information/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 _______________________________________________ NOTE: All exchanges posted to Unidata maintained email lists are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and made publicly available through the web. Users who post to any of the lists we maintain are reminded to remove any personal information that they do not want to be made public. Data-curation mailing list Data-curation@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Data-curation@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> For list information, to unsubscribe, or change your membership options, visit: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/ <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/> _______________________________________________ NOTE: All exchanges posted to Unidata maintained email lists are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and made publicly available through the web. Users who post to any of the lists we maintain are reminded to remove any personal information that they do not want to be made public. Data-curation mailing list Data-curation@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For list information, to unsubscribe, or change your membership options, visit: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/
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