Re: New Ticket - [netCDFDecoders !LHS-404645]: metar decoder and european reports

• To: "pepo@xxxxxx" <support-netcdf-decoders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: New Ticket - [netCDFDecoders !LHS-404645]: metar decoder and european reports
• From: Robb Kambic <rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:00:33 -0700 (MST)

Jose,

i made a small change in the decoder and the LEPA reports decoded
correctly without errors. i will attached the new metar2nc to this
message.

> The visibility group recently changed to allow new formats.
> VVVV VVVVD VVVVNDV

my 306 manual on codes is over 10 years old so i don't know what this
format means. could you explain it.

thanks,
robb...


On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, pepo@xxxxxx wrote:

> New Ticket: metar decoder and european reports
>
> Hi,
>
> I enclose a sample of the metar reports we distribute over WMO
> links here in Spain. I have noticed the following:
> -The very first station in a bulletin is always disregarded.
> -Visinility group VVVV is never decoded.
>   This group always comes after
>   Min/Max Wind DIR s# (\d{3})V(\d{3}) # # )
>
> The visibility group recently changed to allow new formats.
> VVVV VVVVD VVVVNDV
>
> I just want you to be aware of these differences if you want
> to keep the metar netcdf decoder universally usable.
>
> Can you help me with this error?
> Opening data/Surface_METAR_20060321_0000.nc with ncid 3
> perl/netCDF record variable size mismatch at
> /export/home/metar/bin/metar2nc line 562, <STDIN> chunk 1.
> NetCDF::recput status = -1
> data/Surface_METAR_20060321_0000.nc
> METAR LEPA 210900Z 36002KT 9999 FEW020 05/04 Q1015 NOSIG
>
> Running on sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R
> Forte SUN compiler collection 7
> decoders-4.1.0
> netcdf-3.6.1
> netcdf-perl-1.2.3
> udunits-1.12.4
>
> P3p0
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> Jose Juega                         Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia
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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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