RE: Help with error: [SFEDIT 2] Station cannot be added to the fi le

• To: Janine Goldstein <janine@xxxxxxxx>, gembud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: RE: Help with error: [SFEDIT 2] Station cannot be added to the fi le
• From: Stephen Sinnis <ssinnis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:40:33 -0500

Hi Janine.


I made two changes and successfully imported and listed your data:

GEMPAK-SFCFIL>l
SFOUTF   = 20020612.sfc
SFPRMF   = P01M/0.0-300.0-0.01
STNFIL   = stationCD.fil
SHIPFL   = NO
TIMSTN   = 24/5
SFFSRC   = metr
GEMPAK-SFCFIL>r

SFCFIL PARAMETERS:

New surface file:      20020612.sfc
Parameter file:        P01M/0.0-300.0-0.01
Station file:
Number of stations in STNFIL:       1
Number of additional stations:      5
Total number of stations:           6
Total number of times:             24

This file will be a standard surface file.

Enter <cr> to accept parameters or type EXIT:
The file has been created.
Parameters requested: SFOUTF,SFPRMF,STNFIL,SHIPFL,TIMSTN,SFFSRC.

GEMPAK-SFEDIT>l
SFEFIL   = 20020612.txt
SFFILE   = 20020612.sfc
GEMPAK-SFEDIT>r

SFEDIT PARAMETERS:

Edit file:           20020612.txt
Output surface file: 20020612.sfc

Parameters to be added to file:

P01M
Enter <cr> to accept parameters or type EXIT:
Parameters requested: SFEFIL,SFFILE.

 GEMPAK-SFLIST>l
SFFILE   = 20020612.sfc
AREA     = dset
DATTIM   = all
SFPARM   = dset
OUTPUT   = T
IDNTYP   = STID
GEMPAK-SFLIST>r
PARM = P01M

   STN    YYMMDD/HHMM      P01M
          020612/0000      0.00
          020612/0100      0.00
          020612/0200      0.00
          020612/0300      0.00
          020612/0400      0.00
          020612/0500      0.00
          020612/0600      0.00
          020612/0700      0.00
          020612/0800      0.00
          020612/0900      0.00
          020612/1000      0.00
          020612/1100      0.00
          020612/1200      0.00
          020612/1300      0.00
          020612/1400      0.00
          020612/1500      0.00
          020612/1600      0.00
          020612/1700      0.00
          020612/1800      0.00
          020612/1900      0.00
          020612/2000      0.00
          020612/2100      0.00
          020612/2200      0.00
          020612/2300      0.00



Stephen Sinnis
Pelmorex Media Inc
T. 905.829.1159 x1379

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gembud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gembud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Janine Goldstein
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 6:34 PM
To: gembud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Help with error: [SFEDIT 2] Station cannot be added to the file

Hi all,

I am stumped.  I have a very simple (one station) test case that I can't get
to run.  I run sfcfil and then sfedit, and get the above error.

My station file, stationCD.fil, contains a single line:

>16980603 999999 TEST                             -- US  3210  -9170    24

My data file, 20020612.txt, contains 24 hourly values:

>PARM = P01M
>
>STN      YYMMDD/HHMM    P01M
>16980603 020612/0000    0.00
>16980603 020612/0100    0.00
>16980603 020612/0200    0.00
>16980603 020612/0300    0.00
>.
>.
>.
>16980603 020612/2300    0.00

I run sfcfil with the following options:
> SFOUTF   = 20020612.sfc
> SFPRMF   = P01M
> STNFIL   = stationCD.fil
>SHIPFL   = no
>TIMSTN   = 24/0
>SFFSRC   = 20020612.txt

and get

> SFCFIL PARAMETERS:
>

> New surface file: 20020612.sfc > Parameter file: P01M > Station file: > Number of stations in STNFIL: 1

> Number of additional stations:      0
> Total number of stations:           1
> Total number of times:             24
>
> This file will be a standard surface file.
>
>Enter <cr> to accept parameters or type EXIT:
> The file has been created.
> Parameters requested: SFOUTF,SFPRMF,STNFIL,SHIPFL,TIMSTN,SFFSRC.

Then I run sfedit and get:
> SFEFIL   = 20020612.txt
> SFFILE   = 20020612.sfc
> GEMPAK-SFEDIT>run
>
> SFEDIT PARAMETERS:
>

> Edit file: 20020612.txt > Output surface file: 20020612.sfc >

> Parameters to be added to file:

>
> P01M
>Enter <cr> to accept parameters or type EXIT:
> [SFEDIT 2]  Station 16980603 cannot be added to the file.
>.
>.
>. (24 times)
> Parameters requested: SFEFIL,SFFILE.

What am  I missing?????

Thanks in advance,

Janine Goldstein
NCAR/EOL

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