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20001211: how do I get sfcntr to work?



David,

The value for WEIGHT is probably so small that almost no stations
are being included. Try a value between 20 and 50 (as in SEARCH).

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support

>From: David Ovens <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200012112212.eBBMCIo07731

>Hello,
>
>I've tried running sfcntr with the following and all I get are the
>TMPF numbers and a couple of very short line segments sprinkled around
>the plot:
>
> AREA     = 45.25;-125;50;-119
> GAREA    = 45.25;-125;50;-119
> SATFIL   =  
> RADFIL   =  
> SFPARM   = tmpf
> DATTIM   = 21
> SFFILE   = $GEMDATA/surface/latest/sao.gem
> COLORS   = 32;7;0;32
> MAP      = 8
> LATLON   = 0
> TITLE    = 0
> CLEAR    = y
> PANEL    = 0
> DEVICE   = xw
> PROJ     = mer
> FILTER   = 0
> TEXT     = small/3//hw
> LUTFIL   =  
> STNPLT   =  
> CLRBAR   = 1/V/LL/.9;.1/.75;.05
> CNTRPRM  = tmpf
> GAMMA    = 0.3
> WEIGHT   = 1
> LINE     = 32/1/1/0
> CONTUR   = 0
> NPASS    = 2
> CINT     = 3
>
>Am I doing something wrong or does sfcntr not work?  It is practically
>not described in the NAWIPS 5.6 User's Guide and the "help" function
>since it basically just describes sfmap.
>
>Do you have any example scripts that work that I could test?
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>
>David
>-- 
>
>David Ovens            e-mail: address@hidden
>(206) 685-8108          plan: Real-time MM5 forecasting for Pacific Northwest
>Research Meteorologist
>Dept of Atmospheric Sciences, Box 351640
>University of Washington 
>Seattle, WA  98195
>