unit conversions in METAR decoder

[Robb Kambic]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Keith Brewster wrote:

> I was testing my updated NetCDF METAR reader code using some recent
> datafiles (most recent being Aug 11, 2006)  from the THREDDS catalog, and I
> notice there have been some changes in the data since I last worked on
> reader for this type of file.   I have accommodated those changes, some of
> which addressed issues I mentioned last time I was trying this (March of
> 2005).  However I have a problem with how the winds are handled.  The winds
> in kts seem to being converted to m/s and rounded to integer values (but
> stored as real numbers).  If we want to accurately recover the original
> value in integer kts (thus accurately represented the original report), it
> would be helpful to calculated and store them with precision of one decimal
> place.  Previously there had been an issue with the constant being used, it
> should be m/s=kts*0.514444
>

Keith,

i don't know why i thought the wind values need to be integers. anyway, i
am now storing the values as float. tomorrows data files should be
correct.

robb...


>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Keith
>
>

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