New Ticket - [netCDFDecoders !YUU-262958]: ua2nc bug

[Robb Kambic]

Ryan,

the problem was the bulletin came in on same day so it was filed into the
0th hour for that day. i added some code to file the bulletin into the
next day 0th hour. the ua2nc code is attached, could you test it out
for any problems.

robb...




On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Ryan Torn wrote:

> New Ticket: ua2nc bug
>
> I think I have found a fairly major bug in the decoder ua2nc.  The
> report time on Chinese rawinsonde observations at 00UTC are typically
> marked as 23 UTC on the previous day.  For example, the 00 UTC
> rawinsonde observation for the 7th has a report time of 23 UTC on the
> 6th.  When this report is fed through the ua2nc decoder, the program
> thinks the time is 00 UTC on the 6th because the program rounds up the
> hour, but cannot round up the day.   This error caused me to assimilate
> observations from the wrong time over China.  Could you please come up
> with a solution to this problem?  I have enclosed a Chinese rawinsonde
> observation as an example
>
> Ryan
>
> TTAA  03231 52203 99928 16662 00000 00103 ///// ///// 92768 20071 000^M^M
> 00 85501 20880 11505 70140 07663 25007 50580 12390 29512 40746 25128 ^M^M
> 27015 30949 41559 28022 25069 52358 28025 20213 53159 28025 15398 ^M^M
> 54963 29035 10653 599// 31024 88228 54558 28527 88109 601// 30026 ^M^M
> 77156 28535=^M^M
>
> --
> Ryan Torn
> Graduate Research Assistant
> Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences
> University of Washington, Box 351640
> Seattle, WA 98195
> Phone 206-685-1851
>
>
>

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Robb Kambic        			   Unidata Program Center
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