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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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