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

[Janine Goldstein]

Thanks to those who responded.  It turns out that stationIDs can be up 
to 8 chars in length, but must begin with a char and must be comprised 
entirely of capital letters and/or the digits 0-9.

So my stationID 16980603 begins with a 1. Changing that to a char fixes it.

Janine

Stephen Sinnis wrote:
> 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
> F. 905.829.5800 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gembud at unidata.ucar.edu [mailto:owner-gembud at unidata.ucar.edu]
> On Behalf Of Janine Goldstein
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 6:34 PM
> To: gembud at unidata.ucar.edu
> 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
>
>