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Re: 20000928: plotting out over atlantic ocean (fwd)


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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:58:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Darrell Bryan Ensley <address@hidden>
To: Steve Chiswell <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: 20000928: plotting out over atlantic ocean


Steve,

Thanks! As it turns out, I've gone through everything before your 
email and got it to work...the longitudes were set correctly, 
but the columns in my .tbl file were off a bit. I had even set 
SFPARM=SLAT;SLON and found that GEMPAK wasnt' reading my lat/lons
from my .tbl file correctly. I went back and formatted my .tbl file 
to sfstns.tbl (can't go wrong with the "official" format, right?).

all's well that ends well, i guess. Thanks again!

Darrell

On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Steve Chiswell wrote:

> Darrell,
> 
> I plot tropical storm tracks over the Atlantic, such as are shown at:
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/chiz/storm/tropic/atlantic.gif
> 
> You might need to make sure your longitudes are West=negative.
> 
> A quick check to make sure your stations have the expected lats/lons
> is to use SFPARM=slat;slon in sflist. If your station table is off a column,
> or not using the appropriate sign convention for longitude, etc, then that
> should be evident.
> 
> If you continue to have problems, then feel free to send
> a sample of your station table, sfedit data, and parameters you
> are using for sfmap and I'll look at what you are doing.
> 
> Steve Chiswell
> Unidata User Support
> 
> 
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Darrell Bryan Ensley wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'm trying to plot hurricane tracks and individual 
> > forecast positions (by lat/lon) over the central 
> > atlantic ocean. I created a surface table (.tbl) 
> > with my made-up station id's, lats, lons, etc, just 
> > like a regular .tbl file. I created an input SFEFIL 
> > (text) file for SFEDIT...no problem here.
> > 
> > The surface file seems to have been created fine.
> > SFLIST shows that the SFFILE has the right information.
> > 
> > My problem is that GEMPAK won't seem to plot my station 
> > data out over the central atlantic. 
> > 
> > A friend of mine told me he had the same problem earlier.
> > 
> > Does anybody have any insights/ideas/suggestions/solutions?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Darrell
> > 
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Darrell Bryan Ensley         <address@hidden>      
> > Mesoscale Dynamics Lab          5703 Windlestraw Dr.
> > Rm 135, Research III            Apartment 37
> > North Carolina State Univ.      Durham, NC 27713
> > W: (919) 515-1437               H: (919) 361-1346  
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> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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Darrell Bryan Ensley         <address@hidden>      
Mesoscale Dynamics Lab          5703 Windlestraw Dr.
Rm 135, Research III            Apartment 37
North Carolina State Univ.      Durham, NC 27713
W: (919) 515-1437               H: (919) 361-1346  
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