Re: 20041213: Gempak - dcmetr wrong decoding of SA reports and MLT

[Christian Pagé <page.christian@xxxxxxxxx>]

FYI:
| STATION NAME                      :|TC |INDEX| LATITUDE      
|ELEV|TYP| OBS HOURS OF THE DAY   | DAY OF |: :|
|                              PROV :|ID |SYNO |    LONGITUDE |    |    
|   (READ VERTICALLY)    | OBSERV |: :|
+======================================================================= 
=====================================+

SAINT-ANDRE-AVELIN            |QUE |Q|MAN|     |  45 49  75  
04|0195|AU7|000000000011111111112222|        | | |
SAINT-CELESTIN                |QUE |Q|MSC|     |  46 12  72  
27|0055|AU7|000000000011111111112222|        | | |
SAINT-CHRYSOSTOME             |QUE |Q|MYT|     |  45 08  73  
46|0055|AU7|000000000011111111112222|        | | |
SAINT-CONSTANT                |QUE |Q|MCT|     |  45 20  73  
35|0039|AU7|000000000011111111112222|        | | |
SAINT-LIN-LAURENTIDES         |QUE |Q|MLT|     |  45 51  73  
42|0050|AU7|000000000011111111112222|        | | |
SAINT-LOUIS                   |QUE |Q|MLI|     |  45 52  73  
00|0031|AU7|000000000011111111112222|        | | |
SAINT-MICHEL-DE-NAPIERVILLE   |QUE |Q|MSX|     |  45 11  73  
37|0059|AU7|000000000011111111112222|        | | |
SAINT-POLYCARPE               |QUE |Q|MPL|71306|  45 18  74  
18|0056|AU7|000000000011111111112222|        | | |
SAINT-ROCK-DES-AULNAIES       |QUE |Q|MSR|     |  47 17  70  
10|0048|AU7|000000000011111111112222|        | | |
RAWDON                        |QUE |Q|MWD|     |  46 01  73  
49|0210|AU7|000000000011111111112222|        | | |
CHATHAM-BROWSBURG             |QUE |Q|MBB|     |  45 37  74  
25|0075|AU7|000000000011111111112222|        | | |
COVEY HILL                    |QUE |Q|MCW|     |  45 01  73  
52|0262|AU7|000000000011111111112222|        | | |
FORET MONTMORENCY RCS         |QUE |Q|MFM|71212|  47 19  71  
09|0673|AU8|000000000011111111112222|        | | |
LOCHABER                      |QUE |Q|MHB|     |  45 38  75  
12|0105|AU7|000000000011111111112222|        | | |
HARRINGTON                    |QUE |Q|MHN|     |  45 48  74  
39|0168|AU7|000000000011111111112222|        | | |
L'ARTIFICE                    |QUE |Q|MLA|     |  45 04  73  
50|0061|AU7|000000000011111111112222|        | | |
RIGAUD 2                      |QUE |Q|MRI|71305|  45 29  74  
18|0030|AU7|000000000011111111112222|        | | |
RUISSEAU CRANBERRY            |QUE |Q|MRY|     |  45 07  73  
41|0059|AU7|000000000011111111112222|        | | |

Ref: http://ftp.cmc.ec.gc.ca/metstat/metstat1.txt

Christian Pagé
http://meteocentre.com/    http://meteoalerte.com/

Etudiant au Doctorat en Sciences de l'environnement UQAM
+1 514 987 3000 ext. 2376

On 04-12-13, at 16:50, Unidata Support wrote:

> Christian,
>
> One solution would be to rename the US station from MLT in the
> station table to KMLT. That way, this station wouldn't match the
> MLT "SA" which is probably something like CMLT, since only
> those Canadian AUTO8's still come in the modified SA bulletins.
>
> Steve Chiswell
>
> > From: "Christian =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pag=E9?=" <page.christian@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Organization: UCAR/Unidata
> > Keywords: 200412132027.iBDKROJi013045
>
> > Institution: UQAM
> > Package Version: 5.7.3
> > Operating System: IRIX64
> > Hardware Information: SGI
> > Inquiry: Hi everyone,
> >
> > I noticed errors in SA decoding in my current version 5.7.3 of  
> > GEMPAK. But MET
> > AR decoding is OK. And the MLT station is not the same as KMLT, but I  
> > couldn'
> > t find which station is MLT SA report.
> >
> > Double-name with different stations (I suspect MLT is a new station  
> > in Canada)
> > :
> >
> > 2004121320_sao.wmo:KMLT 131958Z AUTO 03003KT 10SM OVC006 M02/M03  
> > A2948 RMK AO2
> >  SLP993
> > 2004121320_sao.wmo:MLT SA 2000 AUTO8 M M M M/-03/-04/0304/M/M M 97MM=
> >
> > Wrong decoding:
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > GEMPAK-SFLIST>sffile=/io/ldm/data/gempak/surface/sao/ 
> > 2004112618_sao.gem
> > GEMPAK-SFLIST>r
> > PARM = STID;TMPC
> >
> >    STN    YYMMDD/HHMM      STID     TMPC
> >    MLT    041126/1800       MLT   -18.30
> >
> >
> > MLT SA 1800 AUTO8 M M M M/-01/-09/2710/M/M SOG 02 M 01MM
> >
> > Parameters requested: SFFILE,AREA,DATTIM,SFPARM,OUTPUT,IDNTYP.
> > GEMPAK-SFLIST>sffile= /io/ldm/data/gempak/surface/sao/20041125_sao.gem
> > GEMPAK-SFLIST>r
> > PARM = STID;TMPC
> >
> >    STN    YYMMDD/HHMM      STID     TMPC
> >    MLT    041125/1800       MLT    13.00
> >
> >
> > KMLT 251806Z AUTO VRB06KT 2SM BR OVC001 13/13 A2919 RMK AO2
> >
> > Parameters requested: SFFILE,AREA,DATTIM,SFPARM,OUTPUT,IDNTYP.
> > GEMPAK-SFLIST>dattim=19
> > GEMPAK-SFLIST>r
> > PARM = STID;TMPC
> >
> >    STN    YYMMDD/HHMM      STID     TMPC
> >    MLT    041125/1900       MLT   -16.10
> >
> >
> > MLT SA 1900 AUTO8 M M M M/03/01/3111+16/M/M M 02MM
> >
> > Parameters requested: SFFILE,AREA,DATTIM,SFPARM,OUTPUT,IDNTYP.
> > GEMPAK-SFLIST>e
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