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20020430: S14 location error

Michael,

Thanks for pointing out the discrepancy. The 122W is a typo in 2 of the tables
and should be 112. It is correct in the other GEMPAK tables. I have updated
the others.

However, there is still a matter of a discrepancy of the latitude. The AWIPS
table lists S14 as:
0000000000|KS14 | 44.30 |-112.10 | 1794|SPENCER, ID |US|MTR

The US city location index for Spencer also puts the the city at that latitude.
Your location of 42Nmay not be correct.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support


On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Michael E. Splitt wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> I just had an inquiry regarding the metadata for the
> METAR station S14 - Spencer ID. Our MesoWest information
> indicated that the lat/lon was actually in Oregon
> (which should be incorrect). I managed to find the
> following from http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/seattle/obs.html
> 
> 
> Idaho               
> Station Name   State    ID     Lat    Lon    Elev  WMO
>                                              (M)   Number
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> SPENCER         ID US   S14   42.21 -112.11  1700 99999
> 
> Note that the current listing on the Unidata searchable
> database is:
> 
> S14       99999 SPENCER                          ID US  4435 -12218  1800
> 
> 
> Again, this is a location in Oregon and was the source of
> the metadata we are using as well. We will be updating our metadata,
> I thought I would pass this information on. 
> 
> Mike
> 
> ******************************************************************************
> Michael E. Splitt
> NOAA Cooperative Institute for Regional Prediction              
> UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
>