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[IDV #XEH-588780]: Difficulty loading RAOB soundings

Hi Alex-

> I did try the RAOB chooser initially with the Soundings:Local tab.
> The sounding file format is listed as NetCDF when you download it but
> has a .cdf extension. I've attached the file. The error message is:
> 
> Reading sounding:J:\laser\s0\adh180\RAOB\raob_soundings20216.cdf
> Unable to find station id variable

Sorry, my bad.  I thought I had fixed this a while back to support
the FSL (now GSD) formatted soundings, but see that I never did.
The nightly build now supports this format if you want to give that
a try:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/idv/nightly

Thanks for pointing this out.

Don 

> At 12:46 PM 6/25/2008 -0600, you wrote:
> >Hi Alexander-
> >
> > > Full Name: Alexander Hassiotis
> > > Email Address: address@hidden
> > > Organization: Penn State University
> > > Package Version:
> > > Operating System:
> > > Hardware:
> > > Description of problem: Hi,
> > >
> > > I've attempted to load archived RAOB soundings from:
> > http://raob.fsl.noaa.gov/ using Soundings:Local.
> > >
> > > The soundings are available in various formats: FSL (text),
> > FAA604, NetCDF (binary)
> >
> >The netCDF version should work.
> >
> > > Unfortunately none of these formats seem to be recognized by the
> > IDV. An example of the FSL format can be found here:
> > http://raob.fsl.noaa.gov/temp/raob_soundings29981.tmp
> > >
> > > Is there a way or workaround to load one of these formats?
> >
> >Are you trying to load these through the Files chooser or the RAOB
> >chooser?  You'll
> >need to use the RAOB files chooser, not the generic files
> >chooser.  That's the only
> >one that knows how to read and make sense of the data for plotting
> >skew-t's etc.
> >
> >If that still doesn't work, please provide a (small) sample file.
> >
> >Don Murray
> >
> >Ticket Details
> >===================
> >Ticket ID: XEH-588780
> >Department: Support IDV
> >Priority: Normal
> >Status: Open
> 
> 


Ticket Details
===================
Ticket ID: XEH-588780
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open