[Met_help] Problem with PrepBufr files

[John Halley Gotway]

Ka Yee,

The error message you're seeing is interesting.  This is the first time we've received a question about it.  Typically all of the messages in a PrepBufr file contain the same reference observation 
time.  Each PrepBufr message contains individual observations for which an "offset" time is defined.  So the valid time for an individual observation is defined as the message time + the observation 
offset time.  Typically, the reference time stays the same for all PrepBufr messages in a file.

However, in the PrepBufr file you're using, it appears that the time is changing from message to message.  Would you be able to send me a copy of this PrepBufr file?  It should be pretty 
straightforward to modify the pb2nc code to account for this timing difference.

You could just email it to me.  Or if it's too big for email, feel free to copy it to NCAR's anonymous ftp site using the following commands:

cd data/2000_obs/prepbufr/obs.20000726
ftp ftp.rap.ucar.edu
username = anonymous
password = your email address
cd incoming/irap/johnhg
put gdas1.t00z.adpsfc.tm00.bufr_d
bye


Thanks,
John Halley-Gotway
johnhg at ucar.edu

kayee at atmos.ucla.edu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am a beginner of MET, and I encountered the following problem while
> running pb2nc.
> 
> Here is the error message I got:
> 
> /home/kayee/METv1.1 126> bin/pb2nc \
> data/2000_obs/prepbufr/obs.20000726/gdas1.t00z.adpsfc.tm00.bufr_d \
> out/pb2nc/obs.20000726_t00z.nc \
> data/config/PB2NCConfig \
> -v 2 \
> Reading Config File:    data/config/PB2NCConfig
> Creating NetCDF File:   out/pb2nc/obs.20000726_t00z.nc
> Reading PrepBufr File: 
> data/2000_obs/prepbufr/obs.20000726/gdas1.t00z.adpsfc.tm00.bufr_d
> PrepBufr Time Center:   20000725_210000
> Searching Time Window:  20000725_210000 to 20000725_220000
> Processing 40869 PrepBufr messages...
> 5%
> 
> ERROR: process_pbfile() -> the observation time should remain the same for
> all PrepBufr messages: 964562400 != 964558800
> 
> 
> Do you know why I get this error? I don't know how prepbufr time center is
> set?
> 
> I hope someone can help, thanks a lot!
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Ka Yee Wong
> 
> 
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