[Met_help] prepbufr variables

[John Halley Gotway]

Holly,

At this point, min/max temperature observations are not available for MET to use from PREPBUFR files.  The PB2NC tool currently parses observations of type P, Q, T, Z, U, and V (pressure, specific
humidity, temp, height, u-wind, and v-wind) from the PREPBUFR files.

However in searching online (http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/data_processing/prepbufr.doc/table_1.htm), it appears that the PREPBUFR files may in fact contain min/max temps in the "TMXMNSEQ" sequence
of observation values.  But the PB2NC tool isn't currently parsing that data.

We really do need to take a closer look at the PREPBUFR files to see what additional observation types we can extract from them.  But as of right now, that capability isn't in there.

John

Holly Hassenzahl wrote:
> Hello again, John!
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> I have a quick question for you:  Do the prepbufr obs files contain
> min/max temp data?  Everything is running smoothly on my 3-hourly temp
> verifications.  The last component is to verify max and min temps.  Even
> though I request for TMIN and TMAX to be retained when running PB2NC, it
> appears that the netcdf file does not actually contain those variables.
> Only TMP is retained.
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> Thank you,
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> Holly  
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