[Met_help] prepbufr variables

[John Halley Gotway]

Holly,

Out of curiosity, what is the data format for the point observations you have?  Is it in ASCII... and if so, how is it formatted?  I'm wondering if it follows some standard format that may be useful
for MET to read more directly.

Thanks,
John

Holly Hassenzahl wrote:
> Thanks, John.  That's sort of what I figured.  We have observation data
> here that we've been talking about getting into ASCII format.  I think
> we'll work on doing that next week and then use ASCII2NC instead.  
> 
> Take care,
> Holly
> 
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> Holly C. Hassenzahl
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Halley Gotway [mailto:johnhg at rap.ucar.edu] 
> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 4:15 PM
> To: Holly Hassenzahl; met_help
> Subject: Re: prepbufr variables
> 
> 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.h
> tm), 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!
>>
>>  
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Holly  
>>
>>  
>>
>> ___________________________________
>>
>> Holly C. Hassenzahl
>>
>> Meteorologist, Science Analyst
>>
>> Data Products Group
>>
>>  
>>
>> Weather Central, Inc.
>>
>> 401 Charmany Drive Suite 200
>>
>> Madison, WI 53711
>>
>> +1.608.274.5789
>>
>> +1.608.276.4600
>>
>> http://www.weathercentral.tv
>>
>>  
>>
>>  
>>
>>