[Met_help] Problems in extracting wind OBS in PREPBUFR files (IGNORE)

[John Halley Gotway]

Jonathan,

Great.  Glad you figured it out.

John

Case, Jonathan (MSFC)[] wrote:
> John,
> 
> Never mind-- I just realized that level_category = 0 outputs only MASS variables.
> Please ignore my previous message then.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Case, Jonathan (MSFC)[]
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:05 AM
>> To: 'John Halley Gotway'
>> Subject: Problems in extracting wind OBS in PREPBUFR files
>>
>> Hello again John,
>>
>> I went ahead and downloaded all available gdas1.* PREPBUFR data files
>> for June-August 2008.  I grabbed the "unblok" files, and then Fortran-
>> blocked them.
>>
>> Now, I've been working with the pb2nc utility on a sample file to
>> create a netcdf file with surface OBS only to be used for point_stat.
>> So far, I have not been able to write any wind observations into the
>> resulting netcdf file for surface observations (If I leave
>> "level_category" blank, then I do get winds output).  I tried both the
>> numeric GRIB codes and variable names:
>>
>> //obs_grib_code[] = [ "TMP", "HGT", "UGRD", "VGRD", "WIND", "DPT",
>> "PRMSL" ];
>> obs_grib_code[] = [ "2", "7", "11", "17", "32", "33", "34" ];
>> .
>> .
>> .
>> level_category[] = [ 0 ];
>>
>> With these entries in the pb2nc config file, I've only been able to
>> output TMP, HGT, DPT, and PRMSL (no wind speed or wind components).
>>
>> So, how would I output only SFC observations to include winds in the
>> pb2nc output as well?
>> Is there possibly something I'm missing or setting incorrectly in the
>> config file?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Jonathan
>>
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