[Met_help] ascii2nc question (output format)

[John Halley Gotway]

Jonathan,

I believe that would be fine.  The columns of data don't need to be lined
up nicely or anything.  In each row, it's looking for 10 entries separated
by white space.

However, I'd suggest running ascii2nc on a few sample lines and then using
'ncdump' to view the NetCDF file that was created to make sure it's doing
what you expect.

John

> John,
>
> I have one additional question on ascii2nc, if you don't mind.
>
> Does ascii2nc simply read in the columns in a free-format read so that
> column number doesn't matter?  For example, if my script just dumped out
> each piece of data separated by a single space, would this be sufficient
> for ascii2nc to use it?
>
> Thanks once again,
> Jonathan
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Halley Gotway [mailto:johnhg at rap.ucar.edu]
>> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 1:53 PM
>> To: Case, Jonathan (MSFC-VP61)[Other]
>> Cc: met_help at ucar.edu
>> Subject: Re: ascii2nc question (Level)
>>
>> Jonathan,
>>
>> You can set it to -9999 for missing.
>>
>> When using Point-Stat to verify at the surface, remember that the
> level
>> information is not actually used.  Instead, it's just the message
> type.
>> Observations with message type "APDSFC" or "SFCSHP" are
>> matched to forecasts at the surface.  For verification of pressure
>> levels, the level information of the observations are actually used.
>>
>> If you're using any observations of accumulated precipitation, the
>> level field should be set to the accumulation interval of the precip,
>> e.g. a value of 12 indicates 12 hours of accumulation.
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>> John
>>
>> Case, Jonathan (MSFC-VP61)[Other] wrote:
>> > John,
>> >
>> > Sorry -- I meant to include this piece of info in the previous
> email.
>> If the station pressure from a sfc obs is not available, then what
>> should we set the "Level" to?
>> >
>> > Jonathan
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Case, Jonathan (MSFC-VP61)[Other]
>> >> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 1:47 PM
>> >> To: 'John Halley Gotway'
>> >> Subject: ascii2nc question (Level)
>> >>
>> >> John,
>> >>
>> >> I have a question on the "Level" parameter in the required ascii2nc
>> >> input (column 8 from the table in section 3.6 of the MET v1.1
> User's
>> >> Guide).  When we're converting surface observations, would this
>> value
>> >> be equivalent to surface/station pressure?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks!
>> >> Jonathan
>> >>
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