[Met_help] Problem with ascii2nc

[John Halley Gotway]

Nichole,

I'd suggest grabbing the latest bug fixes we have posted for METv2.0,
rebuilding, and then trying again.  There was a memory issue we found that
showed up when running a lot of observations through ASCII2NC.  It's
possible that this may be causing the behavior you're seeing.

Please retrieve the file: METv2.0_patches_20090805.tar.gz
>From the page:
http://www.dtcenter.org/met/users/support/known_issues/METv2.0/index.php

And follow the instructions on the page for how to apply the bug fixes. 
That page also includes details on the bug that may be causing this.

If you already have the latest bug fixes, or you're still having problems
after you apply them, just let us know.  At that point, I'd have you send
me a sample ASCII file, and I'd debug it from there.

Thanks and good luck.

On a side note... I'm glad to see folks from SLU using MET.  I'm from St.
Louis myself, attended SLU-High, and my machine at work is even named
"billiken".  Small world.

John Halley Gotway
johnhg at ucar.edu

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to get my data in netcdf format from ascii format and using
> the
> ascii2nc converter.   I have roughly 120,000 data points and when I run
> the
> converter for all of the points (lines in the ascii file) I get an error
> message "ERROR: write_met_obs() -> valid time is not in the expected
> YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS format: 20090507_120000", but when I run it for less data
> (I
> have tried 70,000 points) it works fine.   All of my data has the same
> time
> 20090507_120000, so I can't understand why that would be the problem.  It
> seems to me like the ascii file is too big when I use all of the lines and
> the converter crashes.  I would appreciate any insight to this problem.
> Thanks so much for your time and help.
>
> Nichole McKinney
> Saint Louis University
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