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***For Upper Air*** NCAR RDA Fortran program to convert NCEP BUFR data (using BUFRLIB) to ASCII Tables
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Decoded SATWND from ds351.0 still contains binary value #2

Closed Nuo-Chen closed 2 months ago

Nuo-Chen commented 3 months ago

With the update rda bufr decoder, satwnd from ds351.0 does show the GOES data. But when I opened the output txt file, I noticed that a big chunk of data (starting with OBS TYPE = NC0050**) has the station number showing binary value ^@^@^@èvH7B

SATWND NC005039 202008080200 ^@^@^@èvH7B -38.74 -96.41 99999 1 WXPR 874.9 9999.9 999.9 999.9 999.9 999.9 999.9 999.9 124.0 12.5 | 0.00 271.00

Another issue I encountered was when I tried to search the GOES data with either 'VISUS' or 'H2SUS' I couldn't find them. Their OBS TYPE are rather NC005030 and NC005031 as shown here

tcram commented 3 months ago

@Nuo-Chen I will look into this. To confirm, is the example you show above output from the BUFR SATWND file for 00 UTC 08 Aug 2020?

Nuo-Chen commented 3 months ago

Yes, the bufr file name is gdas.satwnd.t00z.20200808.bufr

tcram commented 3 months ago

@Nuo-Chen This should be fixed now. The decoder was using the BUFR mnemonic RPID for the station column, but this value is undefined in SATWND observations. The code is updated to use SAID instead for SATWND observations, and the station name field is increased from 8 characters to 40 characters to accommodate the larger size of the satellite ID value.

See pull request #3 for details.