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Bugs in import of NOAA GTS data #677

Open Steve-Palmer opened 2 years ago

Steve-Palmer commented 2 years ago

The dialogue for importing files downloaded from NOAA NCEI (Note the Help refers to NOAA-NCDC, but the hourly and daily synoptic data archives are now accessed through NCEI) has at least two bugs. The first is that the files downloaded from NOA NCEI are type .csv but the dialogue demands type .txt. Renaming the file from type .csv to .txt gets round this. Selecting this file in the Browse dialogue and clicking OK results in an error message "Access to the path 'C:\Program Files (x86)\ClimsoftV4\Bin\feet' is denied".

The downloaded file definition should be preset in this dialogue. The spec is available at: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/global-hourly/doc/isd-format-document.pdf Flies are ordered using a shopping cart system from: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/search/data-search/global-hourly

See also issues #673 and #674 which refer to this dialogue.

smachua commented 2 years ago

@Steve-Palmer I had noted that bug and was planning to have NOAA NCEI files be imported through other text files import dialogs. However, I noted that these files have temperatures in degree Fahrenheit thus making them a bit special. I am therefore addressing that bug and have the NOAA NCEI files imported without issues using the same dialog. I will be through in a day or two.