Re: Re : ncl-talk post from appopson@yahoo.fr requires approval (fwd)

Hi Mary,

You are right some column are character type.
Let me give more precision to the dataset.

Here the type of each column starting at line 2

Column 1 ->  "integer"         =   64960
Column 2 ->  "character"     =   WMO
Column 3 ->  "character"     =   1984-03-13 06:00
Column 4 ->  "character"     =   SYNOP
Column 5 ->  "integer"         =   19823
Column 6 ->  "integer"         =   1
Column 7 ->  "integer"         =   1001

Column 8--57 -> "float"

I think that the description of the dataset is better.

Cheers

--- En date de : Mer 18.2.09, Mary Haley <haley_at_ucar.edu> a écrit :
De: Mary Haley <haley_at_ucar.edu>
Objet: Re: Re : ncl-talk post from appopson_at_yahoo.fr requires approval (fwd)
À: "louis Vonder" <appopson_at_yahoo.fr>
Date: Mercredi 18 Février 2009, 20h32

Can you repost your message with the new data file to ncl-talk, so I
can officially answer it there?

Are you saying all 57 fields are float? I saw quite a few non-numeric
characters in this file, like "WMO" and "1984-03-06 12:00".
If you
try to read these in as float, you will run into problems.

--Mary

On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, louis Vonder wrote:

> Thanks Mary,
> Sorry for the previous mesage.
>
> Here attached another file with less than 1Mb.
>
> The types of 57 field are "float"
>
> Cheers
>
> --- En date de : Mer 18.2.09, Mary Haley <haley_at_ucar.edu> a
écrit :
> De: Mary Haley <haley_at_ucar.edu>
> Objet: Re: Re : ncl-talk post from appopson_at_yahoo.fr requires approval
(fwd)
> À: "louis Vonder" <appopson_at_yahoo.fr>
> Date: Mercredi 18 Février 2009, 18h47
>
> Hi Louis,
>
> I got this message from you, I think, but didn't see anything in
> it except your original message.
>
> --Mary
>
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, louis Vonder wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> --- En date de : Mer 18.2.09, Mary Haley <haley_at_ucar.edu> a
> écrit :
>> De: Mary Haley <haley_at_ucar.edu>
>> Objet: ncl-talk post from appopson_at_yahoo.fr requires approval (fwd)
>> À: appopson_at_yahoo.fr
>> Cc: ncl-talk-owner_at_ucar.edu
>> Date: Mercredi 18 Février 2009, 18h07
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This message was rejected because of it's size.
>> However, I think I have a solution for you, so hold on
>> a bit...
>>
>> --Mary
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:01:30 -0700
>> From: ncl-talk-owner_at_ucar.edu
>> To: ncl-talk-owner_at_ucar.edu
>> Subject: ncl-talk post from appopson_at_yahoo.fr requires approval
>>
>> As list administrator, your authorization is requested for the
>> following mailing list posting:
>>
>> List: ncl-talk_at_ucar.edu
>> From: appopson_at_yahoo.fr
>> Subject: reading WMO station data
>> Reason: Message body is too big: 2863604 bytes with a limit of
1000 KB
>>
>> At your convenience, visit:
>>
>> http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/admindb/ncl-talk
>>
>> to approve or deny the request.Dear NCL users,
>>
>> Is there a script which can be used to read WMO station data, like the
one
> attached.
>> There is a way to convert this data in Netcdf file?
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>>
>>
>>
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