Re: Skew-t plots and raw format

From: Dennis Shea <shea_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Fri Jun 07 2013 - 08:30:31 MDT

I found the following:

     http://www.raob.com/assets/downloads/rawformat.pdf

You can read an entire file (one sounding per file) as a 'string'

   raw = asciiread("raw_sounding", -1, "string")

then use the str* and "tofloat" to extract the information.

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/string.shtml

Good luck

On 6/7/13 8:03 AM, Dennis Shea wrote:
> The 'sounding_ATS.dat' used in the example is attached.
>
> You can send a sample RAW sounding data file to
>
> tp ftp.cgd.ucar.edu
> anonymous
> <use your email address for the password>
> cd incoming
> put ...
> quit
>
> Note that for security reasons, you cannot list the contents of this
> directory, and neither can we. We need to know the *exact* names of the
> files in order to retrieve them.
>
> On 6/7/13 7:18 AM, Luis Cesareo Cana Cascallar wrote:
>> Hi NCL users,
>>
>> I'd like to get Skew-T plots from RAW sounding data (downloaded from
>> UWYO). I've looked to examples in the NCL homepage and I'd like to
>> start with the skewt_3.ncl basis. This script gets the information
>> from a file called "sounding_ATS.dat" but there is no information
>> about this file except for it's an ascci file. Is there an example of
>> the use of raw format?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Luis
>>
>>
>>
>> Luis Cana Cascallar
>> ULPGC
>>
>> [cid:3A17E684-B211-4DB7-AA95-9DFF10435022@ccbb.ulpgc.es]
>>
>>
>>
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