Re: reading ascii vertical sounding data (Upper air data from Univ. of Wyoming)

From: Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate <dave.allured_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Thu Jan 03 2013 - 21:01:57 MST

Basit,

It is important to know what exactly is in a single file. Is there
just one header and one footer per file? It is not clear whether you
first posted a single ascii file, or two or three files pasted
together.

If there is only one header and one footer, are the number of header
lines and footer lines always the same? If the answer is "yes" to all
of these, then I think you can use a variation of example asc4.txt on
the Read ASCII example page. Will this work?

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/read_ascii.shtml#asc4

--Dave
(Please reply to list only!)

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:49 AM, BasitAli Khan
<BasitAli.Khan@kaust.edu.sa> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have vertical sounding data of the following type (upper air - Wyoming
> Univ.) that i want to load and process in ncl. Its one year data and i have
> two soundings for each day. For every sounding there is header and footer on
> top and bottom of the numeric data. I am just wondering as how can i load
> ONLY numeric data fields into variables while ignoring all the header and
> footer info. I am using asciiread function to load this file as string
> datatype but don't know how to tell ncl to exclude any redundant info.
> Unfortunately, I could not find any relevant examples on
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/read_ascii.shtml and would greatly
> appreciate if anybody could advise a solution.
>
> Best regards,
> Basit
>
>
> 41024 OEJN Jeddah (King Abdul Aziz) Observations at 00Z 02 Jan 2012
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> PRES HGHT TEMP DWPT RELH MIXR DRCT SKNT THTA THTE
> THTV
> hPa m C C % g/kg deg knot K K K
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1013.0 17 22.8 16.8 69 12.02 20 10 294.9 329.5
> 297.0
> 1012.0 26 22.8 16.9 70 12.15 350 14 294.9 330.0
> 297.1
> 1000.0 136 22.4 18.8 80 13.85 345 16 295.6 335.5
> 298.0
> 984.0 275 21.3 18.4 83 13.73 345 20 295.8 335.5
> 298.3
> 930.0 763 17.6 17.0 97 13.31 350 14 296.8 335.4
> 299.2
>
> Station information and sounding indices
>
> Station identifier: OEJN
> Station number: 41024
> Observation time: 120102/0000
> Station latitude: 21.70
> Station longitude: 39.18
> Station elevation: 17.0
> 41024 OEJN Jeddah (King Abdul Aziz) Observations at 12Z 02 Jan 2012
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> PRES HGHT TEMP DWPT RELH MIXR DRCT SKNT THTA THTE
> THTV
> hPa m C C % g/kg deg knot K K K
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1012.0 17 27.0 14.0 45 10.02 320 14 299.1 328.7
> 300.9
> 1011.0 26 24.6 12.6 47 9.14 322 15 296.8 323.6
> 298.5
> 1004.0 90 24.2 13.5 51 9.77 340 19 297.0 325.6
> 298.8
> 1000.0 126 24.0 14.0 54 10.14 335 19 297.1 326.8
> 299.0
> 943.0 633 18.7 12.7 68 9.89 325 16 296.8 325.7
> 298.6
> 927.0 781 17.2 12.3 73 9.81 340 18 296.7 325.4
> 298.4
> 925.0 800 17.0 12.3 74 9.80 345 18 296.7 325.3
> 298.4
> 907.0 967 15.7 11.8 78 9.71 345 14 297.0 325.4
> 298.7
> 893.0 1100 14.6 11.5 82 9.63 20 10 297.2 325.4
> 298.9
> 887.0 1157 14.8 10.5 75 9.06 9 5 298.0 324.7
> 299.6
> Station information and sounding indices
>
> Station identifier: OEJN
> Station number: 41024
> Observation time: 120102/1200
> Station latitude: 21.70
> Station longitude: 39.18
> Station elevation: 17.0
> Showalter index: 10.08
> Lifted index: 5.13
> LIFT computed using virtual temperature: 4.91
>
> 41024 OEJN Jeddah (King Abdul Aziz) Observations at 00Z 03 Jan 2012
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> PRES HGHT TEMP DWPT RELH MIXR DRCT SKNT THTA THTE
> THTV
> hPa m C C % g/kg deg knot K K K
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1013.0 17 20.0 13.0 64 9.37 50 5 292.1 318.9
> 293.7
> 1011.0 35 21.6 15.6 69 11.14 50 5 293.8 325.9
> 295.8
> 1000.0 134 21.4 14.4 64 10.41 50 4 294.6 324.6
> 296.4
> 964.0 450 18.9 14.5 76 10.91 40 2 295.1 326.6
> 297.0
> 925.0 806 16.0 14.7 92 11.49 5 4 295.7 328.9
> 297.7
> 915.0 898 15.0 14.3 96 11.32 335 5 295.6 328.3
> 297.6
> 893.0 1105 14.6 13.1 91 10.72 268 8 297.2 328.5
> 299.1
> 876.0 1268 15.7 13.1 85 10.93 215 10 300.0 332.2
> 301.9
> 868.0 1346 16.2 13.1 82 11.03 197 15 301.3 334.0
> 303.3
>
>
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