20020315: sfcfil & sfedit

Clint,

The default for LLMXTM is 300 different times in a file.
You have 744 times. You could use daily or weekly files, 
(sfgram can open multiple files from the file template)
Or, build GEMPAK with LLMXTM set to seomthing like 1000
in $GEMPAK/include/GEMPRM.PRM and gemprm.h

I have 30,000 station limit for number of stations, so you are OK
on that front. Even as a ship file, your 912*744 would
exceed the current limits in a single file.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support


>From: Clint Rowe <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
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>Chiz,
>
>I'm trying to put some hourly precip data into gempak format using
>sfcfil and sfedit.  I've created a station file and ascii data files
>from the original data format (attached) and I don't get any error
>messages when I run the script to create the gempak files.  But, when
>I run sflist to see the data, I get the following:
>
>purga% sflist
> SFFILE    Surface data file                 198301_hpcp.gem
> AREA      Data area                         ne
> DATTIM    Date/time                         all
> SFPARM    Surface parameter list            p01i
> OUTPUT    Output device/filename            T
> IDNTYP    STNM or STID                      stnm
> Parameters requested: SFFILE,AREA,DATTIM,SFPARM,OUTPUT,IDNTYP.
> GEMPAK-SFLIST>r
> [SF -14]  There are too many times in file.
> Parameters requested: SFFILE,AREA,DATTIM,SFPARM,OUTPUT,IDNTYP.
> GEMPAK-SFLIST>ex
> 
>If I cut the input file down, I can get everything to work, so I 
>think I'm doing thigs correctly.  Since there are only 912 possible 
>stations and 31*24=744 times, I don't know what's wrong.  Any insights?
>
>Clint
>
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>Clinton M. Rowe
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>Meteorology/Climatology Program                  phone:(402)472-1946
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