Sent  	Friday, April 13, 2007 1:58 am
To  	Melanie Hamilton <Melanie.Hamilton@noaa.gov> 
Cc  	Charles Sun <Charles.Sun@noaa.gov> 
Bcc  	 
Subject  	RE: BOM2004 - with some CRCs [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

 
Hi Melanie, (& Charles)

I cant believe its taken me a year to find the time to fix the issues
you raised with my BOM2004 submission....  Sad, but true.
Actually we also had our national XBT SOOP coordination meetings in the
week before Easter, and I got wrapped over the knuckles for not having
submitted the 2005 and 2006 datasets either! So this week, I finally got
down to work.

I think I have managed to address all of your problems - with the
exception of the leading zero in the CRC....since I don't see this as a
problem!
I'm not sure whether Charles has left for the SOT meetings next week -
maybe you could discuss this issue at the "GTSPP meeting"? (ie, CRC as
an 8-character string (with leading zeros) or as an integer (no leading
zeros)).

So, now if there's a CRC in the metadata, Nsurfc=5.
Deepest depth is also now correctly set - Ann's conversion routine was
just assuming that there was only 1 data line per record and taking the
last depth from there. That's why it matched for shallow profiles, but
not for deeper.

PRC_Date and Up_Date fields should not have any blank spaces anymore.
 
In the process I've also made a few other improvements to my
crc-matching routine, so there should be just a few more CRCs included
in the new, improved BOM2004.

So, when you're ready, you can now grab BOM2004.MA, BOM2005.MA and
BOM2006.MA either from
http://www.bom.gov.au/bmrc/ocean/JAFOOS/BOM_xbt.html

Or via anon-ftp at ftp.bom.gov.au  and then: cd
/anon/home/bmrc/perm/JAFOOS/


In the end it was easier to write my own routine, than to repair Ann's
program. So my routine read in the output from Ann's routine and then
changed a few characters and re-wrote the output. I tried to check what
I was doing as carefully as possible, but please let me know if I've
introduced new errors!  Or if some still persist....!

Thanks,
Lisa




