missing /usrx/local/grads/dat/tables/B3M-000-012-B table?

[Stacie Bender]

Hi Jennifer,

I was trying to help Bill yesterday, and the BUFR files that Bill is
trying to read do indeed have table information encoded into them, but
it seems that the table that is encoded into the BUFR file is not what
GrADS is looking for.  Instead, GrADS seems to be looking for a table
that is in a format that matches the one pasted below.

We do have a table called B3M-000-010-B on our NCEP machines; but we
don't have B3M-000-012-B.  Below is the top of the B3M-000-010-B table
that we do have... does its format look familiar?  Is it something that
came out of the GrADS shop?  If not, then I suppose someone here at NCEP
must have created it, and we will have to go looking for that person.
Lucky them.  :)

#
# WMO source file name = BufrTabB-11-2001.txt
# Master Table B Version 10
#
#                   Reference    Bit
# F   X    Y Scale    Value     Width     Units     Comments
#--------------------------------------------------------------
# Class 00 - BUFR/CREX(*) table entries
  0;  0;   1;    0;           0;   24;   CCITT_IA5; Table A:  entry
  0;  0;   2;    0;           0;  256;   CCITT_IA5; "Table A:  data
category description, line 1"
  0;  0;   3;    0;           0;  256;   CCITT_IA5; "Table A:  data
category description, line 2"
  0;  0;   5;    0;           0;   24;   CCITT_IA5; BUFR/CREX edition number
  0;  0;  10;    0;           0;    8;   CCITT_IA5; F descriptor to be
added or defined
  0;  0;  11;    0;           0;   16;   CCITT_IA5; X descriptor to be
added or defined
  0;  0;  12;    0;           0;   24;   CCITT_IA5; Y descriptor to be
added or defined
  0;  0;  13;    0;           0;  256;   CCITT_IA5; "Element name, line 1"
  0;  0;  14;    0;           0;  256;   CCITT_IA5; "Element name, line 2"
  0;  0;  15;    0;           0;  192;   CCITT_IA5; Units name
  0;  0;  16;    0;           0;    8;   CCITT_IA5; Units scale sign

<snip>

If this email is clear as mud, let me know and I will try to clarify.

Thanks!!
Stacie

Jennifer Adams wrote:
> Hi, Bill --
> I haven't used the GrADS BUFR interface in a very long time, but I
> think it searches for a given lookup table based on what it finds in
> the BUFR file itself. Often tables are included along with data in a
> BUFR file. I did a Google search on that table number and got zero
> hits!! I would double check with your data provider, and if that
> doesn't work, I would ask NCEP's BUFR Guru, Jack Woollen.
> Jennifer