Greetings,
I have a strange fixation for 100% fidelity of parsing text products found
on NOAAPort/SBN. As a part of that process, I attempt to properly
associate a text product with its issuance center. I base the
issuance center on the 4-character code used within the WMO header
found with each product. Each day, I have a process email me a listing of
4-character codes that are 'unknown' to my database. For example, here's
a product from yesterday from KFAT
CSUS46 KFAT 021943
HYMHNX
MONTHLY PRECIPITATION FOR THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY AND THE SOUTHERN SIERRA
JULY 2017
.BR HNX 0731 P DH24/PPM
ASHC1 M : ASH MOUNTAIN
...snipped...
In a previous lifetime as a NOAA contractor, I provided NWS HQ Data
Management with a listing of incorrect WMO source codes used within
products and what I believe the correct code should be. In this example,
it should be KHNX. Anyway, it took two years and a gigantic effort just
to get a handful of Alaska climate products corrected and a hurricane
center product coming from KMIA removed, so I don't have much hope that
the others will be corrected.
Does anybody else here care about this situation? hehe, perhaps I should
just 'get a life' as the kids like to say these days. :)
daryl
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