Hi,
I need to do some analysis on historic daily radiosonde data I download
from the Wyoming Univ. web page (
http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html).
I am trying to use the RadioSonde package (V 1.3), but the format of the
files from Wyoming don't match what RadioSonde is expecting.

Has anyone used the Radiosonde package on the Wyoming data?
Here is a sample of the Wyoming file format:


    40179 Bet Dagan Observations at 00Z 22 Feb 2013

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   PRES   HGHT   TEMP   DWPT   RELH   MIXR   DRCT   SKNT   THTA   THTE
THTV
    hPa     m      C      C      %    g/kg    deg   knot     K      K
 K
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   70.0  18430  -64.5                         265     91  446.1
446.1
   59.6  19417  -60.9                         265     83  475.1
475.1
   50.0  20500  -62.5                         265     75  495.8
495.8
   46.7  20920  -64.3                                     501.2
501.2
   38.3  22137  -63.5                                     532.5
532.5
   33.3  23012  -56.3                                     573.2
573.2
   30.0  23670  -59.9                                     580.8
580.8
   28.1  24078  -60.5                                     590.0
590.0
   20.5  26056  -57.1                                     656.0
656.0


      Station information and sounding indices

                             Station number: 40179
                           Observation time: 130222/0000
                           Station latitude: 32.00
                          Station longitude: 34.81
                          Station elevation: 35.0
     Mean mixed layer potential temperature: 0.00
              Mean mixed layer mixing ratio: 0.00

Here is the code I tried:

filename <- 'D:\\Data\\sounding_test3.txt'
datakey  <- "------"
varkey   <- "   PRES"
unitkey  <- "    hPa"
sample.sonde <- getsonde(filename, datakey, varkey, unitkey)

Error in getsonde(filename, datakey, varkey, unitkey) :
  (getsonde): could not find a unique match for the data string

Thanks,
Ilik

Win7 OS 64-bit, R version 2.13.0.

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