8. Had a hunt and found an identically-named temperature database file which
did include normals lines at the start of every station. How handy - naming
two different files with exactly the same name and relying on their location
to differentiate! Aaarrgghh!! Re-ran anomdtb:
> ***** AnomDTB: converts .dtb to anom .txt for gridding *****
> Enter the suffix of the variable required:
.tmp
> Select the .cts or .dtb file to load:
tmp.0311051552.dtb
> Specify the start,end of the normals period:
1961,1990
> Specify the missing percentage permitted:
25
> Data required for a normal: 23
> Specify the no. of stdevs at which to reject data:
3
> Select outputs (1=.cts,2=.ann,3=.txt,4=.stn):
3
> Check for duplicate stns after anomalising? (0=no,>0=km range)
8
> Select the generic .txt file to save (yy.mm=auto):
rr2.txt
> Select the first,last years AD to save:
1901,2002
> Operating...
> Failed to find file.
> Enter the file, with suffix: .dts
tmp.0311051552.dts
Values loaded: 1255171542; No. Stations: 12155
> NORMALS MEAN percent STDEV percent
> .dtb 5910325 86.6
> .cts 575661 8.4 6485986 95.0
> PROCESS DECISION percent %of-chk
> no lat/lon 12043 0.2 0.2
> no normal 335741 4.9 4.9
> out-of-range 31951 0.5 0.5
> duplicated 341323 5.0 5.3
> accepted 6107721 89.4
> Dumping years 1901-2002 to .txt files...