Re: skewt hanging - units problem

Jim,

We'll take a look. The screwy calculations should definitely not cause
a hang! Thanks for tracking this down.

--Mary

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, James Boyle wrote:

> A week ago I wrote to the list reporting a program hang in the skewT plotting
> routines.
> I thought it was due to the large number of points in the sounding - this was
> not true - as Fred Clare proved.
>
> Just today I got another hang - the sounding only had 40 levels.
> The problem was units - my sounding had : pressure = Pa, Temp = K, q = g/kg,
> dewpoint = K
> skewT wanted : pressure = mb, Temp,dewpoint =C
>
> I can fully understand why the calculations would go screwy - my only point
> is that a hang is not good.
> I guess some additional parameter checking would avoid this problem.
> My code now does this checking, but it would be helpful to have it built in
> for the unwary.
>
> --Jim
>
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