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Section 3: READ62 Upper Air Preprocessor
Table 3-3 (continued)
Sample READ62 Control File (READ62.INP)
Ending date: Year (IEYR) -- No default ! IEYR = 1993 !
Month (IEMO) -- No default ! IEMO = 1 !
Day (IEDY) -- No default ! IEDY = 8 !
[00-23 UTC] Hour (IBHR) -- No default ! IEHR = 12 !
Second(IBSECN) -- No default ! IESEC = 0 !
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NOTE: Explicit times with seconds (not hour-ending times)
in Universal Time (UTC), also known as Greenwich Mean
Time (GMT).
--- File Options ---
Type of NCDC input sounding data file
(JDAT) No Default ! JDAT = 1 !
1 = TD-6201 format
2 = NCDC FSL format
Type of SUBSTITUTE UP.DAT input sounding data file
(ISUB) Default: 0 ! ISUB =0 !
0 = NO substitute sounding file is used
1 = Delimiter between data in a sounding level is a slash (/)
and wind speed and direction are written as integers
2 = Delimiter between data in a sounding level is a comma (,)
and all data are written as reals (more significant digits)
Format used in UP.DAT output data records
(IFMT) Default: 2 ! IFMT = 2 !
1 = Delimiter between data in a sounding level is a slash (/)
and wind speed and direction are written as integers
2 = Delimiter between data in a sounding level is a comma (,)
and all data are written as reals (more significant digits)
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