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Section 6: SMERGE Surface Data Meteorological Preprocessor
Table 6-9:
SURFCSV Control File Inputs (SURFCSV.INP)
Line Variable Type Description
1 Dataset character*16 Control input file dataset name
1 Dataver Character*16 Dataset Version
2 Ncom Integer Number of Comment records to
follow
3 Title character*180 Comments (Ncom Lines)
4 ID Integer Station ID Number
5 ATZONE UTC—0800=PST; UTC-0700=MST;
UTC-0600=CST; UTC-0500=EST
Western hemisphere-negative
Eastern hemisphere-positive
6 IBEG Integers Output Starting time;
YYYY MM DD hh mm
7 IEND Integers Output Ending time;
YYYY MM DD hh mm
8 NHRINC Integers Output time increment; hh mm
9 MTIME Integer Output time method; (1) exact or
(2) nearest
10 NSKIP Integer Skip the header records, provide
number of rows of header records
before data starts
11 ICDATE Integer Column of data representing the
date
12 ICTIME Integer Column of data representing the
time, can be the same column as
the date
13 DATETIME Integer Format of the date and time
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm or,
MM/DD/YYYY hh:mm
14 Integer Column of data representing wind
speed; 0 = not applicable
15 Integer Column of data representing wind
direction; 0 = not applicable
16 Integer Column of data representing
temperature; 0 = not applicable
17 Integer Column of data representing
relative humidity; 0 = not
applicable
18 Integer Column of data representing
pressure; 0 = not applicable
19 Integer Column of data representing cloud
column; typically cloud+height;
0 = not applicable
20 Integer Column of data representing the
cloud ceiling height; 0 = not
applicable
21 Integer Column of data representing cloud
cover; 0 = not applicable
22 Character Units of wind speed (mph, mps,
knots)
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