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Section 7: Prognostic Meteorological Interfaces
Table 7-9 (Continued)
MM5 Derived Surface 2-D Variables File Format (2D.DAT)
HEADER RECORDS
Header Record #N+4
Variable No. Variable Type Description
1 IBYRM integer Beginning year of the data in the file
2 IBMOM integer Beginning month of the data in the file
3 IBDYM integer Beginning day of the data in the file
4 IBHRM integer Beginning hour (UTC) of the data in the file
5 NHRSMM5 integer Length of period (hours) of the data in the file
6 NXP integer Number of grid cells in the X direction in the
extracted sub-domain
7 NYP integer Number of grid cells in the Y direction in the
extracted sub-domain
8 NZP integer Number of sigma layers in the extracted sub-domain
Format (i4,3i2,i5,4i4)
)
Header Record #N+5
Variable No. Variable Type Description
1 NX1 integer I-index (X direction) of the lower left corner of sub-domain
2 NY1 integer J-index (Y direction) of the lower left corner of sub-domain
3 NX2 integer I-index (X direction) of the upper right corner of sub-domain
4 NY2 integer J-index (Y direction) of the upper right corner of sub-domain
5 NZ1 integer k-index (Z direction) of lowest extracted layer
6 NZ2 integer k-index (Z direction) of hightest extracted layer
7 RXMIN real Westernmost E. longitude (degrees) in the sub-domain
8 RXMAX real Easternmost E. longitude (degrees) in the sub-domain
9 RYMIN real Southernmost N. latitude (degrees) in the sub-domain
10 RYMAX real Northernmost N. latitude (degrees) in the sub-domain
Format (6i4,2f10.4,2f9.4)
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