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| Notification of New Data Stream |
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This is your notification of a new data stream that we will be distributing 
from the XDC to the Archive. 

The following information should fully describe the new data stream. If you 
have any questions about this, please send them to the sender of this message. 

Sending to: 

      _x_ Archive (raw data) 
      ___ Experiment Center 
      ___ other ()

No.	Data Stream 			Frequency	File Size(bytes)
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1	gecacarsX1.a1                    1/day          7,000,000
2 	nsaacarsX1.a1                    1/day              8,000
3	sgpacarsX1.a1                    1/day            900,000
4	twpacarsX1.a1                    1/day             80,000
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Data stream Name(s) and comments:

1. gecacarsX1.a1.yyyymmdd.000000.cdf
   Covers the area with Lat (-90, 90) and Lon(-180, 180)

2. nsaacarsX1.a1.yyyymmdd.000000.cdf
   Covers the area with Lat (65, 80) and Lon(-175, -130)

3. sgpacarsX1.a1.yyyymmdd.000000.cdf
   Covers the area with Lat (31.941,41.00) and Lon(-103.561,-91.585)

4. twpacarsX1.a1.yyyymmdd.000000.cdf
   Covers the area with Lat (-20,20) and Lon(110,-80)

Source Instrument(s):

External Data Source:  Forecast Systems Laboratory(FSL)

Instrument Mentor(s):

Transfer Schedule:

  We have data covering 6/30/98-present. We will send all backlog of files
  on 10/07/98. We then will send the data on a daily basis.

Additional Notes:

  Data in netcdf format are retrieved from FSL's Web site via a special account. 
They are quality controlled data for moisture measurements collected from commercial aircraft.