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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 ()



	Filename format(s):  Raw Data:
			     nacmoltsetaclasskX1.00.yyyymmdd.000000.raw.tar.gz
			     nacmoltsedasclasskX1.00.yyyymmdd.000000.raw.tar.gz

			     where k = 0,1
								
	Frequency:	     Raw Data:

			     nacmoltsetaclasskX1.00.yyyymmdd.000000.raw.tar.gz

			     2 tar file per day 
			     each tar file containing the following 2 
			     individual files:
                             nacmoltsetaclasskX1.00.yyyymmdd.000000.raw
                             nacmoltsetaclasskX1.00.yyyymmdd.120000.raw
			     where k = 0,1

			     nacmoltsedasclasskX1.00.yyyymmdd.000000.raw.tar.gz

			     2 tar file per day
			     each tar file containing the following 8 
			     individual files:
                             nacmoltsedasclasskX1.00.yyyymmdd.hh0000.raw 

                             where k = 0, 1 and hh=0,3,6,9,12,15,18 and 21

        File size(s):        Raw tar Data:

            		     nacmoltsetaclasskX1.00.yyyymmdd.000000.raw.tar.gz
			     ~15229003 bytes/file

            		     nacmoltsedasclasskX1.00.yyyymmdd.000000.raw.tar.gz
			     ~6467263 bytes/file

    Source Instrument(s): 

    External Date Source:  National Centers for Environmental Prediction

    Instrument Mentor(s): 


Additional Notes:

	The Model Output Location Time Series (MOLTS) data are provided 
	by NCEP in bufr format.  We have files covering 06/97-present. 
	We will start sending the data on a daily basis on 2/9/97.
        We will also be sending out the one week's worth of backlog data 
	per day starting on 2/11/97  
   
   	For more information on the data and the content please see the
	release notice at --
	http://www.xdc.arm.gov/docs/data_info/release_forms/molts.release.html