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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,cdf data) 
      ___ Experiment Center 
      ___ other ()

No.     Data Stream                     Frequency       File Size(bytes)
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 1      sgp60nwssurfX1.a1               1 file /day          ~251,488 
 2      nac60ncdcsurfX1.00              1 /month             ~100,000,000
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Data Stream Name(s) and Comments:

No.1: sgp60nwssurfX1.a1.yyyymmdd.HH0000.cdf

      60 Minute surface data from the National Weather Service (NWS). It is 
      in netcdf format.

No.2: nac60ncdcsurfX1.00.yyyymmdd.000000.raw.tar

      Hourly Surface Meteorology Measurements Dataset from National 
      Climatic Data Center (NCDC) with accompanying station listing file. Data are in ASCII format. 



Source Instrument(s):

External Date Source: The National Weather Service and National
                      Climatic Data Center (NCDC).

Instrument Mentor(s):

Transfer Schedule: 

        We will send the nac60ncdcsurfX1.00 data when they become available.

Additional Notes:

       sgp60nwssurfX1.a1 are discontinued on 96/06 and replaced by
       nac60ncdcsurfX1.00.