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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	sgp60ksumesoX1.00               1 file/month           1,247,744
 2	sgp60ksumesoX1.b1               1 file/day              20,964
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Data Stream Name(s) and Comments:

No.1:  sgp60ksumesoX1.00.yyyymmdd.hhmmss.raw.tar

      Kansas Mesonet Data from HPCC. The tar file contains 16 files, each
      containing one month of data. Each file has the format:
       
      sgp60ksumesoX1.00.yyyymmdd.hhmmss.raw.asc.xxx
     
      Where xxx is one of the 16 Kansas Mesonet stations

No.2:  sgp60ksumesoX1.b1.yyyymmdd.hhmmss.cdf

       Kansas Mesonet Data in netcdf format.


Source Instrument(s):

External Data Source:  High Plains Climate Center (HPCC)

Instrument Mentor(s):

Transfer Schedule: 

	We will send 1 tar file per month, starting August 1998.

	We also will be sending a backlog of data contained in the
	following 3 tar files. We plan to send this out 7/28/98.

	Filename			    Dates of data 	  size 
					    within each file	 (bytes)
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sgp60ksumesoX1.00.19960101.000000.raw.tar  1/1/96 - 12/31/96	14530560
sgp60ksumesoX1.00.19970101.000000.raw.tar  1/1/97 - 12/31/97	14488064
sgp60ksumesoX1.00.19980101.000000.raw.tar  1/1/98 -  6/30/98	 7194624
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Additional Notes:

	This datastream replaces the Kansas Mesonet datastream 
	sgpksumesoX1.00.