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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)
 	_x_  Experiment Center   (raw data )
 	___  other ()
 
 
     File Information:
 
 	Filename format(s):	
 				Raw Data:
 				sgpg8profX1.00.yymmdd.000000.raw
 								
 	Frequency:		
 	                        sgpg8profX1.00.yymmdd.000000.raw
                                 one file per day
                                 
                                 Where yymmdd is the year, month and day
 				of the file.
 
        File size(s):           sgpg8profX1.00.yymmdd.000000.raw
                                  ~34737 bytes/file
                                 
 
                                 
     Source Instrument(s): 
 
     External Date Source: University of Wisconsin, CIMSS/SSEC 
 
     Instrument Mentor(s): Peter Minnett
 
 
 Additional Notes:
 
        sgpg8profX1.00(GOES8 soundings) is provided by the University of 
        Wisconsin, CIMSS/SSEC. It is in ASCII format.  The data will replace 
        the discontinued sgpgoeswaterX1.00 raw data. 
 
        The dataset contains parameters of Temperature, Dewpoint, 
        Pressure, Height above sea level and Retrieval Type. Details please
        see the release notice at
 http://www.xdc.arm.gov/docs/data_info/release_forms/sgpg8prof.release.html
 
        Starting 2/27/98, we will send sgpg8profX1.00 on a daily basis.
        In addition, We have updated retrieval files covering 10/01/97-02/14/98
        All 'backlog' files will be sent next week.