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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 
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No.	Data Stream 			Frequency	File Size(bytes)
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1       sgpiapX1.00                       1/month       ~6347553
2       sgpiapageX1.00                    1/month       ~5693916
3       sgpiapagesX1.00                   1/month         ~13226
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Data stream Name(s) and Comments:

No.1: sgpiapX1.00.yyyymm01.000000.raw.tar.gz

      The tar file contains the following individual daily files:
      sgpiapX1.00.YYYYMMDD.000000.raw.tYYMMDDH.zip

      The data are in an info-zip archive (one or two per flight day) of a
      bunch of ASCII files in a format "that only makes sense to the folks
      at CMDL".  The zip-files are called: tYYMMDDH.zip, where YYMMDD are
      self-explanatory and H is a one-byte alpha generated from the hour
      in order to tell zip files apart should there be more than one on a
      given day.  Typical file sizes are in the 100kB to 500kB range.
      Small (<5kB) files likely ONLY contain test data.
      
No.2: sgpiapageX1.00.yyyymm01.000000.raw.tar.gz

      The tar file contains the following individual daily files:
      sgpiapageX1.00.YYYYMMDD.000000.raw.ageYYYY_DDD_N.iap.zip

      The processed data that will eventually be turned into netCDF files are
      in zip-files of the form: ageYYYY_DDD_N.iap.zip, where N is
      alpha-sequential numbering to distinguish separate flights on the same
      day(A,B, ...). Typical sizes: 100kB to 400kB


No.3: sgpiapagesX1.00.yyyymm01.000000.raw.tar.gz

      The tar file contains the following individual daily files:
      sgpiapagesX1.00.YYYYMMDD.000000.raw.ageSYYYY_DDD_N.iap.zip
      
      Averages for "interesting (i.e. level)" flight segments are in
      files of the form: ageSYYYY_DDD_N.iap.zip
      Typical sizes: 0.4kB to 0.9kB


      where, yyyymmdd are the year, month and day of the date of the file


Source Instrument(s): In-situ Aerosol Profiles (Cessna Aerosol Flights)

External Data Source: Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory(CMDL), NOAA

Instrument Mentor(s): John Ogren

Transfer Schedule: 

       We are planning to send the backlog files starting 09/18/2000. 
       
Additional Notes:

      For more information on the data, please visit the Web site at http://wwwsrv.cmdl.noaa.gov/aero/net/iap/