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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 ()


    File Information:

	Filename format(s):	
				Raw Data:
				twpgms5diagkapX1.a1.yymm01.000000.asc.tar.gz
				twpgms5diagmanX1.a1.yymm01.000000.asc.tar.gz
				twpgms5diagnauX1.a1.yymm01.000000.asc.tar.gz
				twpgms5diagtarX1.a1.yymm01.000000.asc.tar.gz
				twpgms5diagwhoX1.a1.yymm01.000000.asc.tar.gz
				twpgms5diagtwpX1.a1.yymm01.000000.asc.tar.gz
				
	Frequency:		
	                        twpgms5diag(site)X1.00.yymm01.000000.asc.tar.gz
                                one file per month. It contains the 
                                following individual files:
 
                                twpgms5diag(site)X1.a1.yymmdd.hhmmss.ir1
                                (ir3 or vis).lat(or lon)
                                one file per hour at each channel per site
                                expected with the exception of two files per 
                                hour for 0500, 1100, 1700 and 2300. The 
                                maximum is 168 files/day per site.

                                where site = kap,man,nau,tar,who and twp

                                For example: the following is the list of files
                                for 961012 for the site Kapian.

                                twpgms5diagkapX1.a1.961012.hhmm00.ir1.lat 
                                  (28 files/day)
                                twpgms5diagkapX1.a1.961012.hhmm00.ir1.lon 
                                  (28 files/day)
                                twpgms5diagkapX1.a1.961012.hhmm00.ir3.lat
                                  (28 files/day) 
                                twpgms5diagkapX1.a1.961012.hhmm00.ir3.lon 
                                  (28 files/day)
                                twpgms5diagkapX1.a1.961012.hhmm00.vis.lat
                                  (28 files/day) 
                                twpgms5diagkapX1.a1.961012.hhmm00.vis.lon 
                                  (28 files/day)





        File size(s):           twpgms5diag(site)X1.a1.yymm01.000000.asc.tar.gz
                                 ~476726 bytes/file
                                where site = kap,man,nau,tar and who

                                twpgms5diagtwpX1.a1.yymm01.000000.asc.tar.gz
                                 ~70272205 bytes/file
                                

                   
                                                         	

    Source Instrument(s): 

    External Date Source:  External Data Center

    Instrument Mentor(s):  Peter Minnett


Additional Notes:

  Six diagnostic files are generated for each file during the ingest process.
  The six diagnostics are latitude and longitude sections of the
  image from the visble and infrared channels for each of the ARM locations.
  The diagnostic file is an ASCII file.

  Diagnostic files can be used to create daily and monthly temporal 
  distribution Hovmuller gif files. Web based data viewers use these files
  to provide a quick overview of the conditions, data quality and data 
  availability during a particular time period as depicted by the satellite 
  imagery.

  We have files covering 10/11/96 - 08/01/97 at present. Beginning on 
  09/22/97, we are planning to send out the one month's worth of backlog data 
  per day for the next couple of days. We will then send the one month's worth
  of data (~6 files) at the end of each month.