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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	twpgms5kapX1.00                 1 /month         ~25000000
 2	twpgms5manX1.00                 1 /month         ~25000000
 3	twpgms5nauX1.00                 1 /month         ~25000000
 4	twpgms5tarX1.00                 1 /month         ~25000000
 5	twpgms5whoX1.00                 1 /month         ~25000000

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Data Stream Name(s) and Comments:

No.1: twpgms5kapX1.00.yyyymm01.000000.raw.tar

      The tar file contains the following individual files:
      twpgms5kapX1.00.yyyymmdd.hhmmss.raw

No.2: twpgms5manX1.00.yyyymm01.000000.raw.tar

      The tar file contains the following individual files:
      twpgms5manX1.00.yyyymmdd.hhmmss.raw

No.3: twpgms5nauX1.00.yyyymm01.000000.raw.tar

      The tar file contains the following individual files:
      twpgms5nauX1.00.yyyymmdd.hhmmss.raw

No.4: twpgms5tarX1.00.yyyymm01.000000.raw.tar

      The tar file contains the following individual files:
      twpgms5tarX1.00.yyyymmdd.hhmmss.raw

No.5: twpgms5whoX1.00.yyyymm01.000000.raw.tar

      The tar file contains the following individual files:
      twpgms5whoX1.00.yyyymmdd.hhmmss.raw

      where, yyyymmdd are the year, month and day of the file. 
             hhmmss are the  hour, minute and second of the file.

      kap, man, nau and tar are four ARCS sites.
      They represent islands Kapingimarangi, Manus, Nauru and Tarawa.
      who is IMET buoy. 




Source Instrument(s): 

External Data Source: Seaspace

Instrument Mentor(s):  Peter Minnett

Transfer Schedule: 

       We have files covering 19961011-present. We will send the backlog of
       data starting  10/30/2000. We then will send the data as it is available.

Additional Notes:
        
       The data is in TDF format. It is generated from "raw" data on tape.
       Please see 
       http://www.xdc.arm.gov/docs/data_info/release_forms/twpgms5.release.html
       for the detailed information on the data.