NOAA KLM User's GuideSection 9.3.1.3 |
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Acronyms,This file contains one season or one year of mean radiation budget data. It contains 25 records. The first record is the header. It contains six types of data: HIRS Night OLR, HIRS Day OLR, AVHRR Night OLR, AVHRR Day OLR, Available Solar Energy, and AVHRR SW Absorbed Radiation. Each type of data is associated with four records (the Northern Hemisphere pair and the Southern Hemisphere pair). The format of the header record has already been described in Table 9.3.1.2-1. The first data record of a hemisphere pair is described in Table 9.3.1.3-1, while data record 2 of a hemisphere pair is shown in Table 9.3.1.3-2.
| Field | Bytes | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPARE | 1-2 | I*2 | SPARE |
| BCDDAY | 3-4 | I*2 | The actual day number, relative to the satellite Epoch, of the first day in the period covered in file l (i.e. for monthly means the day is the relative to the first day of the month). |
| SPARES | 5-12 | I*2 | SPARES |
| RCTYPE1 | 13-14 | I*2 | The indicator for the first record of the hemisphere: 02 = Record 1 for the Northern Hemisphere; 04 = Record 1 for the Southern Hemisphere. |
| SPARE | 15-16 | I*2 | SPARE |
| FIELD | 17-18 | I*2 | The Field mnemonic. (See Table 9.3.1.1-4). |
| NORS | 19-20 | I*2 | The hemisphere indicator: 0= North; 1= South. |
| BEGINDATE | 21-24 | 2 I*2 | The start time as YYYYMM of the data in the record. |
| SPARE | 25-26 | I*2 | SPARE |
| ENDDATEF | 27-30 | 2 I*2 | The end time as YYYYMM of the data in the record. |
| SPARES | 31-276 | I*2 | SPARES |
| I2MAP | 277-23,476 | I*2 | The mean values of the first 11,600 I*2 elements of the 20,626 elements of the Equal Areas/Equal Aspect Map |
| Field | Bytes | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| RECTYP2 | 1-2 | I*2 | The indicator for the second record of the hemisphere: 03=Record 2 for the Northern Hemisphere; 05=Record 2 for the Southern Hemisphere. |
| FIELD | 3-4 | I*2 | The Field mnemonic. (See Table 9.3.1.1-4). |
| NORS | 5-6 | I*2 | The hemisphere indicator: 0= North; 1= South. |
| NCELL | 7-186 | 90 I*2 | The number of longitude bins in each of 90 latitude bands of the (current) Equal Areas/Equal Aspect Pathfinder Maps starting at the pole and abutting (to the west) the Greenwich Meridian. |
| SPARES | 187-276 | I*2 | SPARES |
| I2MAP | 277- 18,328 | I*2 | The mean values of the last 9026 I*2 elements of the 20626 elements of the Equal Areas/Equal Aspect Map |
| SPARES | 18,329-22,036 | I*2 | SPARES |
| E2MAP | 22,037-23,476 | I*2 | The 720 I*2 mean elements of the equatorial band data for the hemisphere |
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