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The standard label for NMC data sets

Published Date:

1990

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Corporate Authors:

National Meteorological Center (U.S.)

Series:

Office note (National Meteorological Center (U.S.)) ; 85

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Description:

"This Office Note describes the format to be used in constructing the internal Data Set Label that should appear in the first record of any and all data sets (files) generated during production runs at NMC. The label should be present in the data set whether the data set resides on magnetic or optical disk, cartridge, tape, or any other media. It contains an assortment of information needed to identify the contents of the data set, its format when originally constructed, and when and where it was created"--Purpose.

Document Type:

Professional Paper

Collection(s):

National Weather Service (NWS)

Place as Subject:

United States

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