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DATSAV Surface Meteorological Data Converter
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Purpose:
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	  Reads one file of surface meteorological data obtained from
          NCDC in the Abbreviated, Space-Delimited DATSAV3 (TD9956)
          format, and converts data for one station to the CD144 format.
          The time period extracted from this file is specified by the
          user.  Missing hours are left blank, and are later filled
          with missing value indicators by SMERGE when merging these
          data with those from other stations in a SURF.DAT file for
          CALMET.

Demonstration:
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          Prepare a CD144-format file for one year, for one station,
          from a DATSAV file containing data for 4 stations.


Files for Demonstration:
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   NAME        TYPE     SIZE(bytes)             DESCRIPTION
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 DATSAV.EXE   Program       273,071     Executable

 DATSAV.INP   Input           1,092     Control file for 1 station
 4AV_CORU.TXT Input       2,234,132     DATSAV3 (abbr., space-delimited)

 80110.144    Output        539,178     CD144 Met Data for SMERGE
 80110.LST    Output        147,288     List-file for run



Procedure:
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1.  One application of DATSAV produces a CD144 file for one station.

2.  Run the application by typing:

    DATSAV [return]

3.  The program reads the processing instructions from DATSAV.INP, and
    overwrites the 80110.144 and 80110.lst files listed above.

4.  Review the .LST file for the configuration used, and intermediate
    information.
