UTLS-Ozone NASA-Ames filenaming conventions

Description

When submitting files to the BADC please ensure that the files comply to the agreed conventions. The file name is used to automatically move the file into the appropriate directory in the BADC archive. It is therefore important that all files are given the correct name.

The filenames for NASA-Ames files are determined, in part, by the NASA-Ames Format for Data Exchange. The filename is of the form ppYYMMDD.xxx, where pp is a two character prefix, YYMMDD is a six character date and xxx is a file extension of up to 3 characters. A commonly adopted convention, which will be implemented for UTLS-OZONE files, is that the prefix indicates the site or platform from which the measurements were made, and the extension gives and indication of the instruement and physical or chemical quantity measured. The date is the date on which the observations recored in the file started. At the BADC the prefix suffix for a particular site or instrument are inherited from previous field campaings such as ACSOE.

Components of filename

Prefix

Allowed values:

Start date

e.g. '990110' represents 10th January 1999

Extension

Allowed values: