NASA Ames Format: Comment Fields

All NASA Ames formatted file headers end by a section reserved to comments. This section is divided into two distinct subsections, the Special Comments and the Normal Comments. Normal comments include those that apply to all data of a same data set, i.e. to the NVOL files of that data set. Special comments apply to the data recorded in the considered file (of number IVOL). Comments may include blank lines. The last normal comment lines may include data column headers.

Symbols used

NSCOML Number of special comment lines including blank lines (= 0 if no special comment is given)
NNCOML Number of normal comment lines including blank lines (= 0 if no normal comment is given)
SCOM Special comment lines
NCOM Normal comment lines

Format

Condensed notation

NSCOML
[ SCOM(k) ] k = 1, NSCOML
NNCOML
[ NCOM(k) ] k = 1, NNCOML

Expanded notation

NSCOML Number of special comment lines
SCOM1 First line of special comments
...
SCOMNSCOML Last line of special comments
NNCOML Number of normal comment lines
NCOM1 First line of normal comments
...
NCOMNNCOML Last line of normal comments

Examples

Example 1

0
1
UT (days)    Speed (m/s)    Direction (deg)

Example 2

4
For J(O1D), both radiometers were facing upwards.
For J(NO2), the 2*pi radiometer was facing upwards while
the 4*pi radiometer was facing both upwards and downwards.
THIS-FILE-ENDS = 1999 12 31
7
SITE-NAME = Pritchatts Road
LATITUDE = 52.3 deg
LONGITUDE = -1.56 deg
E-MAIL-CONTACT = xyz@university.ac.uk

UT (days)    J(O1D) (s-1)    J(NO2) (s-1)

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