Technical Report No. ? - DKRZ

DKRZ GRIB/EXTRA Format Module Documentation
Parameters starting with ’r’ for result file name
rfp result file prefix
rfi result file infix
rfs result file suffix
Prefix, infix and suffix to form result file names.
Defaults are empty strings.
Result file names are formed as
"rfp [rfc] [rfy ily] year rfi [rfm ilm] month rfs" ,
where appearance of parameters in brackets depends on number of characters in year and
month.
rfy result file yearpad
rfm result file monthpad
rfc result file centurypad
Result file name padding for year and month number.
Default is no padding, i.e. empty strings.
If padding is on, one-digit year and month numbers are prefixed by rfy and rfm, resp. to
form two-digit numbers used for result file names.
Padding with rfc is done for one- or two-digit year numbers only.
Result file padding should be used only, if intape label padding does not suffice to form
lexically ordered result files.
Use ‘no’ to specify empty strings.
Parameters for recursive procedure calls
exp experiment
Experiment mnemonic name.
A prefix of ‘=’ is replaced by the actual value of emp, exp is translated to upper case,
‘==’ is appended, then file epl is searched for lines starting with the resulting pattern.
From all matching lines the first epc characters are cut away and parameter exp is
replaced by the remaining line parts.
emp experiment mnemonic prefix
Prefix for experiment mnemonic names. Default is the empty string.
Used to simplify loops over mnemonic names with similar prefixes.
epc experiment parameter cut
Experiment parameter list cutcount.
Default is 30.
Number of characters cut away from lines in epl starting with exp==.
epl experiment parameter list
Experiment parameter list file.
Default is =main.
This file contains frequently used parameters.
As the order of parameters is retained over recursive procedure calls, one can switch
between several parameter list files.
A prefix of ‘=’ is equivalent to a directory containing files with tape structure information
for all experiments known to the author.
When using specifications from these files, parameters describing input tapes (i.e. those
starting with ‘i’) should be omitted.
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