TOVS DATA FORMATS FOR GALE

A subset of TOVS data for the GALE region is available for downloading on a 2.50 x 2.50 degree equal angle grid, in either IEEE floating point or ASCII text format.

The data is gridded on a 2.50 x 2.50 degree equal angle global grid. The subset grid is 16 x 10 (longitude x latitude) and has a total of 160 cells. Longitude varies first, and begins at 90W and proceeds eastward to 50W in increments of 2.50 degrees. Latitude begins at 25N and proceeds northward to 50N in increments of 2.50 degrees.

IEEE floating point format

Data is written using the IEEE standard for floating-point representation.

ASCII text format

Data is written with a field width of 10 characters. The precision is 3 decimal places.

SPECIAL DATA VALUES:

• Missing data are assigned the value -1000.0

FILE SIZES

• 2.50 degree equal angle grid, IEE floating point: 640 bytes
• 2.50 degree equal angle grid, ASCII text: 1600 bytes

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