Example of a Skinny DIF
Entry_ID: OAR0005
Entry_Title: COADS Ship Observations (Monthly Mean)
Group: Personnel
Role: Technical Contact
First_Name: DONALD
Middle_Name: R.
Last_Name: MOCK
Email: DRM@NOAACRD.COLORADO.EDU
Phone: 303-497-6640
Group: Address
OAR MASC
325 Broadway Street
Boulder, CO 80303-3328
USA
End_Group
End_Group
Discipline: EARTH SCIENCE
Group: Parameters
Category: EARTH SCIENCE
Topic: ATMOSPHERE
Term: CLOUDS
End_Group
Group: Parameters
Category: EARTH SCIENCE
Topic: ATMOSPHERE
Term: ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR
Variable: WATER VAPOR
Detailed_Variable: Specific Humidity
End_Group
Group: Parameters
Category: EARTH SCIENCE
Topic: ATMOSPHERE
Term: ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
Variable: AIR TEMPERATURE
End_Group
Group: Parameters
Category: EARTH SCIENCE
Topic: ATMOSPHERE
Term: ATMOSPHERIC WINDS
Variable: WIND STRESS
End_Group
Group: Parameters
Category: EARTH SCIENCE
Topic: ATMOSPHERE
Term: ATMOSPHERIC WINDS
Variable: SURFACE WINDS
Detailed_Variable: VECTOR WINDS
End_Group
Group: Parameters
Category: EARTH SCIENCE
Topic: OCEANS
Term: OCEAN TEMPERATURE
Variable: SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE
Detailed_Variable: SST
End_Group
Group: Parameters
Category: EARTH SCIENCE
Topic: OCEANS
Term: OCEAN WINDS
Variable: WIND STRESS
End_Group
Group: Parameters
Category: EARTH SCIENCE
Topic: OCEANS
Term: OCEAN WINDS
Variable: SURFACE WINDS
Detailed_Variable: VECTOR WINDS
End_Group
Keyword: CLOUDINESS
Location: BOUNDARY LAYER
Location: SEA SURFACE
Originating_Center: NOAA/OAR/CMDL
Group: Data_Center
Data_Center_Name: NOAA/OAR/CMDL > Climate Monitoring Diagnostic Laboratory, NOAA
Group: Personnel
Role: Data Center Contact
First_Name: DONALD
Middle_Name: R.
Last_Name: MOCK
Email: DRM@NOAACRD.COLORADO.EDU
Phone: 303-497-6640
Group: Address
OAR MASC
325 Broadway Street
Boulder, CO 80303-3328
USA
End_Group
End_Group
End_Group
Group: Summary
This directory entry was created from information gathered in a survey
conducted as part of NOAA's Data System Modernization program.
The following parameters were identified for this data set in the
survey:
Air Temperature,
Sea Surface Temperature,
Spec. Hum.,
Vector Winds,
Wind Stress,
Cloudiness.
[A more complete version of this directory entry is in progress]
End_Group
IDN_Node: USA/NOAA
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