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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