This example represents a 54 hour accumulation of a field produced by a forecast started on 20120101 00Z.
- In bold, the values are fixed. They are meant to be used by all partners
- In green, these are the values for the example.
| Time ( accumulated ) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start of forecast ( section 1 ) | |||||||
Octets reforecast | Octets real time | Fixed values to be used by all the partners | Example | Values | Meaning of values | ||
| 12 | 12 | Significance of Reference Time | =1 | Start of forecast | = 1|||
| 13-14 | 13-14 | Year (four digits) | 2012 | year of start of forecast | = 2012|||
| 15 | 15 | Month | 01 | month of start of forecast | = 01 | ||
| 16 | 16 | Day | 01 | day of start of forecast | = 01|||
| 17 | 17 | Hour | 00 | hour of start of forecast | = 00 | ||
| Accumulation ( section 4 ) | |||||||
| 18 | 18 | Indicator of unit of time range | = 1 | Hour | = 1 | ||
| 19-22 | 19-22 | Forecast time | = 0 | Accumulation starts at step=0=0 | |||
| 45-46 | 38-39 | year of end of overall time interval | 2012 |
End of accumulated period | = 2012, 20120103 06Z | ||
| 47 | 40 | month of end of overall time interval | = 01 | ||||
| 48 | 41 | day of end of overall time interval | = 03 | ||||
| 49 | 42 | hour of end of overall time interval | = 0006 | ||||
| 52 | 45 | number of time ranges | =1 | Only one type of time statistics used (accumulation) | =1 | ||
| 53-56 | 46-49 | total number of data values missing in statistical process | = 0 | = 0 | |||
| 57 | 50 | Statistical process used to calculate the processed field from the field at each time increment during the time range | = 1 | Accumulation | = 1 | ||
| 58 | 51 | Type of time increment between successive fields used in the statistical processing | = 2 | Successive times processed have same start time of forecast, forecast time is incremented | = 2|||
| 59 | 52 | Indicator of unit of time for time range over which statistical processing is done | = 1 | Hour | = 1|||
| 60-63 | 53-56 | Length of the time range over which statistical processing is done, in units defined by the previous octet | 54 | Time step (in hour) at the end of the accumulation | = 48from start of forecast | ||
| 64 | 57 | Indicator of unit of time for the increment between the successive fields used | = 255 | Missing | = 255|||
| 65-68 | 58-61 | Time increment between successive fields, in units defined by the previous octet | = 255 | Missing | = 255|||