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MARS

Specifies how to pad GRIB or BUFR messages.

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padding=<value>

For historical reasons, each GRIB message retrieved is padded to a multiple of 120 bytes, and each BUFR message to a multiple of 8 bytes. e.g. padding=0 can be specified for no padding.

Example:

padding=0
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switch padding

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off

Dissemination

Specifies how to pad GRIB or BUFR messages.

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padding=<value>

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The meaning of AUTO is120 bytes for GRIB data and 8 bytes for BUFR data

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number of bytes to which multiple the binary message is padded to with NULL bytes;

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Deprecated

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Keywords in MARS and Dissemination requests
Keywords in MARS and Dissemination requests
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