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- 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 | Values | Meaning of values | ||
| 12 | 12 | Significance of Reference Time | 1 | Start of forecast | |
| 13-14 | 13-14 | Year (four digits) | 2012 | year of start of forecast | |
| 15 | 15 | Month | 01 | month of start of forecast | |
| 16 | 16 | Day | 01 | day of start of forecast17 | |
| 17 | Hour | 00 | hour of start of forecast | ||
| Accumulation ( section 4 ) | |||||
| 18 | 18 | Indicator of unit of time range | 1 | Hour | 19-22|
| 19-22 | Forecast time | 0 | Accumulation starts at step=0 | ||
| 45-46 | 38-39 | year of end of overall time interval | 2012 |
End of accumulated period, 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 | 06 | 52||
| 45 | number of time ranges | 1 | Only one type of time statistics used (accumulation) | ||
| 53-56 | 46-49 | total number of data values missing in statistical process | 0 | 57 | |
| 50 | Statistical process used to calculate the processed field from the field at each time increment during the time range | 1 | Accumulation | 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 | 59||
| 52 | Indicator of unit of time for time range over which statistical processing is done | 1 | Hour | 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 from start of forecast | 64||
| 57 | Indicator of unit of time for the increment between the successive fields used | 255 | Missing | 65-68||
| 58-61 | Time increment between successive fields, in units defined by the previous octet | 255 | Missing | ||