MARS
Specifies how to pad GRIB or BUFR messages.
padding=<value> |
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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 # to switch padding off |
Dissemination
Specifies how to pad GRIB or BUFR messages.
padding=<value> |
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| Value | Note |
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AUTO | The meaning of AUTO is120 bytes for GRIB data and 8 bytes for BUFR data current default |
| NONE | no padding |
| n | number of bytes to which multiple the binary message is padded to with NULL bytes; 120 bytes for GRIB data and 8 bytes for BUFR data are the only values supported |