How to read data

Data is packed into zip files that must be decompressed. Once you decompress the zipped file you will get an ASCII file (*.dat) containing the following structure.

At the beginning of the file is a section for information identifying the data source. The section can contain lines for name of the organization, for name of the experiment, for date of the experiment, and for other additional information in a free order and format. After the identification section there is a line having a '/' character at the beginning of the line as an end of the section mark. The rest of the file contains parameter names, units, and values in one or more data sets in the format shown below.

• time followed by nine (or less in the last set) other parameter names left aligned in 13 characters wide columns
• units of the parameters left aligned in 13 characters wide columns without spaces in the middle
• time followed by nine (or less in the last set) parameter values in 13 characters wide columns where first one is blank and the rest of the column is in scientific form

Example: