We use 1998JAN04 1200 UTC (98010412) as an example.
Find data - Locate p-G00155 line (with data between 19980103 and 19980105) in
Data-Type of VSN's for MAPS mords.
The MAPS molts is in p-G00159 line. The vsns to get are /DSS/G00155 and /DSS/G00159 from
Mass Storage System (MSS).
Get data - To read G00155 and G00159 back from MSS, make sure you have enough disk space.
Then issue 'msread -fBI G00155 /DSS/G00155' and 'msread -fBI G00159 /DSS/G00159'.
The local disk files retrieved (G00155 and G00159) are unix tar files with a fixed
blocksize of 32768 bytes. If you are not sure what individual data files in tar files to
extract, make tar lists such as 'tar tvf G00155 > G00155.tarlst'. Or, you can browse
the entire tar lists of the year from Complete Tar Lists.
Say you want to extract 9800412009800.grib and 9800412009900.grib data. The following tar
command will do: 'tar xvf G00155 98004/9800412009800.grib 98004/9800412009900.grib'
and a subdirectory `98004' will be created to contain 9800412009800.grib and
9800412009900.grib files.
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