GRIB2 - GRID DEFINITION TEMPLATE 3.1200

Time Section Grid

Created 08/09/2005

Preliminary Note:  This template is simply experimental, was not
validated at the time of publication and should be
used only for bilateral previously-agreed tests.


Octet No. Contents
15-18 NT―number of time steps
19
 Unit of offset from reference time (see Code table 4.4)
20-23
 Offset from reference of first time (negative value when first bit set)
24
 Type of time increment (see Code table 4.11)
25 Unit of time increment (see Code table 4.4)
26-29
 Time increment (negative value when first bit set)
30-36 Last date/time
30-31 Year
32
 Month
33
 Day
34
 Hour
35
 Minute
36
 Second
37-38
 Number of vertical points
39
 Physical meaning of vertical coordinate (see Code table 3.15)
40
 Vertical dimension coordinate values definition (see Code table 3.21)
41-42
 NC ― number of coefficients or values used to specify vertical coordinates
43-(42+NCx4) Coefficients to define vertical dimension coordinate values in functional form, or the explicit coordinate
values (IEEE 32-bit floating-point values)


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