This example represents a daily average valid on 2 January 2012 of a field produced by a real-time forecast started on 20120101 00Z. In this example, where the field is produced 6-hourly, the daily average valid on 20120102  is  the average of steps 24, 30, 36 and 42.

  • 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 ( daily average )
Start of forecast ( section 1 )

Octets

 

 values

 meaning of valuesGrib_api keys
12Significance of Reference Time1Start of forecast 
13-14Year (four digits)2012year of start of forecast


dataDate=20120101

dataTime=0

15Month 01month of start of forecast
16Day01day of start of forecast
17Hour00hour of start of forecast
Daily average ( section 4 e.g. template 4.11 )
18Indicator of unit of time range 1Hour 
19-22Forecast time  24Start of forecast + forecast time = start of average periodstartStep=24
38-39year of end of overall time interval2012

 

End of average period

   

endStep=-48

40month of end of overall time interval01
41day of end of overall time interval03
42hour of end of overall time interval00
45number of time ranges1Only one time statistics applied (average) 
46-49total number of data values missing in statistical process 0  
50

Statistical process used to calculate the processed field

from the field at each time increment during the time range

 0AveragestepType=avg
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

 
52

Indicator of unit of time for time range

over which statistical processing is done

 116-hourlyindicatorOfUnitForTimeRange=11
53-56

Length of the time range over which statistical

processing is done, in units defined by the previous octet

 4Daily averagelengthOfTimeRange=4
57

Indicator of unit of time for the increment between

the successive fields used

116-hourlyindicatorOfUnitForTimeIncrement=11
58-61

Time increment between successive fields,

in units defined by the previous octet

 1

Time frequency used to compute the daily mean

In the example, 1 means that  6-hourly outputs have been

used to compute the average

timeIncrement=1

 

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