OBJDESC

This record type begins the specification of each data object. It contains information on the enumeration of dimension orders and the number of items for various descriptor record types.

name

RECTYPE

I

is the record type code = 1

VARTYPE

I

is the physical quantity code for the data object. This code is explained in Section A.1.3

RESERV0

I

is reserved for future expansion

NDIM0

I

is the number of Level 0 dimensions (Level 0 order)

NDIM1

I

is the number of Level 1 dimensions (Level 1 order)

NDIM2

I

is the number of Level 2 dimensions (Level 2 order)

NDIM3

I

is the number of Level 3 dimensions (Level 3 order)

RESERV1

I

is reserved for future expansion

ISOURCE

I

is the data source code. This code is explained in Section A.2.2

RESERV2

I

is reserved for future expansion

RESERV3

I

is reserved for future expansion

NAUDIT

I

is the number of nodes in the AUDIT.TREE field. (Must be greater than zero)

NINFO

I

is the number of bytes in the INFOSPEC.INFO field. If zero, then there will be no INFOSPEC record

NCOMMS

I

is the number of COMMENT records which follows. If zero, then there will be no COMMENT records

COMCOD

I

is the character string format code for the COMMENT.NOTES field. This code is explained in Section A.1.1

RESERV4

I

is reserved for future expansion

NBADS

I

is the number of BADVAL records which follow. If zero, then there are no BADVAL records, which implies that there are no bad or missing data in this data object

RESERV5

I

is reserved for future expansion

NPROCS

I

is the number of Procgroups which follow. If zero, then there are no Procgroup records, which implies that there is no processing information

RESERV6

I

is reserved for future expansion

NPACKS

I

is the number of Packgroups which follow. If zero, then there are no Packgroup records, which implies that the data are not packed

RESERV7

I

is reserved for future expansion

NAUX

I

is the number of AUXSPEC records which follow. If zero, then there will be no AUXSPEC records.

CMPNUM

I

is the number of COMPDAT records present in the dataset, as well as the number of elements in the COMPLEN.LENGTHS record field which follows. Normally, there will be only one COMPDAT record (or none at all), but for especially long files, or given constraints of certain computer languages, it may be advisable to split the compressed data into several records of arbitrary lengths, recorded here. If CMPNUM is zero, then there are no Compgroup or COMPDAT records

RESERV8

I

is reserved for future expansion

RESERV9

I

is reserved for future expansion

RESERV10

I

is reserved for future expansion