Brief documentation on raw data formats used by RCPM
Your raw data may have two different formats: a special binary
format that has been developed at the IBK and an ASCII format. In
both cases RCPM
will only run, if the name of the raw data starts with date and time
section like:
YYYYMODD_HHMI_... or YYMODD_HHMI_....
Apart from a maximum length (256 characters, incl. path) the rest
doesn't matter very much for the programme but should be used in a
reasonable manner.
As an example: 20050226_1115_Franks_Birthday.dat.
Beyond that you may only use uo to a maximum of 32 variables in the raw
data.
raw data format
Here, I do only describe the ASCII format. This is an example.
# x,y,z,t,
-2.24 ,-0.08 ,-0.01 ,25.05 ,
-2.13 ,0.01 ,-0.03 ,24.98 ,
-2.12 ,0.16 ,0 ,25.07 ,
-2.2 ,0.06 ,-0.03 ,24.98 ,
All entries are generally comma separated. The first record
contains header information. The variable names in the header are
important to let RCPM
know, what is what.
Despite all freedom how to name the variables, the first 4 variables
are always the x, y ,z components and the sonic temperature. All the
other variables can
be used to produce the typical statistical output.
© Andreas Ibrom
Author Andreas Ibrom Date: 26.02.2005
Risø National Laboratory
BIO-ECO Byg. 309
Frederiksborgvej 399
DK-4000 Roskilde