  1.  NAME

  GFI DNMI - Quick Reference for DNMI CODAS Databases

  2.  DESCRIPTION

  This manual page describes how to create CODAS databases from DNMI
  data files, with emphasis on the related utilities at GFI.

  Currently implemented DNMI input files and associated producer
  definition files are:

  o  2D Tidal Model (DNMI_2DT.def)

  This class of data files is meant to contain results from numerical
  models from The Norwegian Meteorological Institute. For this purpose,
  three CODAS database block variables have been added: X, Y and Z.
  Because the format of these files is very primitive, access and
  movements through these is very slow. Hence, selecting an area of
  interest and loading it into a CODAS database will accelerate
  processing steps involving these data.

  The main utility for loading these data is loaddnmi(1).

  3.  SEE ALSO

     gfiindex(5)
        Index of all GFI extensions.

  4.  AUTHOR

  Pierre Jaccard, Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, 1999.

