The sample read program for ERBE Total Solar Irradiance data set is written in the C language. Dec Alpha V4.0A, SGI Irix 6.2, and HP UNIX-based workstations. All library functions in the C source codes are tested for ANSI C conformance. This section illustrates the invocation of the executable file. It prompts the user for all input.
All output is printed to the user's standard output device.
In most cases, this the standard output is printing all output to the screen. The high-level data set descriptions, the data files, the variables in the data files, and the contacts for data production are given under each data set. The data files are organized by six month increments. An underscore character follows the beginning date. Data granules consist of six consecutive months of data.