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Element

Format

Description

GeneralExportForecastSection ComplexType

archiveFolder

string

Export destination folder, assumes that the account running the FEWS (FSS) application has write access

relativePeriod

Exports entire external forecast dataset by source and forecast time, for any forecast where a database change (blob creation time) is detected within the relativePeriod (relative to T0). Existing timeseries files are overwritten*
If no relativePeriod is specified the external forecast with the latest forecast time is exported

idMap

string

idMap applied to translate internal FEWS identifiers to identifiers that meet NetCDF-CF criteria.E.g. netcdf does not allow a full stop ('.') in the variable name

ExternalForecastActivities ComplexType

NetcdfExternalForecast ExportActivities ComplexType

NetcdfExternalForecast ExportActivity ComplexType*

fileName

string

without nc extension, preferably no spaces

areaId

string

area to which the dataset belongs

sourceId

identifies underlying source e.g. NWP product

ncMetaData

string elem.

optional metadata tags within NetCDF file following CF convention. Supported by the internal catalogue of the THREDDS Data Server

includeFlags

bool

only applied for scalar values.
default=TRUE; if TRUE, a list of flags is stored, with each value pointing to the associated flag

includeComments

bool

only applied for scalar values.
default=TRUE; if TRUE, a list of comments is stored, with each value pointing to the associated comment

only applied for scalar values. Not valid for ensembles.

default = TRUE; if TRUE, time-start and time-end properties will be stored if available.

only applied for scalar values. Not valid for ensembles.

default = TRUE; if TRUE, value-start and value-end properties will be stored if available.

timeSeriesSets

FEWS timeseries sets