SUB-DIRECTORY STRUCTURE

 SUB-DIRECTORY STRUCTURE:

    YYYY - Year of archived data containing archived storm data in comma
           delimited ATCF format.

    files:  aBBCCYYYY.dat  - guidance information
            bBBCCYYYY.dat  - best track information
            fBBCCYYYY.dat  - fix information
            eBBCCYYYY.dat  - probability information


            BB - basin: al (Atlantic), ep (East Pacific), cp (Central Pacific),
                        and sl (South Atlantic)

            CC - storm number

                 01 - 30   "numbered storms with forecasts
                            issued and numbers are *not* recycled
                            until the next season."

                 90 - 99   "Invest, areas of interest watched
                            by forecasters for possible
                            development and these numbers are
                            re-used periodically throughout the
                            season"

                 80 - 89   "Internal training storm numbers
                            which are to always be ignored"

                 A0 - Z9   "Internal disturbance IDs that are experimental"
                            schema is [A-Z][0-9] which is meant to save the 
                            Invest series into a permenant 2-char system.
                            For example, 90 -> A0, B0, C0, ... (depending upon
                            how many times the 90 has been recycled).
                            
             YYYY - 4-digit Year

 

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