Freezing and Melting Depth of Soil Data
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	As with the other data sets, there are six files of these
data each corresponding to one particular station.

	Yersh.frz = Yershov
	Tulun.frz = Tulun
	Uralsk.frz = Uralsk
	Kost.frz = Kostroma
	Khab.frz = Khabarovsk
	Ogurt.frz = Ogurtsovo


	The data is arranged as follows:  A 24-line block consists
of a year's worth of soil freezing/melting data.  One line of data
represents a month's worth of measurements.  Both freezing and
melting measurements are taken on the 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, 25th,
and the last day of each month (as far as the EXACT time of the
day, I don't know but you could probably assume it near the middle
of the day).  To read in ONE MONTH'S worth of soil freezing/
melting data, use the following format in FORTRAN:

	read (unit#,15) freezedepth
	read (unit#,15) meltdepth
15	format(6f4.0)

	So basically, a two-line block of data represents one
month of data with the top line the freezing data and the bottom
line the melting data.  NOTE: using the format above will give
you depth units of CENTIMETERS.

	NOTE ON THE MELTING DATA:
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		A value of '200' is used to denote that the soil
		is COMPETELY melted.

	MISSING DATA OR MEASUREMENT NOT TAKEN:
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		Denoted by a value of '9999'


	That should about do it.  Any problems with the data just
let me know.  Good luck!

	
	C. Adam Schosser
	COLA/IGES
	4041 Powder Mill Rd., Suite 302
	Calverton, MD 20705
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