June 4, 2001 MEMORANDUM TO: Record FROM: Dennis A. Keyser -- W/NMC22 Subject: CRISIS change to IBM-SP Data Preprocessor (PREPDATA) CRISIS!!!! Subroutine IW3UNPBF was modified to handle expanded quality information in the EUMETSAT wind reports in the input "satwnd" data dump files. On 5 June 2001, EUMETSAT is adding quality information which is not based on a first guess, in addition to quality information currently present which is based on a first guess. The quality information based on a first guess will continue to be decoded here. [IW3UNPBF]