MJ MAHONEY (Michael.J.Mahoney@jpl.nasa.gov), Julie Haggerty (haggerty@ucar.edu)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA      NCAR, Boulder, CO
NGV Microwave Temperature Profiler (MTP/NGV)
TORERO
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19             {number of normally included comment lines}
Here's a brief free-form tutorial on how to decipher the MTP data: Data groups
   consist of the following group of lines per 15-second observing cycle.
First line is:  UTSEC, number of retrieval levels in following table, Pressure 
   Altitude, Pitch, Roll, Outside air temp (K), tropopause altitude #1 (km), 
   tropopause altitude #2 (km) [if present], potential temperatures of tropopause 
   #1 and #2, latitude, longitude, & lapse rate near flight level.  
   The 1-liners (for each cycle) can be stripped & imported into a spreadsheet 
   for convenient plotting of trop altitude, lapse rate, etc. The tropopause
   altitudes are calculated by cubic spline interpolation of the retrieved 
   altitudes using the WMO definition (that is, trop #1 is lowest altitude 
   where average lapse rate > -2 K/km from initial -2 K/km point to any point 
   within 2 km; trop #2 occurs above first trop after lapse rate is < -3K/km 
   for >1 km, and then first trop definition applies, possibly from within
   the 1 km region.)
Remaining set of lines for each cycle consist of 5 columns: col#1 is pressure 
   altitude (meters), col#2 is temperature from MTP (Kelvin), col#3 is temperature
   error estimate (K), col#4 is geometric altitude (meters), based on GPS 
   altitude (meters), and col#5 is molecular air density [1E+21/m3].