THE DECODING OF SHEF MESSAGES USING THE "SHEFPARS" PARSING
ROUTINES Standard Hydrologic Exchange Format (SHEF) was
developed as a prerequisite for automated hydrologic data
exchange. This paper describes how to use the software to parse
shef messages and output them to the desired database system.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 2. Parsing and Posting 3. The Output File,
SHEFOUT 4. Using Shefpars Source Code 5. Error Handling 6.
Source Module Information A. Error Messages B. Downloading
Software Standard Hydrologic Exchange Format (SHEF) (1) is the
standard format used by the National Weather Service for
encoding hydrologic data. SHEF is sufficiently flexible to
handle most hydro-meteorological data and as a result, is used
by many programs within the National Weather Service (NWS) as
well as elements of other government and private agencies. SHEF
has been designed to allow for the automation of data handling
techniques at the same time as maintaining a format which is
visually readable. NWS handbook "Standard Hydrologic E