MODEL SPECIFICATION FILE ======================== This file is used to define a generalised linear model for daily rainfall. After this header, there is a row for defining the 'trace value' threshold (i.e. the value such that rainfall amounts less than this will be flagged but recorded as zero), then one line in the file for an overall description of the model (which will appear in summary output files), and then a row for every covariate in the model. Each of these rows looks something like this: COMPONENT BETA CODE1 CODE2 CODE3 TEXT where: COMPONENT is 0 if we're defining the constant term in the model 1 if we're dealing with a main site effect 2 if we're dealing with a main 'year' effect 3 if we're dealing with a main 'month' effect 4 if we're dealing with previous days' rainfall 5 if we're dealing with previous days' trace values 6 if we're defining 2-way interactions 7 if we're defining 3-way interactions 8 if we're defining nonlinear transformations 9 to specify a nuisance parameter 10 for spatial structure and occupies positions 1-5 of the record BETA is the coefficient for this covariate in the model, occupying positions 6-15 of the record CODE1} are used to define the covariates to the system. CODE2} The interpretation varies depending on the value CODE3} of COMPONENT: tables of codes can be found in the program documentation. CODE1 occupies positions 16-20; CODE2 occupies positions 21-25 and CODE3 occupies positions 26-30. CODE2 and CODE3 are used only for defining interactions. TEXT contains descriptive text for this covariate, and appears after position 31. It is not used by the program. It is vital that this positioning is adhered to, for each record will be read using the FORTRAN format I5,F10.6,3I5,A40. This header is 47 lines long. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0.00 <-- Trace threshold NETHERLANDS DMWS MODEL 1 - 3 PREVIOUS DAYS 0 1.8992 Constant 4 0.0000 1 2 4 0.0000 2 2 4 0.0000 3 2 8 5.3214 Nuisance parameter