&record0
 input_file     = '../LITTLE_R/LITTLE_R_DOMAIN1'/  ! objective analysis or
                                                 ! First-guess file name

&record1
 start_year     =  1993                          ! The starting and
 start_month    =    03                          ! ending dates to
 start_day      =    13                          ! process
 start_hour     =    00                          !
 end_year       =  1993                          !
 end_month      =    03                          !
 end_day        =    14                          ! 
 end_hour       =    00                          !
 interval       = 43200                          ! time difference (s)
 less_than_24h  = .FALSE. /                      ! if input is less than 24 h

&record2
 sigma_f_bu     = 1.00,0.99,0.98,0.96,0.93,0.89, ! full sigma, bottom-up,
                  0.85,0.80,0.75,0.70,0.65,0.60, ! start with 1.0, end
                  0.55,0.50,0.45,0.40,0.35,0.30, ! with 0.0
                  0.25,0.20,0.15,0.10,0.05,0.00  !
 ptop           = 10000
 isfc           = 0 /                             ! # sigma levels to spread
                                                 ! surface information

&record3
 p0             = 1.e5                           ! base state sea-level pres (Pa)
 tlp            = 50.                            ! base state lapse rate d(T)/d(ln P)
 ts0            = 275.                           ! base state sea-level temp (K)
 tiso           = 0./                            ! base state isothermal stratospheric temp (K)

&record4
 removediv      = .TRUE.                         ! T/F remove integrated mean divergence
 usesfc         = .TRUE.                         ! T/F use surface data 
 wrth2o         = .TRUE.                         ! T/F specific humidity wrt H2O
 psfc_method = 0 /                          ! 0 => (Tsfc+Tslv)/2 , 1 => diurnally avg temp

&record5
 ifdatim        = -1 /                           ! # of IC time periods to output