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Documents Prior to and Using PR98

• The International Multi-Tokamak Profile Database, D Boucher et al, Nuc Fus 40, 1955 (2000): (describes 1998 Public Release.)
• Standard Transport Code: Describes standard transport equations used for model testing
• Transport Code Input Parameter Definitions: Description of the input quantities to be used in the Standard Model Testing codes.
• Tests of Tokamak Transport Models, D Mikkelsen et al, Proceedings of 26th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Maastricht (1999): (model testing results.)
• Plasma confinement and transport, ITER Physics Basis Chapter 2, M Wakatani et al, Nuc Fus 39, 2175 (1999): (places model testing in the context of ITER physics requirements.)

More Recent Technical Documents

• Proposal to Add Equilibrium and Real Space Data (Pedestal Group, April 04)
• More flexible 0D file for post-PR98 0D data
• Overview of Profile Database: presented to the Transport and Pedestal ITPA Groups at San Diego in September 2003
• Introduction to accessing the Profile Database using MDSplus: introductory talk given by Tom Fredian at Princeton in March 2002.

Some Key Documentation

Working PDB Info	Working Profile Database Manual (evolving) Full descriptions of the profile database data (ie comments, 0d, 1D, 2D and equilibrium data), and describing how the data is formatted in the various ASCII files and in the MDSplus tree structure.	Complete variable lists, soon to be updated with new variables for study of impurity transport, INCLUDING THE NEW EQUILIBRIUM BRANCH (from the PEDESTAL PROPOSAL)	ASCII Files to document WDB! variables Comments   0D   1D   2D	Proposed update to PR08 Variables to facilitate impurity transport studies	ASCII Files documenting all proposed Updates to the PR08 Profile Database Variables   2D
PR08 Info	PR08 Profile Database Manual: Full prescriptions of the profile database structure, describing the data present and how it is formatted in the various ASCII files: ie comment files, 0d, 1D and 2D data files.	PR08 Variable Documentation Neater tables of PR08 variables	ASCII files documenting all PR08 variables comments   0D   1D   2D
PR98 Info	PR98 Profile Database Manual: Full prescriptions of the profile database structure, describing the data present and how it is formatted in the various ASCII files: ie comment files, 0d, 1D and 2D data files.	PR98 Variable Documentation Neater tables of PR98 variables	ASCII files documenting all PR98 variables comments   0D   1D   2D