Notes on IMP-8 MERGE files. -- Each folder contains one year of IMP-8 MERGE files, one day per file. -- All data files are gzipped. -- Text file 000_merge_header_row.txt is one-line header with 425 short names for each column of a record. Users can append this header to the top of a record to help identify record elements. Text file 000_merge_header_col.txt contains the 425 element names in 425 rows.