      FUNCTION IUPB(MBAY,NBYT,NBIT)

C$$$  SUBPROGRAM DOCUMENTATION BLOCK
C
C SUBPROGRAM:    IUPB
C   PRGMMR: WOOLLEN          ORG: NP20       DATE: 1994-01-06
C
C ABSTRACT: THIS FUNCTION UNPACKS AND RETURNS A BINARY INTEGER WORD
C   CONTAINED WITHIN NBIT BITS OF A BUFR MESSAGE PACKED INTO THE
C   INTEGER ARRAY MBAY, STARTING WITH THE FIRST BIT OF BYTE NBYT.
C
C PROGRAM HISTORY LOG:
C 1994-01-06  J. WOOLLEN -- ORIGINAL AUTHOR
C 2003-11-04  J. ATOR    -- ADDED DOCUMENTATION
C 2003-11-04  S. BENDER  -- ADDED REMARKS/BUFRLIB ROUTINE
C                           INTERDEPENDENCIES
C 2003-11-04  D. KEYSER  -- UNIFIED/PORTABLE FOR WRF; ADDED HISTORY
C                           DOCUMENTATION
C
C USAGE:    IUPB (MBAY, NBYT, NBIT)
C   INPUT ARGUMENT LIST:
C     MBAY     - INTEGER: *-WORD PACKED BINARY ARRAY CONTAINING BUFR
C                MESSAGE
C     NBYT     - INTEGER: BYTE WITHIN MBAY AT WHOSE FIRST BIT TO BEGIN
C                UNPACKING
C     NBIT     - INTEGER: NUMBER OF BITS WITHIN MBAY TO BE UNPACKED
C
C   OUTPUT ARGUMENT LIST:
C     IUPB     - INTEGER: UNPACKED INTEGER WORD
C
C REMARKS:
C    THIS ROUTINE CALLS:        UPB
C    THIS ROUTINE IS CALLED BY: CKTABA   CPYUPD   GETLENS  IUPBS01
C                               IUPBS3   MSGUPD   MSGWRT   RDMEMS
C                               STNDRD   STRCPT   SUBUPD   UPDS3
C                               WRITLC
C                               Normally not called by any application
C                               programs.
C
C ATTRIBUTES:
C   LANGUAGE: FORTRAN 77
C   MACHINE:  PORTABLE TO ALL PLATFORMS
C
C$$$

      DIMENSION MBAY(*)

C----------------------------------------------------------------------
C----------------------------------------------------------------------

      MBIT = (NBYT-1)*8
      CALL UPB(IRET,NBIT,MBAY,MBIT)
      IUPB = IRET
      RETURN
      END
