20030905: Quarterly backup-NCEP -

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• Subject: 20030905: Quarterly backup-NCEP -
• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 14:40:24 -0600

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TO  AWIPS/NOAAPORT USERS... FAMILY OF SERVICES /FOS/
SUBSCRIBERS EMERGENCY MANAGERS WEATHER INFORMATION
NETWORK /EMWIN/NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE /NWS/
CUSTOMERS... WAFS USERS... GTS USERS... NWS FAX CHART USERS

FROM RTH WASHINGTON DATA MANAGEMENT

SUBJECT:  QUARTERLY SUPER COMPUTER BACKUP TEST PLANNED
         FOR OCTOBER 2 2003

NOTE:  THE FOLLOWING CHANGES HAVE NO IMPACT ON NOAA WEATHER WIRE
SUBSCRIBERS

BARING CRITICAL WEATHER, ON THURSDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2003 NCEP CENTRAL
OPERATIONS (NCO) WILL TEST ITS BACKUP MODEL DATA DISSEMINATION
SYSTEM.  FOR THIS TEST NCO WILL DISSEMINATE BACKUP RUC PRODUCTS FROM
FSL DURING THE 14 UTC MODEL CYCLE.  THESE PRODUCTS, WHICH WILL BE
DISSEMINATED TO AWIPS/NOAAPORT AND BOTH THE NCEP AND NWS FTP
SERVERS, WILL LOOK EXACTLY LIKE THE NCEP RUC PRODUCTS.  DELAYED
DELIVERY TIMES OF THESE PRODUCTS ARE THE ONLY IMPACT END USERS
SHOULD OBSERVE.  AVERAGE PRODUCT AVAILABILITY TIME FOR THE 14 UTC
BACKUP RUC ARE APPROXIMATELY 15:25 UTC.  THIS IS APPROXIMATELY 35
MINUTES LATER THAN THE NCEP VERSION OF THE RUC.

FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE TYPE OF PRODUCTS AVAILABLE FROM THE
NCEP BACKUP PROCESSING AND THEIR APPROXIMATE DELIVERY TIMES CAN BE
FOUND AT THE FOLLOWING WEB SITE /USE LOWER CASE/:

HTTP://WWW.NCO.NCEP.NOAA.GOV/PMB/DOCS/NCEP_BACKUP.SHTML

DURING THIS TEST WE WILL MAKE LOOK-ALIKE NCEP RUC GRIDS AVAILABLE AT
THE NWS FTP SERVER.  ON THE DAY OF THE TEST THESE PRODUCTS CAN BE
FOUND IN THE SAME DIRECTORIES THAT THE RUC MODEL DATA NORMALLY
RESIDE.  THIS SERVER IS LOCATED AT /USE LOWER CASE/:

FTP://TGFTP.NWS.NOAA.GOV/SL.US008001/ST.OPNL/

ADDITIONALLY, BACKUP DATA SETS (FROM AFWA, FNMOC, AND NOAA/FSL) IN
THEIR NATIVE FORMAT CAN BE FOUND AT /USE LOWER CASE/:

FTP://FTPPRD.NCEP.NOAA.GOV/PUB/DATA/NCCF_BACKUP/

THESE DATA ARE AVAILABLE ALL THE TIME ON THIS SERVER.

AS ALWAYS NCEP APPRECIATES YOUR PATIENCE DURING THESE EXERCISES
WHICH ARE NECESSARY TO ASSURE THE CONTINUED FLOW OF MODEL
GUIDANCE IN THE EVENT OF AN OUTAGE AT OUR SUPER COMPUTER FACILITY.


IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE NCEP CENTRAL COMPUTER
SYSTEM BACKUP TEST PLEASE CONTACT:

JOHN WARD                     OR   BRENT GORDON
PHONE:  301-763-8000 X 7185        301-763-8000 X 7193
E-MAIL: JOHN.WARD@xxxxxxxx         BRENT.GORDON@xxxxxxxx