20041025: comms data IDs

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• Subject: 20041025: comms data IDs
• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:53:09 -0600

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TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION NOTICE 04-57
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HEADQUARTERS WASHINGTON DC
1040 AM EDT MON OCT 25 2004

TO:       FAMILY OF SERVICES /FOS/ SUBSCRIBERS...NOAA WEATHER
         WIRE SERVICE /NWWS/ SUBSCRIBERS...EMERGENCY MANAGERS
         WEATHER INFORMATION NETWORK /EMWIN/ SUBSCRIBERS...
         OTHER NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE /NWS/ CUSTOMERS AND
         PARTNERS...NWS EMPLOYEES

FROM:     MIKE CAMPBELL
         CHIEF...OBSERVING SERVICES DIVISION
         NWS OFFICE OF CLIMATE... WATER AND WEATHER SERVICES /OCWWS/

SUBJECT:  COMMUNICATION IDENTIFIERS ADDED TO THE EXISTING
 INVENTORY OF SUPPLEMENTARY CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA /SCD/
 PRODUCT IDENTIFIERS...EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 08 2004

ON NOVEMBER 08 2004... AT 1200 COORDINATED UNIVERSAL TIME...
NWS OCWWS WILL INCREASE NWS TELECOMMUNICATIONS GATEWAY INVENTORY OF
COMMUNICATION IDENTIFIERS FOR SCD PRODUCTS. THIS ACTION RESTORES A
NUMBER OF COMMUNICATION IDENTIFIERS DELETED AFTER NWS CLOSED ITS
SPIN-DOWN OFFICES... OFFICES CLOSE TO CLIMATE REPORTING SITES.

THESE ADDED COMMUNICATION IDENTIFIERS WILL ENABLE NWS FIELD
OFFICES TO REPORT 6-HOUR SNOW DEPTH DATA AS MEASURED BY CONTRACT
OBSERVERS AT LOCAL CLIMATE DATA SITES. YEAR ROUND THE SCD
PRODUCTS PROVIDE ROUTINELY SCHEDULED OBSERVATIONS USEFUL FOR
CLIMATOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS AND HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL OPERATIONS.
NWS REQUIRES THE SCD BE ISSUED BY WEATHER FORECAST OFFICES...
WEATHER SERVICE OFFICES AND DATA COLLECTION OFFICES. AS A
SCHEDULED OBSERVATION... THE REPORT IS TRANSMITTED NO EARLIER
THAN 10 MINUTES BEFORE THE SCHEDULED HOUR... NOR LATER THAN 10
MINUTES AFTER THE SCHEDULED HOUR.

EXAMPLES OF SCD COMMUNICATION IDENTIFIERS TO BE ADDED ON NOVEMBER
08 2004:

NWS EASTERN REGION:   SCDROC CXUS61 KBUF
NWS SOUTHERN REGION:  SCDTRI CXUS64 KMRX
NWS CENTRAL REGION:   SCDMCI CXUS63 KEAX
NWS WESTERN REGION:   SCDYKM CXUS66 KPDT
NWS ALASKA REGION:    SCDADQ CXAK68 PADQ
NWS PACIFIC REGION:   None to be added

THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS CHANGE IS SOONER THAN THE 75 DAY
NOTIFICATION PERIOD SPECIFIED BY NWS INSTRUCTION 10-1805. THE NWS
OCWWS REGARDS THE VALUE OF THE 6-HOURLY SNOW DEPTH OBSERVATIONS
TO BE OF CRITICAL IMPORTANCE TO THE EXTERNAL USERS OF NWS DATA
AND ABIDING TO THE FULL PERIOD WOULD RISK SNOW DEPTH REPORTS
BEING MISSED IN THE FIRST HALF OF WINTER.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS CONCERNING THESE PRODUCT IDENTIFIERS...
PLEASE CONTACT:

 MIKE CAMPBELL
 NWS/OCWWS...DIVISION CHIEF...OBSERVERING SERVICES
 SILVER SPRING MARYLAND
 PHONE: 301 713 1792 X110
 EMAIL: MIKE.CAMPBELL@xxxxxxxx

 OR

 THOMAS TRUNK
 NWS/OCCWWS
 SILVER SPRING MARYLAND
 PHONE: 301 713 0722 X194
 EMAIL: THOMAS.TRUNK@xxxxxxxx


THIS AND OTHER NWS TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION NOTICES ARE AVAILABLE
ONLINE AT /USE LOWER CASE LETTERS/:

 HTTP://WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/OM/NOTIF.HTM

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