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FROM: John H. Ward Chief, Production Management Branch Subject: Changes to the NWS Production Suite 1. The replacement of the NAM-Eta with the NAM-WRF is tentativelyscheduled for Tuesday, 13 June. Anyone interested in participating in the evaluation can subscribe to the evaluation mailing list
https://lstsrv.ncep.noaa.gov/mailman/listinfo/ncep.list.modelevalinfoand send their evaluation back via the mailing list. Once registered, check the prior postings link to view the details on the NAM-WRF evaluation.
2. An upgrade to the Global Ensemble System is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, 30 May. Anyone interested in participating in the evaluation should follow the instructions listed above.
3. The moratorium on changes at the NWS Telecommunications Operations Center (TOC) is expected to end in early April. As soon as the moratorium is lifted, NCEP will begin the transition from GRIB1 to GRIB2, by placing duplicate GRIB2 files on the TOC FTP server. Both sets of data will remain on the TOC FTP server for a minimum of 180 days.
4. A directory of NCEP model data available on both the TOC and NCEP FTP servers is located at:
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/products/The WEB site also contains a full parameter list for each data file. Currently information is only available for NAM, GFS, Global Ensemble, RSAS, RUC, ECMWF, and UKMET. Information on other data availability will be added shortly.
5. Upcoming changes to NCEP's production suite can be viewed at the following website:
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/changes/This WEB site contain details on any product or timing changes that are associated with upcoming implementations.
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