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FROM: John H. Ward
Chief, Production Management Branch
SUBJECT: Changes to the NWS Production Suite
1. The annual December moratorium on changes to the Production Suite
will begin at close of business on Tuesday, 18 December and will end on
Tuesday, 8 January. Any request for changes to the Production Suite
must be received by Wednesday, 28 November in order to be considered for
implementation prior to the moratorium.
2. All NCEP model derived GRIB1 data currently residing on the NCEP and TOC FTP servers will be removed on 28 January 2008. Equivalent GRIB2 data sets are available on both servers. NOAAPORT data will not be impacted by this change.
NCEP provides software to convert GRIB2 formatted data back into GRIB1. Please use the link below to obtain the software utility to convert formats:
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/codes/GRIB2/Information regarding product equivalents for GRIB1 and GRIB2 on the NWS FTP TOC servers (tgdata.nws.noaa.gov and tgftp.nws.noaa.gov) and NCEP ftp server (ftp.ncep.noaa.gov) can be found via the link below:
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/docs/GRIB1_to_GRIB2.shtml Please direct all questions concerning the software codes to the following NCO PMB Dataflow Helpdesk: NCEP.PMB.Dataflow@xxxxxxxx3. Upcoming major changes to NCEP's production suite and details on any product or timing changes associated with upcoming implementations can be viewed at the following website:
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/changes/Test data for each of these proposed changes should be available six weeks prior to implementation. Anyone wishing to receive formal notice of the final pre-implementation testing and the opportunity to provide feedback on the proposed changes can subscribe to the Model Evaluation mailing list via:
https://lstsrv.ncep.noaa.gov/mailman/listinfo/ncep.list.modelevalinfo <snip>
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