[nws-changes] 20101018: MOS and LAMP products-Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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• Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:39:11 -0600

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Technical Implementation Notice 10-48, Amended
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
715 AM EDT Mon Oct 18 2010

To:       Subscribers:
          -Family of Services
          -NOAA Weather Wire Service
          -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
          -NOAAPORT
          Other NWS Partners, Users and Employees

From:     Timothy McClung
          Chief, Science Plans Brach
          Office of Science and Technology

Subject:  Amended: Changes to NCEP BUFR Products:
          Effective December 14, 2010

Amended to remove references to Model Output Statistics (MOS)
and Localized Aviation MOS Product (LAMP) products.  This change
will not affect the format of MOS and LAMP BUFR products.

Effective Tuesday, December 14, 2010, beginning with the 1200
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) run, the National Centers for
Environmental Prediction (NCEP) will upgrade the software used
to create model output products in BUFR format.  This upgrade
will result in the following two changes to the format of all
NCEP BUFR products:

1. The identification section of each BUFR message will
   indicate the use of version 13 of the WMO Master Table.
   NCEP BUFR products currently use version 12.

2. An additional empty (zero subset) BUFR message will now be
   included within all files that contain BUFR table
   messages.  These empty messages are recognizable as having
   a data category value of 11 within the identification
   section of the message.

Sample NCEP BUFR products are available at:

ftp://ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data1/nccf/com/bufrlib

The "current" directory contains the BUFR products created with
the current operational BUFR software. The "new" directory
contains the same products generated with the new BUFR software.

For questions regarding these changes, please contact:

Jeff Ator
NCEP/Central Operations
Camp Springs, Maryland
301-763-8000 x 7104
jeff.ator@xxxxxxxx
or
Rebecca Cosgrove
NCEP/Central Operations
Camp Springs, Maryland
301-763-8000 x 7198
rebecca.cosgrove@xxxxxxxx

NWS National Technical Implementation Notices are online at:

  http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notif.htm

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