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Technical Implementation Notice 11-57
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
920 AM EST Fri Dec 23, 2011
To: Subscribers:
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Other NWS partners and employees
From: Timothy McClung
Chief, Science Plans Branch
Office of Science and Technology (OST)
Subject: Upgrade of the NCEP Air Quality Forecast
System Effective January 31 2012
Effective Tuesday January 31, at 1200 coordinated Universal Time
(UTC), the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)
will add an operational product generated by the HYSPLIT model
to its operational product suite.
This upgrade will expand operational prediction products to
include predictions of dust from dust storms over the CONUS from
the 06 UTC and 12 UTC prediction cycles.
Once operational the output from this transition will be
available from the NWS National Digital Guidance Database (NDGD)
server at:
ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/SL.us008001/ST.opnl/DF.gr2/DC.ndgd/GT.a
q/AR.conus/
This output is currently being generated as an experimental
product from 06UTC and 12UTC prediction cycles at NCEP. These
data can be obtained from the experimental NDGD server at:
ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/SL.us008001/ST.expr/DF.gr2/DC.ndgd/GT.a
q/AR.conus/
The file names for dust prediction products are:
- ds.dustsdc01.bin: for concentration of dust in the air in
the lowest model layer near the surface.
- ds.dustvdc01.bin: for average concentration of dust in
the column of air between the surface and 5km altitude.
More information on NCEP model changes can be found at:
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/changes/
For questions concerning EMC issues, please contact:
Geoff Manikin
NCEP - Environmental Modeling Center
Silver Spring Maryland
301 763 8000 X7263
geoffrey.manikin@xxxxxxxx
For other questions concerning these changes, contact:
Rebecca Cosgrove
NCEP - Production Management Branch
Camp Springs Maryland
301 763 8000 X7148
rebecca.cosgrove@xxxxxxxx
NWS National Technical Implementation Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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