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Service Change Notice 12-32
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
215 PM EDT Tue Sep 25 2012
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS partners and NWS employees
From: Peter Stone
Chief, Oceanographic Division
NOS Center for Operational Oceanographic
Products and Services (CO-OPS)
Subject: NOS/CO-OPS to Change SHEF and CREX Bulletins
Effective October 24, 2012.
Effective October 24, 2012, at 1500 Coordinated Universal Time
(UTC), NOS/CO-OPS will implement the following changes:
- Update the source code for Astronomical Tide Standard
Hydrologic Exchange Format (SHEF) Bulletins from HMIFZ to HMIFA
- Change the time zone of the Great Lakes water level and
meteorological Character form for the Representation and EXchange
of Data(CREX) bulletin data
- Change CREX observed data bulletins for the Great Lakes
stations so that data are provided in UTC to adhere with World
Meteorological Organization (WMO) standards. Data had been
issued in Local Standard Time (LST) previous to this change.
Great Lakes observed data SHEF bulletins will remain in LST to
accommodate user needs.
Information about NOS/CO-OPS Products and Services is online at
http://www.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/index.shtml
For questions concerning these changes, please contact:
Kathleen Bailey
NOS/CO-OPS
Silver Spring, MD
Email: Kathleen.Bailey@xxxxxxxx
For general questions on CO-OPS products and services, contact:
Todd Ehret
NOS/CO-OPS/User Services Team
Silver Spring, MD
Email: tide.prediction@xxxxxxxx
National Service Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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