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Technical Implementation Notice 13-05
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
125 PM EST Thu Feb 21 2013
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS Partners, Users and Employees
From: Rebecca Cosgrove
Acting Chief, Production Management Branch
NCEP Central Operations
Subject: Replacement of Navys NOGAPS with NAVGEM:
Effective February 27, 2013
Effective Wednesday, February 27, 2013, the Fleet Numerical
Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) will replace its Navy
Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS) with
the Navy Global Environmental Model (NAVGEM). After this change
NOGAPS output will no longer be available on the NCEP FTP server;
it will be replaced with NAVGEM output. Note: This is a Navy-
driven change; NWS cannot give the typical advanced notice.
NOGAPS data is currently available at:
ftp://ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf_backup/pub/data/model/grid/
grib/nogaps
NAVGEM data will be available at:
ftp://ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/fnmoc/prod/navgem.YYYYM
MDD
Where YYYYMMDD is the Year, Month, Day string.
The filename structure is changing.
From:
nogaps_YYYYMMDDCCfHHH
To:
navgem_YYYYMMDDCCfHHH
Where YYYYMMDDCC is the Year, Month, Day, Cycle string and HHH is
the forecast hour.
Finally, the Model Number and Process ID of the model in the GRIB
encoding is changing from 58 to 18.
For questions regarding these changes, please contact:
Justin Cooke
NCEP Central Operations
College Park, Maryland
Phone: 301-683-3833
Justin.Cooke@xxxxxxxx
NWS National Technical Implementation Notices are online at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notif.htm
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