20070423: NCEP update

[Linda Miller]

FROM:		      John H. Ward 
		      Chief, Production Management Branch 

SUBJECT:	      Changes to the NWS Production Suite





1.  An upgrade to the Global Forecast System is tentatively planned for Tuesday, 1 May 2007.  Information about the proposed change and access to retrospective test runs are available at: 

http://wwwt.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/gmb/para/paralog.gsihybrid.html 

The real-time parallel runs can be viewed on the experimental Forecast and Analysis WEB site: 

http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwpara/analysis/ 


2.  For information regarding product equivalents for GRIB1 and GRIB2 on the TOC servers (tgdata.nws.noaa.gov and tgftp.nws.noaa.gov), please see the following link: 

http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/docs/GRIB1_to_GRIB2.shtml 

For information regarding a utility which converts GRIB2 to GRIB1 and vice-versa, please see the following link: 

http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/codes/GRIB2/ 

3.  Upcoming changes to NCEP's production suite and details on any product or timing changes that are associated with upcoming implementations can be viewed at the following website: 

http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/changes/ 

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