040423: NCEP model data- (fwd)

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• Subject: 040423: NCEP model data- (fwd)
• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Friday, April 23, 2004 2:04 PM -0400

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   Currently, on both the NCEP and TOC FTP servers, over 50% of the gridded NCEP
model data sets are not being accessed.  A review of file access on both FTP 
servers
was conducted during the months of January and February 2004.  From this review 
a
list of the unaccessed data sets has been generated.  It is NCEP's intention to
remove these data sets, but we would like to first solicit feedback from our 
users.
The proposed list of data sets to be removed has been posted on the NCEP web 
site at
the following location:

    http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/products/ftp_removal_list.html

    An E-mail address has been provided on this page to allow for users to 
provide
feedback.  Data sets were only included on this list if they were unused on 
both the
TOC and NCEP servers.  User comments on this list will be accepted through 15 
June
2004.  On 29 June 2004, all files deemed unnecessary will be removed from the 
NCEP
ftp server.  This process will provide the additional server resources to host
higher temporal and spatial resolution data not currently available.