20040512: WMO headers-

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• Subject: 20040512: WMO headers-
• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 07:06:51 -0600

NOXX10KWBC 121109
DATA MGT MESSAGE 05-04.01

TO  AWIPS/NOAAPORT USERS.. FAMILY OF SERVICES/FOS/SUBSCRIBERS...
   EMERGENCY MANAGERS WEATHER INFORMATION NETWORK /EMWIN/
   NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE /NWS/ CUSTOMERS... WAFS USERS...
   GTS USERS...

FROM  RTH WASHINGTON DATA MANAGEMENT

SUBJECT  WMO HEADER AND GRID CHANGE FOR NCEP RTGSST
        PRODUCT...EFFECTIVE 1200 UTC JUNE 29 2004

ON THE ABOVE EFFECTIVE DATE THE NATIONAL CENTERS FOR
ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION /NCEP/ WILL MODIFY THE REAL TIME GLOBAL
SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE /RTGSST/ PRODUCT TO USE THE CORRECT WMO
HEADER FOR THIS PRODUCT AND TO CHANGE TO A PREDEFINED GRID
NUMBER.  SPECIFICALLY

THE WMO HEADER WILL BE MODIFIED FROM OTGA88 KWBJ TO OTLA88 KWBI.

THE GRID NUMBER IN THE GRIB PDS WILL CHANGE
     FROM 255 /UNDEFINED SEE GDS/
     TO   235 /0.5 DEGREE LAT LON GRID/.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS CONCERNING THESE CHANGES...
PLEASE CONTACT

 JOHN WARD
 PHONE 301 763 8000 X 7185
 E-MAIL JOHN.WARD/AT SYMBOL/NOAA.GOV

OR

 LAWRENCE BURROUGHS
 PHONE   301 763 8000 X 7209
 E-MAIL  LAWRENCE.BURROUGHS/AT SYMBOL/NOAA.GOV

THIS INFORMATION IS ALSO POSTED ON THE NWS DATA MANAGEMENT
NOTICES WEB PAGE. THE URL IS LISTED BELOW.

HTTP/COLON///WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/DATAMGMT/NOTICES.SHTML

DATA MANAGEMENT
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