20041023: renaming AVN, ETA

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• Subject: 20041023: renaming AVN, ETA
• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 12:25:00 -0600

NOXX10KWBC 221649
DATA MGT MESSAGE 10-04.05

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

FROM  RTH WASHINGTON DATA MANAGEMENT

SUBJECT  RENAMING OF THE NCEP AVN AND ETA MODEL OUTPUT
        DATA ON THE NCEP AND NWS FTP SERVERS

NCEP IS CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF RENAMING BOTH THE AVN
AND ETA MODEL RUNS TO BETTER REFLECT THE FUNCTIONS OF
THESE RUNS.  THE AVN RUN IS BEING RENAMED TO THE GFS
/GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEM/AND THE ETA MODEL RUN IS BEING
RENAMED TO NAM /NORTH AMERICAN MESOSCALE/.  THIS RENAMING
PROCESS WILL BE COMPLETE ONCE NCEP CENTRAL OPERATIONS /NCO/
BEGINS OPERATIONAL PROCESSING ON PHASE II OF ITS CENTRAL
COMPUTING SYSTEM /CCS/ IN GAITHERSBURG? MD.  THE DATE
FOR THIS EVENT IS CURRENTLY SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY?
JANUARY 18? 2005.

TO ACCOMMODATE THESE NAME CHANGES? NCO WILL BE CHANGING THE
NAMES OF SEVERAL OTHER FILES AND DIRECTORIES ON ITS CCS TO
STREAMLINE HOW DATA ARE STORED ON THE CCS.  ALL OF THESE
CHANGES WILL CREATE NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCES IN THE LOCATIONS
AND NAMES OF FILES ON BOTH THE NCEP AND NWS FTP SERVERS.
NCEP IS CURRENTLY PROVIDING DATA WITH THE NEW NAMES AND
LOCATIONS ON ITS FTP SERVER AND THE NWS FTP SERVER. USERS
OF THESE SERVERS SHOULD TRANSITION THEIR PROCESSING THAT
DOWNLOADS DATA FROM THESE SERVERS TO THE NEW NAMES AND
DIRECTORIES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.  ON TUESDAY...
18 JANUARY 2005 THE DATA SETS WITH THE OLD NAMES AND
DIRECTORY STRUCTURES WILL NO LONGER EXIST.

THESE CHANGES AFFECT THE DATA AT THE FOLLOWING TWO SERVERS
THE OFFICIAL NWS SERVER AT /USE LOWER CASE LETTERS/

    FTP://TGFTP.NWS.NOAA.GOV/

AND THE NCEP FTP SERVER AT /USE LOWER CASE LETTERS/

    FTP://FTPPRD.NCEP.NOAA.GOV/PUB/DATA/NCCF/COM/

PLEASE USE THE INFORMATION AT THE FOLLOWING WEB SITE TO AID
IN YOUR TRANSITION TO THE NEW FILE NAMES AND DIRECTORY LOCATIONS.
THIS WEB SITE IS /USE LOWER CASE LETTERS/:

    HTTP://WWW.NCO.NCEP.NOAA.GOV/PMB/CHANGES/MODEL_RENAME.HTML

USERS SHOULD BEGIN TO MIGRATE THEIR PROCESSING TO POINT TO THE NEWLY
RENAMED DATA SETS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.  THIS WILL ALLOW FOR A
TRANSPARENT CHANGE TO OCCUR WHEN THE DATA SETS WITH THE OLD NAMES
ARE REMOVED ON JANUARY 18 2005.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS CONCERNING THIS MODEL NAME CHANGE...PLEASE
CONTACT:

JOHN WARD
NCEP...PRODUCT MANAGEMENT BRANCH CHIEF
CAMP SPRINGS MARYLAND
PHONE: 301 763 8000 X7185
EMAIL: JOHN.WARD@xxxxxxxx

OR

BRENT GORDON
NCEP...PRODUCTION SUPPORT TEAM LEAD
CAMP SPRINGS MARYLAND
PHONE: 301 763 8000 X7193
EMAIL: BRENT.GORDON@xxxxxxxx

THIS INFORMATION IS ALSO POSTED ON THE NWS DATA MANAGEMENT CHANGE

NOTICES WEB PAGE. THE URL IS LISTED BELOW.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/datamgmt/index.html

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