Changes to the NWS Production Suite

• To: nws-changes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: Changes to the NWS Production Suite
• From: John Ward <wd22jw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Friday, December 10, 2004 8:59 AM -0500

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1.      The transition of NCEP operations to the Phase II Central Computing 
System (CCS)
is proceeding on schedule.  Full parallel operations began on the primary 
system on
15 November and on the backup system on 6 December.  The Phase II system is
scheduled to become operational on Tuesday, 25 January 2005.

    Information on the transition, such as file name changes and system
differences, are currently being compiled.  This information is available at the
following web location:

     http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/docs/ccs_transition

     CCS users should check this page regularly for updates.

2.      The file naming convention change has been expanded to include the Eta 
model run,
which will be called the North American Mesoscale (NAM) run.  All forecast runs 
will
be referenced by the area of responsibility for the run rather than a forecast 
model
name: Global Forecast System (GFS) rather than AVN or Spectral model; and North
American Mesoscale (NAM) rather than Eta.  All file structures containing old 
names
have duplicate links containing the new model run designators on the NCEP and 
NWS
FTP servers.  On 25 January 2005, all file structures containing old names will 
be
eliminated.  Additional details about this transition can be found at the 
following
web site:

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