20060607: NCEP update

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FROM: John H. Ward Chief, Production Management Branch
SUBJECT:                Changes to the NWS Production Suite


1. The transition to the next Central Computer System is expected to begin in August 2006. The moratorium on changes to the NCEP Production Suite is expected to begin 16 August and conclude when the new system becomes operational in January 2007. Anyone wishing to schedule a change prior to the moratorium should submit their requests as soon as possible. With three large implementations pending prior to the moratorium - Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (RTMA), RUC Bundle, and Hybrid Pressure-Sigma GFS - it may not be possible to satisfy all requests by 16 August. On 15 July the installation of the replacement system (Mist) for Blue will begin. More details on the transition schedule will be provided as they become available. 2. On Monday, 5 June the NWS Telecommunications Operations Center (TOC) announced the availability of the ftp and http access to the replacement gateway system (tgdata.nws.noaa.gov). The TOC is currently in the process of transitioning customers to the tgdata server. When that transition is complete, they will declare the system fully operational. Both GRIB1 to GRIB2 data are currently available on this new server. To conserve bandwidth, GRIB2 data is being transferred to tgdata and then converted to GRIB1. For that reason, GRIB2 data will be available one to two minutes earlier on average. Both sets of data will remain on the TOC FTP server for a minimum of 180 days after the system is declared operational. More information will be provided on this transition as it becomes available. 3. Upcoming changes to NCEP's production suite can be viewed at the following website: http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/changes/ This WEB site contains details on any product or timing changes that are associated with upcoming implementations. <snip>

Linda Miller - lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Community Services, Unidata
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
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