[nws-changes] 20101119: removal of coop obs IDs-Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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• Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:32:24 -0700

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Technical Implementation Notice 10-57
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
705 AM EST Fri Nov 19 2010

To:       Subscribers
          -Family of Services
          -NOAA Weather Wire Service
          -NOAAPORT
          -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
          Other NWS Partners, Users and Employees

From:     Jay Lawrimore
          Chief, Climate Analysis Branch
          National Climatic Data Center

SUBJECT:  Removal of Cooperative Observer Program Identifiers
          From the Hourly02 and Daily01 Products Effective
          March 22, 2011

Effective Tuesday, March 22, 2011, at approximately 1500
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), The National Climatic Data
Center will remove the Cooperative Observer Program (Coop)
identifiers in the hourly02 (CRNH02) and daily01 (CRND01)
products produced for stations in the U.S. Climate Reference
Network (USCRN) and U.S. Historical Climatology Network-
Modernization (USHCN-M). This change will affect the format of
both products by shifting the start and end positions of all
following data columns.

For both products the second data column is the Coop identifier
and is 6 characters wide, starting at character 7 and ending at
character 12. The removal of this column will shift all
following columns to the left by 7 characters, including a
column separator character.  The content and width of those
following columns will not be changed.

The Weather Bureau Army Navy (WBAN) identifiers will still be
present in both products and can be used as station identifiers.
The use of the Coop identifier is being discontinued in these
networks; the Coop field may read 999999 before the format
change is in effect.

If you have questions or feedback, please contact:

  Scott Embler
  National Climatic Data Center
  151 Patton Ave
  Asheville, NC  28803
  828-350-2027
  Scott.Embler@xxxxxxxx

NWS Technical Implementation Notices are online at:

  http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm

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