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NCEP has announced in TIN 15-21 that it will shut down FTP access on August 18, 2015. (I'm not sure if I can directly post to the list or not, so I am CC'ing Joshua Young as well so he might post this). See http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notification/tin15-21ftpprd_end.htm Oddly, I am subscribed to NCEP's FTP notification list and haven't even seen it communicated there yet. I have asked NCEP to communicate this change to that list. Since this is a change that may impact a lot of people, I thought I would relay it to this list. The full text of the TIN is below: NOUS41 KWBC 231844 PNSWSH Technical Implementation Notice 15-21 National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC 245 PM EDT Thu Apr 23 2015 To: Subscribers: -Family of Services -NOAA Weather Wire Service -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network -NOAAPORT Other NWS partners, Users and Employees From: Rebecca Cosgrove Chief, NCEP Production Management Branch Subject: Discontinuation of the NCEP FTP Server Effective August 18, 2015 Effective on August 18, 2015, at 1200 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) will discontinue the NCEP FTP (FTPPRD) server. At that time, all data that was available on FTPPRD will only be available on the NOAA Operational Model Archive and Distribution System (NOMADS) server. Data on this server will not be accessible via FTP downloads. Rather, FTP customers will be required to transition to http for data downloads. The benefit of this change is that NOMADS http data will be transitioned to a Content Delivery Network (CDN) with increased server redundancy. This change will provide greater reliability and improved up time for web content and data availability. In addition, transitioning this content to a CDN will remove reliance on the NCEP network for http downloads, which is expected to provide improved download performance for http users. On August 18, 2015, NCEP will discontinue the following data dissemination services: ftp://ftpprd.ncep.noaa.gov http://ftpprd.ncep.noaa.gov ftp://www.ftp.ncep.noaa.gov http://www.ftp.ncep.noaa.gov ftp://ftp.ncep.noaa.gov http://ftp.ncep.noaa.gov All data at the above sites will be available at the following sites: http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov http://www.nomads.ncep.noaa.gov The directory structure for http data on NOMADS is similar to the data structure at the discontinued FTPPRD sites: http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/model/prod http://www.nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/model/prod Note the /pub/ field and the variable /model/ field in the directory structure on NOMADS. Users are encouraged to establish parallel feeds of the data from NOMADS starting May 15, 2015. Available tools for http data downloads include wget or cURL. Information about how to use wget can be found at: http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/Simple-Usage.html For information about how to use cURL for fast downloading of grib2 files, please reference: http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/txt_descriptions/fast_downloading_grib.shtml For questions regarding data retrievals from NOMADS, contact: Kelly Kempisty NCEP/NCO Dataflow Team College Park, MD 301-683-0567 ncep.list.pmb-dataflow@xxxxxxxx For questions regarding the transition to the CDN, contact: Cameron Shelton NCEP/Shared Infrastructure Services Branch College Park, MD 301-683-3878 cameron.shelton@xxxxxxxx NWS National Technical Implementation Notices are online at: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notif.htm $$
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