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Re: LDM possibility for Basque Universities

Hi Eugene,

Of course I remember you!

It appears that this request is coming from a university (University of
the Basque Country) so I see no reason why they could not participate in
our IDD.

They would need to install the LDM, I will find an appropriate feed site
(most likey our machine at NSF) and they can begin ingesting the GFS.

I suspect that via the LDM they could handle the entire GFS model, and we
can help with regular expressions, etc to limit there ingest of the HDS
feed to only the GFS (half degree-global I suspect, but whatever they
want)

Cheers and bueno suerte,

Jeff
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On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Eugene Cordero wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
>
> You may only vaguely remember me as I've only been to one Users Comm
> meetings over the last year (I've been on sabbatical for the last few
> months) but plan to be at the next meeting in 2008.
>
> I'm presently in Spain and had some conversations with a couple of
> faculty at the University of the Basque Country.  They are running
> MM5 real time and are having trouble getting the GFS fields in a
> timely manner.  I'm thinking that the LDM may offer them a solution
> for their research needs, and I know that Unidata is interested in
> reaching out to scientists in other parts of the world.
>
> I've attached below some information about their needs coming from
> Prof. Jon Saenz, who was my primary contact while I was visiting the
> Basque Country.  He is a computer guy as well and is fluent in English.
>
> My questions is, do you think Unidata can help them with their
> requirements? and if so, how should we proceed.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Eugene
>
> Eugene Cordero
> Department of Meteorology
> San Jose State University
> 408 924-5188
> address@hidden
> www.met.sjsu.edu/~cordero/
>
>
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> Dear Eugene.
>
> According to our previous conversation, I am trying to describe as
> properly as I can the interest that the Spanish Network of MM5 users
> have in accessing the GFS data in a timely manner.
>
> 1) We are not easily granted access to real-time products by ECMWF, due
> to the restrictions imposed on us by national and european policies on
> meteorological data access.
>
> 2) As a result of that, most members of the Spanish Network of MM5
> users have been using GFS data for real time input to their regional
> MM5 runs and we are even performing a "ensemble" forecasting
> experiment, in which we (several groups) run independently the model
> at our sites and we disseminate the information for public use in a
> web page:
> http://redibericamm5.uib.es/ensemble/
>
> As you can see, there are several groups which are not currently
> producing forecasts, because of difficult data access.
>
> During the last times there have been several changes to data access
> rules in the GFS servers:
>
> a) Changes of server
> b) Removal of the ftp2u capability on the server side
> c) slow (very slow) downloading rates of the GFS grib files at pressure
> levels.
>
> We would really appreciate if we could arrive to some kind of
> agreement between one of our universities, or both, so that we could
> get a "partial" GRIB file with the fields we need (basically,
> geopotential height, T, U, V, relative humidity or specific humidity
> at isobaric surfaces and other surface data like MSLP, skintemp,
> seaice, water equivalent snow depth, U10, V10, T2m, RH2m, temperature
> of the first soil layer) and the area (roughly [60W,60E]x[10N,80N])
> and vertical levels (standard levels up to 50 mb), so that one of our
> centers could disseminate the grid to other members of the Spanish MM5
> network.
>
> This would reduce the bandwidth used by our members in your servers and
> we would acknowledge the service in all of our web pages.
>
>
> Looking forward to receiving your answer.
>
> Best regards.
>
>
>
> Dr. Jon Saenz
> University of the Basque Country
>
>