Alternates to FTP // Re: Late 1 degree GFS and late eta's on CONDUIT

An alternative to NCEP FTP server is the HTTP access via the NCDC NOMADS 
server.  This seems to be a archive rather than real-time, but it may help
everyone patch up datasets.   Looks line in some cases, the archive goes 
back pretty far.   Enjoy.

The main index to the data portals is here:
   http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/nomads/data-avail.html

NCEP items can be found here:  [Download option for HTTP]
   http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access.html

NOMADS also features OPeNDAP access to the model datasets for those that 
want to use the brilliant Unidata IDV program.   ODC, ncBrowse, gradsdods 
and THREDDS (THREDDS Data Viewer / Toolset; I affectionately call it TDV;
http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/projects/THREDDS/tech/index.html#TDV) 
work for the most part.

> Oh yes, we are seeing huge delays.  As an example, we received last
> night's 0Z run 72 hour forecast for the GFS at 2 hours and 54 later
> than I was able to obtain the file via FTP (23:01:58 PST vs 20:08:15
> PST).