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Hi Tiziana, re: > Because of the upcoming change to the GFS output and naming convention > (see email below) we were wondering how the GFS data distributed to the > LDM will be affected. Your and the wrf-news emails are timely... today we will be sending out an announcement to the address@hidden and address@hidden email lists detailing the changes to LDM/IDD Product IDs that will be caused by the GFS upgrade. Since you asked before the announcement would be sent, here is the email that will be sent to the Unidata lists: Unidata CONDUIT Users: On January 14 an upgrade to the NCEP GFS/GDAS will cause changes to LDM/IDD Product IDs for CONDUIT GFS global products, and these changes may necessitate modification of LDM pattern-action file actions. The current GFS global products have Product IDs that use the following naming scheme: Global Grid Current name Forecast Hours -----------------------+-----------------------------+------------------- 0.5 degree resolution gfs.tCCz.pgrb2f(xx|xxx) FH00-192/3 1.0 degree resolution gfs.tCCz.pgrbf(xx|xxx).grib2 FH00-192/3 2.5 degree resolution gfs.tCCz.pgrbfxxx.grib2 FH204-384/12 Where: CC - model cycle runtime (i.e., 00, 06, 12, 18) xx,xxx - forecast hour of product from 00 - 384 YYYYMMDD - Year, Month and Day Here are some examples of current LDM/IDD Product IDs for GFS global products in the CONDUIT datastream: 0.5 degree: data/nccf/com/gfs/prod/gfs.2014122318/gfs.t18z.pgrb2f03 !grib2/ncep/GFS/#000/201412231800F003/TMPK/1000 hPa PRES! 000174 data/nccf/com/gfs/prod/gfs.2014122712/gfs.t12z.pgrb2f192 !grib2/ncep/GFS/#000/201412271200F192/TMPK/1000 hPa PRES! 000174 1.0 degree: data/nccf/com/gfs/prod/gfs.2014122318/gfs.t18z.pgrbf03.grib2 !grib2/ncep/GFS/#000/201412231800F003/TMPK/925 hPa PRES! 000153 data/nccf/com/gfs/prod/gfs.2014122712/gfs.t12z.pgrbf192.grib2 !grib2/ncep/GFS/#000/201412271200F192/TMPK/925 hPa PRES! 000153 2.5 degree: data/nccf/com/gfs/prod/gfs.2015010512/gfs.t12z.pgrbf204.grib2 !grib2/ncep/GFS/#000/201501051200F204/TMPK/2 m HGHT! 000195 data/nccf/com/gfs/prod/gfs.2015010512/gfs.t12z.pgrbf384.grib2 !grib2/ncep/GFS/#000/201501051200F384/TMPK/2 m HGHT! 000195 The Product IDs will be regularized to use the following scheme: Global Grid Current name Forecast Hour -----------------------+--------------------------+------------------- 0.5 degree resolution gfs.tCCz.pgrb2.0p50.fFFF FH000-384/3 1.0 degree resolution gfs.tCCz.pgrb2.1p00.fFFF FH000-384/3 2.5 degree resolution gfs.tCCz.pgrb2.2p50.fFFF FH000-384 Where: CC - model cycle runtime (i.e., 00, 06, 12, 18) FFF - forecast hour of product from 000 - 384 YYYYMMDD - Year, Month and Day NB: The change in the GFS global field Product IDs will likely require CONDUIT users to modify the extended regular expressions that they are using in LDM configuration file (~ldm/etc/ldmd.conf) REQUESTs and in pattern-action file actions. Detailed information on current NCEP GFS product sets and those that are scheduled to become available on January 14 can be found at: Current: http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/products/gfs/ January GFS Upgrade: http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/products/gfs/index.shtml.upgrade Please send any questions/comments about the impending change to: Unidata CONDUIT Support <address@hidden> re: > Thank you very much for any info you could provide. No worries. Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: GOU-809390 Department: Support CONDUIT Priority: Normal Status: Closed