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On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, John Caron wrote:
im wondering what these new directories are and if we can come up with a name thats more readable. /data/ldm/pub/native/grid/NCEP/NDFD, 362, 14.054000 /data/ldm/pub/native/grid/NCEP/GFS, 8424, 272.605000 /data/ldm/pub/native/grid/NCEP/NEWGBXGLOBAL0p5, 624, 17.314000
this can be delete, it was used to check the binary vs text index reading
/data/ldm/pub/native/grid/NCEP/WW3, 5771, 149.692000
these are the wave watch product, i want to make catalogs for these 6 models
/data/ldm/pub/native/grid/NCEP/SPECTRAL, 364, 9.440000
old Grib1 products that we can now handle, they had multiple projections. tiles. I don't think there's much interest in them. Never had any request for them but I don't know for sure.
/data/ldm/pub/native/grid/NCEP/NAM, 7963, 204.141000 /data/ldm/pub/native/grid/NCEP/SREF, 1449, 39.479000
this is the new short range ensemble forecast models
/data/ldm/pub/native/grid/NCEP/DGEX, 728, 18.411000 /data/ldm/pub/native/grid/NCEP/RUC, 4348, 106.838000 /data/ldm/pub/native/grid/NCEP/SST, 362, 9.312000
old sea surface temperature Grib1 products that we can now handle, they had multiple projections. tiles. some interest, they need catalogs
/data/ldm/pub/native/grid/NCEP/RUC2, 17405, 471.477000 /data/ldm/pub/native/grid/NCEP/OCEAN, 545, 14.649000
old ocean Grib1 products that we can now handle, they had multiple projections. tiles. don't know interest level of these
can be delete, was used to test one dir having some binary and some text indexes together./data/ldm/pub/native/grid/NCEP/NEWGBXNDFD, 203, 5.306000
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