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Steve, In December, Unidata switched the IDD feed from FOS to NOAAport. On NOAAport, there are several NGM, ETA, MRF and AVN projections. In terms of retreiving NGM grids for such a long period, I suspect that the typical places such as Illinois and Washington would be swamped. I know NCAR SCD was keeping 30 days online and archiving the rest. Perhaps this is something that this data archive project would be appropriate. You might want to ask Ben Domenico or Dave Fulker as to how to proceed on that end since I don't know exactly where they are in this regard. Chiz here are the annotated pqact.conf entries I provided. The projection number is referenced with the 3rd character in the WMO name. I updated dcgrib last year to use @@@ as a template to store data by the grid id number so that a single pqact.conf line could handle many projections # # NGM model output # Grid #211 CONUS 80km: ^[YZ].Q.*/mNGM # Grid #207 Alaska 95km: ^[YZ].N.*/mNGM # Grid #202 CONUS 190km: ^[YZ].I.*/mNGM # Grid #213 CONUS 47.5km: ^[YZ].H.*/mNGM # Select any/all grids desired from [QNIH] HRS ^[YZ].[Q].*/mNGM PIPE dcgrib -v -d logs/dcgrib.log -g /home/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/tables PACK data/gempak/hds/YYMMDDHH_ngm@@@.gem # # NOAAport ETA grids # Grid #211 80km CONUS: ^[YZ].Q.*/mETA # Grid #212 40km CONUS: ^[YZ].R.*/mETA # Grid #215 20km CONUS: ^[YZ].U.*/mETA # Grid #214 47.5km Alaska: ^[YZ].T.*/mETA # Select any/all grids desired from [QRUT] HRS ^[YZ].[Q].*/mETA PIPE dcgrib -v -d logs/dcgrib.log -g /home/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/tables PACK data/gempak/hds/YYMMDDHH_eta@@@.gem # # NOAAport MRF grids # Grid #201 N. Hemisphere 381km: ^Y.A... KWBH # Grid #202 CONUS 190km: ^Y.I... KWBH # Grid #203 Alaska 190km: ^Y.J... KWBH # Grid #204 Hawaii 160km: ^Y.K... KWBH # Grid #205 Puerto Rico 190km: ^Y.L... KWBH # Select any/all grids desired from [AIJKL] HRS ^Y.[A]... KWBH PIPE dcgrib -v -d logs/dcgrib.log -g /home/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/tables PACK data/gempak/hds/YYMMDDHH_mrf@@@.gem # # # RUC/MAPS model output # Grid #211 CONUS 80km: ^[YZ].Q.*/mRUC # Currently, only grid #211 HRS ^[YZ].[Q].*/mRUC PIPE dcgrib -v -d logs/dcgrib.log -g /home/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/tables PACK data/gempak/hds/YYMMDDHH_ruc@@@.gem # # AVN model output # Grid #201 N. Hemisphere 381km: ^Y.A... KWBC.*(/mAVN|/mSSIAVN) # Grid #202 CONUS 190km: ^Y.I... KWBC.*(/mAVN|/mSSIAVN) # Grid #203 Alaska 190km: ^Y.J... KWBC.*(/mAVN|/mSSIAVN) # Grid #211 CONUS 80km: ^Y.Q... KWBC.*(/mAVN|/mSSIAVN) # Grid #213 CONUS 95km: ^Y.H... KWBC.*(/mAVN|/mSSIAVN) # Select any/all grids desired from [QAIJH] HRS ^[YZ].[Q]... KWB. ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]).*(/mAVN|/mSSIAVN) PIPE dcgrib -v -d logs/dcgrib.log -g /home/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/tables PACK data/gempak/hds/YYMMDDHH_avn@@@.gem On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Steven L. Mullen wrote: > Steve, > > Mike and I are trying to untangle the history of > a problem down here. My question: did the grid > and navigation for NGM gempak files on the hds > change sometime around 12/18/98? We now > get, and have been getting since mid Dec it appears, > the NGM files on a 65 by 43 STR grid centered along > -105 instead of the old/current LCC format of the ETA. > Did the feed change and did we/I miss the announcement, > or is there something screwy about our LDM installation? > > Just trying to track down the problem. > > Steve > > P.S. On a different note, do you know anybody out > in Unidata land who archives the NGM data and > would be willing to let me download the NGM grids > (grib or gempak format) for the period 12/18/98 > until last week? I am too damn embarrassed to admit > to the whole universe that I just found out about the > problem of different navigations this Saturday (I thought > that my script to compute initial analysis differences was running > flawlessly has it had for more than 6 months prior), and we > don't archive the NGM (just the ETA). I am desperate > to get the data in order to fulfill the obligations of an > ONR contact. > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------- > {} Steven L. Mullen > {} {} Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences > {} {} {} University of Arizona > {} {} {} 1118 E. 4th St. > {}{}{} PO Box 210081 > {} Tucson, Arizona 85721-0081 > {} Tel:(520) 621-6842 > {} Fax:(520) 621-6833 > {} Email: address@hidden > ------------------------------------------------------- > > >