20000413: ETA files

>From: "Paul L. Sirvatka" <address@hidden>
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 200004131608.KAA24097

>Every morning, our pipe is not large enough to stay on top of our product
>queue. So we lose a lot of model data. Is there anyplace we can ftp over
>the complete eta model(through 60 hours) instead?
>
>Paul
>
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Paul,

Illinois provides a data recovery FTP for the IDD:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/data/recovery.html

You can also FTP the ETA grids from NCEP:
ftp://ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data1/eta/erl.YYMMDD/

The 80km grids are named: eta.TxxZ.AWIP211xx.tm00
    40km grids are named: eta.TxxZ.AWIP3Dxx.tm00
    20km grids are named: eta.TxxZ.AWIP20xx.tm00

Steve Chiswell