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20010222: Information on GRIB process/model identifiers

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  • Subject: 20010222: Information on GRIB process/model identifiers
  • Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 18:08:14 -0700
Brian,

These are QPE and NWW3 related grids. The NWS (center 8) process 0 is the RCM 
grid (HAXA00 KWBC).
Some of the River Forecast Center QPF (Center=9) gribs now use the subcenter 
(PDS 26) to identify the NWS
office.  I have most of them defined in the $GEMTBL/grid/gribkey.tbl
file that dcgrib2 will use for automatically naming the data files. I'll attatch
below if you aren't using GEMPAK and/or dcgrib2. In general, I just pipe the 
entire
set of grib headers to one dcgrib2 invocation and let the table define the file 
name,
nnumber of grids etc- instead of trying to maintain a separate set of 
pqact.conf entries.

!center subcenter modelid grid   Output grid file name                   
max_grids
!
<snip>

! OCEAN
007   x   044       @@@    data/gempak/model/YYYYMMDDHH_ocn.gem        500
007   x   010       @@@    data/gempak/model/YYYYMMDDHH_wave@@@.gem    500
007   x   121       @@@    data/gempak/model/YYYYMMDDHH_wave@@@.gem    500
007   x   122       @@@    data/gempak/model/YYYYMMDDHH_wave@@@.gem    500
!
! ICE
007   x   120       @@@    data/gempak/model/YYYYMMDDHH_ice@@@.gem     200
!
! RADAR Mosaic
008   x   000       @@@    data/gempak/model/YYYYMMDD_radar.gem        100
!
!
! River Forecast Center products
009  150  180       @@@    data/gempak/model/qpf/YYYYMMDDHH_ktua@@@.gem        
500
009  152  180       @@@    data/gempak/model/qpf/YYYYMMDDHH_kstr@@@.gem        
500
009  153  180       @@@    data/gempak/model/qpf/YYYYMMDDHH_krsa@@@.gem        
500
009  154  180       @@@    data/gempak/model/qpf/YYYYMMDDHH_korn@@@.gem        
500
009  155  180       @@@    data/gempak/model/qpf/YYYYMMDDHH_krha@@@.gem        
500
009  156  180       @@@    data/gempak/model/qpf/YYYYMMDDHH_kkrf@@@.gem        
500
009  157  180       @@@    data/gempak/model/qpf/YYYYMMDDHH_kmsr@@@.gem        
500
009  158  180       @@@    data/gempak/model/qpf/YYYYMMDDHH_ktar@@@.gem        
500
009  159  180       @@@    data/gempak/model/qpf/YYYYMMDDHH_kptr@@@.gem        
500
009  160  180       @@@    data/gempak/model/qpf/YYYYMMDDHH_ktir@@@.gem        
500
009  161  180       @@@    data/gempak/model/qpf/YYYYMMDDHH_kalr@@@.gem        
500
009  162  180       @@@    data/gempak/model/qpf/YYYYMMDDHH_kfwr@@@.gem        
500
009   x   180       @@@    data/gempak/model/qpf/YYYYMMDDHH_%%%_###_@@@.gem    
500
009   x   185       @@@    data/gempak/model/nohrsc/YYYYMMDDHH_kmsr@@@.gem     
500
!
007   5   181       218    data/gempak/model/qpf/YYYYMMDDHH_qpe.gem     500


Let me know if you need more info. 

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support


>From: "Bryan C. Hahn" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200102222346.f1MNkfL18863

>We have been receiving some GRIB products via the NOAAPORT NWSTG and are
>not familiar with the process/model identifiers:
>
>center 7, process 120
>center 7, process 121
>center 7, process 122
>center 7, process 181
>center 8, prcoess 0
>center 9, process 180
>center 9, process 185
>
>Seems Clifford Dey's Office Note 388 hasn't been updated in quite some
>time and contains no reference to these.
>
>Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
>Regards,
>
> Bryan
>
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