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[IDV #BIG-535678]: Where can I find GFS data older than 45 days old?

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  • Subject: [IDV #BIG-535678]: Where can I find GFS data older than 45 days old?
  • Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:29:57 -0600
Hi Dave-

> Full Name: Dave Linder
> Email Address: address@hidden
> Organization: UCAR/COMET
> Package Version: 2.8u1 build date:2010-02-02 22:30 UTC
> Operating System: Linux
> Hardware: Java: home: /.automounts/comet/linder/IDV/bin/IDV_2.8u1/jre 
> version: 1.6.0_17 j3d:1.5.2 fcs (build4)
> Description of problem: Folks,
> 
> I'm looking for GFS data, both initial and forecast, over Asia for a few days 
> in early February 2010.  After looking through the data available in the 
> "Community Data Servers" area, the only data sets I could find which might 
> help were the GFS 381km data set (which seems to have everythign I need but 
> on a very coarse grid) and longer range forecasts (forecasts > 180 hours) in 
> the GFS 2.5 degree data set.  Are there any other GFS archive data sets which 
> would give a better resolution than the 381km grid and would have forecast 
> grids between 6-96 hours?

There are two places:

- in the catalog, under Community Data Servers->Unidata Program Center 
Servers->Unidata LEAD Server->NCEP Model Data->Global Forecast System Model
- NCDC's NOMADs server 
(http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog/gfs-hi/catalog.xml)

Don Murray

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: BIG-535678
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open