Re: description of NAM

Hi Geoff,

Comments inline below.

On 12/1/2011 7:31 AM, Geoff DiMego wrote:
> Linda;
>
> Hope all is going well for you and yours especially now that the 
> hectic holiday season is upon us ^_^
>
> I hate to be a bother, but I have a favor (yes ANOTHER one!) and a 
> question to ask.
No apologies needed
> A USGS user had asked me whether we would be making "Best Time Series" 
> aggregations for the new NAM nests (4 km CONUS, 6 km Alaska, 3 km 
> Hawaii & 3 km Puerto Rico-Hispaniola).  I pleaded ignorance.  He 
> pointed me at 
> http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/catalog/fmrc/NCEP/NAM/CONUS_12km/catalog.html?dataset=fmrc/NCEP/NAM/CONUS_12km/NCEP-NAM-CONUS_12km-noaaport_best.ncd
> which I admit I was unaware of - my bad, but I recognize the unique & 
> useful aspect of this product which you are constructing.

If  you ever get to Boulder, you should plan to visit Unidata.  We could 
bring you up to speed with what;s going  on here.  You might find some 
of the projects of interest to NCEP.

> The favor is to update the 3rd Summary bullet under Documentation to: 
> NCEP Nonhydrostatic Multiscale Model on B-grid (NMMB) running in the 
> NOAA Environmental Modeling System (NEMS) infrastructure, and 
> Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation (GSI) analysis.  You could also 
> add a bullet called NCEP Analysis documentaton / tutorial and link it 
> to http://www.dtcenter.org/com-GSI/users/tutorials/11_2.php .

I'm sure we can do that.  I've cc'd Doug Dirks and Ethan Davis who can 
check it out and make the appropriate edits.

> My question comes from the one the USGS guy asked: are you planning to 
> aggregate Best Time Series for the new NAM nests?

I'll bet the "USGS guy" is Rich Signell, who is a liaison to our Users 
Committee.  He definitely keeps us on our toes.  I'll defer your 
question to Ethan.

Hope  your holidays are joyful!

Linda

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