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Hi Don: We are doing another huge refactor to deal with these very large grib collections, funded by NCDC. Its on the 4.5 branch which uses Java 7. If you want to be a beta tester, Ill let you know when its ready (probably Jan, but might be sooner). John > Hi- > > We are looking at the possibility of serving up NOAA's new GEFS > Reforecast2 dataset through our TDS. This dataset was just announced in > the latest Bulletin of the AMS: > > http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00014.1 > > This is a huge dataset (>130 TB). The data are stored in GRIB2 files > with the following directory structure: > > yyyy/yyyyMM/yyyyMMddHH/ens/resolution/ > > and each file is a particular variable with all forecast times in it. > For each variable, there is an week1 and week2 file (0-192hr, > 186-384hr). The resolution in the path is either the native gaussian > (~.5degrees) and an interpolated 1x1 degree version. It is updated > nightly and currently only has the 00Z model run. > > The data is available now via FTP: > > http://ftp.cdc.noaa.gov/Projects/Reforecast2 > > But some users would like OPeNDAP access to the data. > > Wwat's the best way to set this up in the TDS? We could do a simple > dataset scan, but I'm wondering if the new grib feature collection would > handle this. > > Thanks for your help. > > Don > -- > Don Murray > NOAA/ESRL/PSD and CIRES > 303-497-3596 > http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/people/don.murray/ > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: AUU-741223 Department: Support THREDDS Priority: Critical Status: Open