The National Weather Service's Aviation Weather Center and the Federal Aviation Administration have launched an experimental, four-dimensional digital data set. This new Aviation Digital Data Service (ADDS) available via the Internet, contains weather observations and forecasts important to the aviation community. Generated by sophisticated numerical models, the ADDS offers a data set from which the private meteorological sector can generate customized aviation products.
The Internet address for the Aviation Digital Data Service is:
The address for the FAA's Aviation Weather research home page is:
A daily National Flood Summary is now available on the Internet at:
An NWS Modernization Update in WordPerfect 5.1 is available for downloading on the Internet at:
The January update (MOD0197.WP5) is contained in a compressed self-extracting file (MOD0197.EXE). If you are interested in a Wordperfect version of the Modernization Update should download this file.
In a continuing effort to transfer away from HDS computer dependencies, the National Centers for Environmental Prediction plan to discontinue the Cray ECMWF forecast files generated from files transferred from the HDS computer COM.CED1 files.
On Monday, 3 March, the following Cray files will be deleted:
/com/mrf/prod/ecmwf.yymmdd/ecmwf.yymmdd12.ecmgrb
ecmwf.yymmdd12.ecmgrbi
ecmwf.T00Z.ecmgrb
ecmwf.T00Z.ecmgrbi
The replacement files, fully generated on the Cray, from ECMWF bulletins in /dcom are:
/com/mrf/prod/ecmwf.yymmdd/ecmgrb25.T12Z
ecmgrbi25.T12Z
These files are generated on the Cray 4 and are available in the /com file for one day and the /scom file for 10 days.