To learn more about model numerical product capabilities and verification statistics please visit the Hydrological Prediction Center's new website address at http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/.
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) placed their latest position statement on Climate Change and Greenhouse Gases on the web at http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/policy/climate_change.html.
A list of AWIPS Ids for NWS Weather Forecast Offices and River Forecast Offices listed both alphabetically by identifier and by site location can be found at http://www.sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~jwake/StationIDs.html.
Although not updated since late 1997, Ilana Stern's Meteorology FAQ still provides an excellent reference start for data, CD ROM's, and research papers especially for students and teachers. The website still resides at: http://www.scd.ucar.edu/dss/faq/index.html.
GOES-East and GOES-West spring eclipse schedules have been posted for routine imaging and sounder operations. The schedule is available at http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/SSD/GOES/eclipse.html.
The NESDIS Office of Research and Applications home page offers tutorials on use of GOES and polar satellites products as well as explanation of enhancement curbs. The Forecast Products Development Team has also included reprints of excellent scientific papers such as: Applications of GOES Satellite Soundings in Pre-Convective Environments for Severe Weather Forecasting and Storm Relative Streamlines and Other Fields Derived from GOES High Density Wind Sets. Please feel free to point to: http://orbit-net.nesdis.noaa.gov/arad/fpdt/index.html.
January ASOS Commissionings include:
| AKH | Gastonia, North Carolina |
| EQY | Monroe, North Carolina |
| MGW | Morgantown, West Virginia |
| OVS | Boscobel, Wisconsin |
| PSF | Pittsfield, Massachusetts |
| RUE | Russellville, Arkansas |
| TCL | Tuscaloosa, Alabama |
| TIW | Tacoma, Washington |
| UZA | Rock Hill, South Carolina |
3-letter ASOS ID Changes:
| 07S to DEW | Deer Park, Washington |
| S22 to HRI | Hermiston, Oregon |
Several NOAAPORT notices have been broadcast to the user community alerting them of unofficial products identified in the ii portion of the WMO heading with "97" (Example FEUS97).
These products generated at AWIPS sites and re-broadcast over the SBN are a necessary part of local end-to-end testing and deployment of AWIPS workstations. NWS communications engineers are implementing a compromise solution in advance of a filtering mechanism from PRC. NWS will begin manually filtering out all "97" warning messages (WW, etc) and all aviation products (FT, SA, FE, etc.) that are the most problematic if not recognized by the user as test products. In addition, the NWS Gateway will transmit hourly NOXX administrative messages over the SBN to alert all users that any "97" messages they see are non-operational test messages.
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