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Technical Implementation Notice 10-57

National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC

705 AM EST Fri Nov 19 2010

 

To:       Subscribers

          -Family of Services

          -NOAA Weather Wire Service

          -NOAAPORT

          -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network

          Other NWS Partners, Users and Employees

 

From:     Jay Lawrimore      

          Chief, Climate Analysis Branch

          National Climatic Data Center

 

SUBJECT:  Removal of Cooperative Observer Program Identifiers

          From the Hourly02 and Daily01 Products Effective

          March 22, 2011

 

Effective Tuesday, March 22, 2011, at approximately 1500 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), The National Climatic Data Center will remove the Cooperative Observer Program (Coop) identifiers in the hourly02 (CRNH02) and daily01 (CRND01) products produced for stations in the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) and U.S. Historical Climatology Network-Modernization (USHCN-M). This change will affect the format of both products by shifting the start and end positions of all following data columns.

 

For both products the second data column is the Coop identifier and is 6 characters wide, starting at character 7 and ending at character 12. The removal of this column will shift all following columns to the left by 7 characters, including a column separator character.  The content and width of those following columns will not be changed.

 

The Weather Bureau Army Navy (WBAN) identifiers will still be present in both products and can be used as station identifiers. The use of the Coop identifier is being discontinued in these networks; the Coop field may read 999999 before the format change is in effect.

 

If you have questions or feedback, please contact:

 

  Scott Embler

  National Climatic Data Center

  151 Patton Ave

  Asheville , NC   28803

  828-350-2027

  Scott.Embler@noaa.gov

 

NWS Technical Implementation Notices are online at:

 

  http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm

 

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