NOUS41 KWBC 021216
PNSWSH
Technical
Implementation Notice 12-33
National Weather
Service Headquarters Washington DC
815 AM EDT Mon
Jul 2 2012
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather
Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS Partners, Users and
Employees
From: Timothy McClung
Chief, Science Plans Branch
Office of Science and Technology
Subject: Impact on Downstream Jobs When Cycle of Short
Range
Ensemble Forecast System is Missing:
Effective August 1 2012
On or about
Tuesday, August 1, 2012, beginning with the 1500
Coordinated
Universal Time (UTC) run, the National Centers for
Environmental
Prediction's (NCEP) Short Range Ensemble Forecast
System (SREF)
will be updated. See NWS TIN 12-30 for specific
details about this SREF upgrade.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notification/tin12-30sref.htm
Due to the
current high resource usage on the supercomputers run
by NCEP, this updated SREF system can only be
run in its defined
time window.
In the event that the NCEP production suite is
delayed for any reason, the SREF may not be run for
a given
cycle, so as to preserve the timeliness of other
NCEP models. In
this situation, no SREF output products will be
disseminated, and
that cycle will not be rerun at a later time. The
SREF will
remain in this configuration until the upgrade to
the next
supercomputers in late 2013. We apologize for any
inconvenience
this causes our users.
Listed below are
impacts related to missing a SREF cycle,
including effects to downstream products that use SREF
input:
1. Dissemination:
No SREF products for that cycle will be
disseminated. This
list includes NOAAPORT, the NWS and NCEP FTP
servers, the Model Analysis and Guidance (MAG)
Webpage
http://mag.ncep.noaa.gov
and the Real-Time NOAA Operational Model Archive
and Distribution
System (NOMADS)
http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov).
2. MDL’s Gridded
LAMP: When SREF data are missing for a
particular cycle, it will automatically use a previous
cycle’s
SREF
data as input.
3. DNG-NAM smartinit: When SREF data are missing for a NAM DNG
cycle, the DNG codes will use the Global Ensemble
Forecast System
(GEFS)
to generate the probability of precipitation fields.
4. HREF: When
SREF data are missing for a cycle, it will be
treated as a 2-member (hiresw
NMM and ARW) ensemble.
5. SPC-SREF: If a
SREF cycle is missing, Storm Prediction Center
(SPC)
post-processing does not activate and SREF-based grids and
products are not updated until the next available
SREF cycle.
This would also
impact the SPC SREF Web page which lists the
latest cycle time from which output is available:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/sref/index.php,
6. AWC-ECFP: If a SREF cycle is missing, Aviation Weather
Center (AWC)
post-processing does not activate and the Extended
Convective
Forecast Product (ECFP) will not update until the next
available SREF cycle.
The ECFP web page shows the last SREF
cycle used in the production of the ECFP.
http://www.aviationweather.gov/products/ecfp/
For questions
regarding the scientific content of the modeling
system please contact:
Geoff Dimego
NCEP/EMC
Camp Springs Maryland 20746
Phone: 301-763-8000 x 7221
Geoff.Dimego@noaa.gov
or
Jun Du
NCEP/EMC
Camp Springs Maryland 20746
Phone: 301-763-8000 x 7593
Jun.Du@noaa.gov
For questions
regarding the dataflow aspects of these data sets
please contact:
NCEP/NCO Dataflow Team
Camp Springs, Maryland 20746
Phone: 301-763-8000 x 7198
Email: ncep.list.pmb-dataflow@noaa.gov
National
technical Implementation Notices are online at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notif.htm
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