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Technical Implementation Notice 10-48, Amended
National
Weather Service Headquarters
710 AM
EDT Mon Oct 18 2010
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 Brach
Office of Science and Technology
Subject: Amended: Changes to NCEP BUFR Products:
Effective December 14, 2010
Amended to remove references to Model Output Statistics (MOS) and
Localized Aviation MOS Product (LAMP) products. This change will not affect the format of MOS and LAMP BUFR products.
Effective
Tuesday, December 14, 2010, beginning with the 1200 Coordinated Universal Time
(UTC) run, the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) will
upgrade the software used to create model output products in BUFR format. This upgrade will result in the
following two changes to the format of all NCEP BUFR products:
1. The
identification section of each BUFR message will
indicate the use of version 13 of the WMO Master Table.
NCEP BUFR products currently use version 12.
2. An
additional empty (zero subset) BUFR message will now be
included within all files that contain BUFR table
Sample
NCEP BUFR products are available at:
ftp://ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data1/nccf/com/bufrlib
The “current” directory contains the BUFR
products created with the current operational BUFR software. The “new” directory contains the same
products generated with the new BUFR software.
For
questions regarding these changes, please contact:
Jeff Ator
NCEP/Central
Operations
301-763-8000
x 7104
or
Rebecca
Cosgrove
NCEP/Central
Operations
301-763-8000
x 7198
NWS
National Technical Implementation Notices are online at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notif.htm
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