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Technical Implementation Notice 11-10, Amended
National Weather Service Headquarters
1100 AM EST Dec 14 2011
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: Amended: Change to Wave Model Products:
Effective Date December 20, 2011
Amended to reschedule this implementation for December 20, 2011. Also, please note the following added to the last amendment of this TIN: Due to the large file size of the multi_1.txxz.spec_tar file currently being disseminated via the NCEP server, NCEP will begin making this spectral output file available in compressed format with the filename multi_1.txxz.spec_tar.gz. In a future implementation in 2012, the non-compressed file will be removed from the NCEP server, so we encourage users to begin transitioning to the compressed version now.
Effective on Tuesday, December 20, 2011, beginning with the 1200 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) run, the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) will modify the spectral output grid products from the Multi-grid Global Wave Model.
This model is run using WAVEWATCH-III v3.14. Recent upgrades of the model to v3.14 increased the spectral resolution of the model from a 25x24 spectral domain (frequency and direction) to a 50x36 domain. For backward compatibility, however, the spectral output from the model was kept at 25x24. This upgrade will change the spectral output to match the internal model domain.
The key changes are as follows:
1. The frequency spectrum will now start from 0.035
(instead of 0.0412)
2. The logarithmic increment will now be 1.07 (as opposed to
1.1). i.e., the next frequency will be 7% higher as opposed
to 10% higher earlier.
3. There will be 50 frequency components as opposed to the
earlier 25 frequency components (with the highest resolved
frequency being 0.963 as opposed to 0.406 earlier)
4. There will be 36 directional components as opposed to the
24 directional components earlier. This means that the
directional resolution will now be 10 degrees as opposed to
15 degrees earlier
The spectral output files from these models are disseminated via the NCEP server at
http://www.ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/data/nccf/com/wave/prod/
and
ftp://ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/wave/prod/
The following files will be affected:
akw.txxz.spec_tar
enp.txxz.spec_tar
multi_1.txxz.spec_tar
wna.txxz.spec_tar
where xx is the model cycle.
This change will not affect the non-spectral output files from these models. The spectral products that are changing are not available on NOAAPORT or in AWIPS.
Sample output files reflecting this spectral resolution change are available at:
ftp://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/waves/devop/
Details about the NCEP Multi-grid Wave Model are online at:
http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/index2.shtml
For questions regarding these model changes, please contact:
Hendrik Tolman
NCEP/Marine Modeling and Analysis Branch
301-763-8000 ext 7253
For questions regarding the dataflow aspects of these data sets, please contact:
Rebecca Cosgrove
NCEP/NCO Dataflow Team
301-763-8000 x 7198
ncep.list.pmb-dataflow@noaa.gov
NWS National Technical Implementation Notices are online at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notif.htm
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