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Changes to NCEP Models and
Implementation Dates to NOAAPORT
(date in green indicates item complete)
| WCOSS Implementation Date |
Description of Change | NOAAPORT (NP) Data Already on NOAAPORT? |
NWS SCN/ Informational Briefings |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 16, 2025 | LAMP/GLMP Model Upgrade Upgrade the Localized Aviation Model Output Statistics (MOS) Program(LAMP) and Gridded LAMP to v2.7 |
No Changes | NWS SCN 25-62 |
| July 31, 2025 | HAFS Model Upgrade Upgrade the Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System (HAFS) to v2.1 |
No Changes | NWS SCN 25-48 |
| July 31, 2025 | RTOFS Model Upgrade Upgrade the Real-Time Ocean Forecast System to version 2.5 |
No Changes | NWS SCN 25-47 |
| May 27, 2025 | BLEND Model Upgrade Upgrade the National Blend of Models (NBM) to version 4.3 |
No Changes | NWS SCN 25-30 |
| May 27, 2025 | SPC Post Model Upgrade Upgrade the SPC Post Model to version 2.1 |
No Changes | NWS SCN 25-32 |
| May 20, 2025 | P-Surge Model Upgrade Upgrade the Probabilistic Tropical Cyclone Storm Surge (P-Surge) to version 3.1.2 |
No Changes | NWS SCN 25-31 |
(date in green indicates item complete)
| WCOSS Implementation Date |
Description of Change | NOAAPORT (NP) Data Already on NOAAPORT? |
NWS SCN/ Informational Briefings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 30, 2024 | LMP/GLMP Model Upgrade Upgrade the Localized Aviation Model Output Statistics (MOS) Program (LMP) and Gridded LMP (GLMP) to version 2.6 |
No Changes | NWS SCN 24-80 | Sept 16, 2024 | NOSOFS Model Upgrade Upgrade the National Ocean Service Operational Forecast Systems (NOSOFS) to version 3.6 |
No Changes | NWS SCN 24-77 |
| Sept 13, 2024 | RTOFS Model Upgrade Upgrade the Real-Time Ocean Forecast System (RTOFS) to version 2.4.4 |
No Products on NOAAPORT | N/A |
| July 16, 2024 | HAFS Model Upgrade Upgrade the Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System (HAFS) to v2.0.3 |
No Products on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 24-64 |
| May 15, 2024 | NBM Model Upgrade Upgrade the National Blend of Models (NBM) to v4.2 |
see SCN for NOAAPORT changes | NWS SCN 24-41 |
| May 14, 2024 | STOFS Model Upgrade Upgrade the Surge and Tide Operational Forecast System (STOFS) to v2.1 |
3D Atlantic now on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 23-124 |
| May 14, 2024 | AQM Model Upgrade Upgrade the Air Quality Modeling (AQM) System to v7.0 |
No Products on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 24-40 |
| May 7, 2024 | SPC Post Upgrade Upgrade the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) Post Processing suite to version 2.0.6 |
No Products on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 24-36 |
| Mar 26, 2024 | EVS Model Implementation Implement Environmental Modeling Center Verification System (EVS) v1.0 |
No Products on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 24-23 |
(date in green indicates item complete)
| WCOSS Implementation Date |
Description of Change | NOAAPORT (NP) Data Already on NOAAPORT? |
NWS SCN/ Informational Briefings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 5, 2023 | NAEFS Upgrade Upgrade North American Ensemble Forecast System (NAEFS) to v7.0 |
No Products on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 23-104 |
| Nov 14, 2023 | UVI Upgrade Upgrade the Ultraviolet Index (UVI) to v2.0 |
No Products on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 23-99 |
| Sept 20, 2023 | NWM Upgrade Upgrade National Water Model (NWM) to v3.0 |
No Products on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 23-76 |
| Aug 15, 2023 | P-ETSS and ETSS Upgrade Upgrade Probabilistic Extra-Tropical Storm Surge (P-ETSS) and Extra-Tropical Storm Surge (ETSS) to v1.3 |
No Changes | NWS SCN 23-80 |
| Aug 1, 2023 | WFS Upgrade Upgrade Whole Atmosphere Model - Ionosphere Plasmasphere Electrodynamics (WAM-IPE) Forecast System (WFS) to v1.2 |
No Products on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 23-69 |
| June 27, 2023 | HAFS Model Implementation Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System (HAFS) v1.0 |
No Products on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 23-60 |
| June 20, 2023 | EPOCH Model Implementation Ensemble Prediction of Oceanic Convective Hazards model (EPOCH) version 1.0.4 |
No public distribution at this time | N/A |
| June 6, 2023 | GFS MOS Upgrade Upgrade GFS-based Model Output Statistics (GFS MOS) to v5.4 |
No Changes | NWS SCN 23-49 |
| June 6, 2023 | LAMP/GLMP Upgrade Upgrade Localized Aviation Model Output Statistics Program (LAMP) and Gridded LAMP (GLMP) to v2.5 |
Changes and Removals of Legacy Products to/from NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 23-50 |
| May 31, 2023 | Updrade to MAG Website Update Model Analyses and Guidance (MAG) website to v4.0 |
N/A | NWS SCN 23-56 |
| May 9, 2023 | GLWU Upgrade Upgrade Great Lakes Wave - Unstructured Forecast System (GLWU) to v2.0 |
Additions to NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 22-35 |
| May 2, 2023 | P-Surge Upgrade Upgrade Probabilistic Tropical Cyclone Storm Surge (P-Surge) to v3.0 |
Additions to NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 23-46 |
| Apr 4, 2023 | WSA-Enlil Upgrade Upgrade WSA(Wang-Sheeley-Arge)-Enlil Heliospheric Model (WSA-Enlil) to v3.0.5 |
No Products on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 23-07 |
| Jan 17, 2023 | NBM Upgrade Upgrade National Blend of Models (NBM) to v4.1 |
Additions, Removals, and Changes of various products on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 22-131 NWS SCN 23-52 |
(date in green indicates item complete)
| WCOSS Implementation Date |
Description of Change | NOAAPORT (NP) Data Already on NOAAPORT? |
NWS SCN/ Informational Briefings |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 6, 2022 | HYSPLIT Upgrade Upgrade of the HYbrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) to v8.0 |
No Changes | NWS SCN 22-106 |
| November 29, 2022 | GFS Upgrade Upgrade of the Global Forecast System Forecast System (GFS) to v16.3 |
No Changes | NWS SCN 22-104 |
| November 29, 2022 | ObsProc Upgrade Upgrade of Observation Processing (ObsProc) to v1.1 |
No Changes | NWS SCN 22-103 |
| October 25, 2022 | NOS OFS Upgrade Upgrade of the National Ocean Service Operational Forecast Systems (NOS OFS) to v3.5 |
No Changes | NWS SCN 22-91 |
| October, 2022 | GEFS Upgrade Upgrade of the Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS) Aerosols member (GEFS-Aerosols) to v12.3 |
NOAAPORT Changes | NWS SCN 22-90 |
| September 13, 2022 | HREF Update Update of the High-Resolution Ensemble Forecast (HREF) to correct MSLP field |
No Changes | NWS SCN 22-89 |
(date in green indicates item complete)
| WCOSS Implementation Date |
Description of Change | NOAAPORT (NP) Data Already on NOAAPORT? |
NWS SCN/ Informational Briefings |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 8, 2021 | HIRESW Update Update of the High-Resolution Window (HIRESW) to correct BUFR output |
No Changes | NWS SCN 21-80 |
| July 27, 2021 | ESTOFS Upgrade Upgrade of the Global Extratropical Surge and Tide Operational Forecast System (ESTOFS) |
No changes | NWS SCN 21-58 |
| July 20, 2021 | AQM Upgrade Upgrade of the Air Quality Model (AQM) to v6.0 |
No changes | NWS SCN 21-60 |
| July 14, 2021 | WFS Implementation Initial Implementation of the Whole Atmosphere Model-Ionosphere Plasmasphere Electrodynamics (WAM-IPE) Forecast System (WFS) |
No changes | NWS SCN 21-65 |
| May 11, 2021 | P-Surge Upgrade Upgrade of the Probabilistic Tropical Cyclone Storm Surge model (P-Surge) to v2.9 |
No changes | NWS SCN 21-41 |
| May 11, 2021 | HREF/HIRESW Upgrade Upgrade of the High Resolution Ensemble Forecast (HREF) and High-Resolution Window (HIRESW) |
NOAAPort Changes | NWS SCN 21-38 |
| May 11, 2021 | SPC-Post Implementation Initial Implementation of the Storm Prediction Center's Post-processing Suite (SPC-Post) |
No Changes | NWS SCN 21-50 |
| April 20, 2021 | NWM Upgrade Upgrade NCEP National Water Model v2.1 |
No Changes | NWS SCN 20-119 |
| March 22, 2021 | GFS/GDAS Upgrade to version 16 Significant upgrade of the Global Forecast System (GFS) and Global Data Assimilation System to v16.0 First major upgrade to the Finite Volume Cubed Sphere (FV3) dynamical core-based GFS |
NOAAPORT Changes | NWS SCN 21-20 |
| March 22, 2021 | Update LAMP v2.3 and GLMP Correction to post-processing error observed in GLMP |
NOAAPORT Changes | NWS SCN 20-99 |
| Feb 25, 2021 | Upgrade P-ETSS and ETSS Changes to Probabilistic Extra-Tropical Storm Surge and the Extra-Tropical Storm Surge models include coverage over Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and entire Gulf of America |
NOAAPORT Changes | NWS SCN 20-106 |
| Feb 3, 2021 | NWPS Upgrade Nearshore Wave Prediction System upgrade v1.3 |
NOAAPORT Changes | NWS SCN 20-116 |
| Feb 3, 2021 | SWMF Upgrade Upgrade of Geospace model to v2.0 |
No Changes | NWS SCN 20-100 |
| Jan 12, 2021 | Upgrade NCEP Websites to TLS1.2 Update several NCEP Websites to only support security TLS1.2 or higher |
No Changes | NWS SCN 20-61 |
| Jan 5, 2021 | Termination of guageQC Products Removal of guageGC from NOMADS and FTP |
No Changes | NWS SCN 20-112 |
(date in green indicates item complete)
| WCOSS Implementation Date |
Description of Change | NOAAPORT (NP) Data Already on NOAAPORT? |
NWS SCN/ Informational Briefings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8, 2020 | RTOFS Upgrade Upgrade NCEP Real Time Ocean Forecasting System v2.0 |
NOAAPORT Changes | NWS SCN 20-105 |
| Dec 8, 2020 | Implement CIP Begin Operationally running NCEP Aviation Weather Center's Current Icing Product suite |
NOAAPORT Changes | NWS SCN 20-97 |
| Dec 2, 2020 | RAP v5.0 and HRRR v4.0 Upgrade Upgrade NCEP Rapid Refresh to v5.0 and High-Resolution Rapid Refresh to v4.0 |
No Changes | NWS SCN 20-46 |
| Nov 24, 2020 | Implement ESTOFS Global Implement ESTOFS Global to replace ESTOFS-Atlantic, ESTOFS-Pacific and ESTOFS-Micronesia |
NOAAPORT Changes | NWS SCN 20-89 |
| Sept 29, 2020 | P-Surge v2.8 Upgrade Upgrade the Probabilistic Hurricane Storm Surge model to v2.8 |
No Changes | NWS SCN 20-81 |
| Sept 29, 2020 | NBM v4.0 Upgrade to National Blend of Models v4.0 Upgrade |
NOAAPORT Changes | NWS SCN 20-78 |
| Sept 23, 2020 | GEFS v12.0 Upgrade Upgrade NCEP Global Ensemble Forecast System to v12.0 |
NOAAPORT Changes | NWS SCN 20-75 |
| Aug 5, 2020 | HWRF Upgrade V13 Upgrade to the Hurricane Weather and Research Forecast Model |
No Changes | NWS SCN 20-54 |
| July 23, 2020 | Update HRRR v3.0 Update High-Resolution Rapid Refresh to downscale Smartinit code to support the upgrade of the Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis, the Unrestricted Mesoscale Analysis and the RTMA Rapid-Update |
NOAAPORT Update | NWS SCN 20-59 |
| July 22, 2020 | RTMA/URMA/PCP Upgrade Upgrade to the RTMA, URMA and Precip Analysis Model |
Additions to SBN | NWS SCN 20-45 |
| July 22, 2020 | RAP/HRRR Smartinit Upgrade Upgrade to the RAP/HRRR Smartinit Output related to RTMA/URMA |
No Changes | NWS SCN 20-59 |
| June 9, 2020 | HMON Upgrade Upgrade to the Hurricane Multi-scale Ocean-coupled Non-hydrostatic System |
No Changes | NWS SCN 20-51 |
| April 28, 2020 | NOMADS Port Change Remove access to NOMADS OpenDap 9090 port |
No Changes | NWS SCN 20-14 | April 21, 2020 | Update to MAG Website Update Model Analyses and Guidance website to include updated Global Wave Model to populate images of WaveWatch III |
No Changes | NWS SCN 20-41 |
| Feb 11, 2020 | Sea Surface Temp Replacement Implement Near Sea Surface Temp to replace RTGSST and SSTOI |
NOAAPORT Changes | NWS SCN 20-10 |
| Jan 21, 2020 | NBM Upgrade National Blend of Models upgrade v3.1 |
NOAAPORT Changes | NWS SCN 20-07 |
| Jan 17, 2020 | RTOFS timing changes Changes to the timing of RTOFS output products |
No Changes | NWS SCN 20-09 |
(date in green indicates item complete)
| WCOSS Implementation Date |
Description of Change | NOAAPORT (NP) Data Already on NOAAPORT? |
NWS SCN/ Informational Briefings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 2019 | GMOS GIRB1 termination and upgrade Termination of Gridded Model Output Statistics MOS |
NOAAPORT Removals | NWS SCN 19-28 |
| Dec 17, 2019 | GMOS GIRB1 termination and upgrade Termination of legacy BUFR and GRIB1 MOS |
NOAAPORT changes | NWS SCN 19-91 |
| November 12, 2019 | GTG Upgrade Graphical Turbulence Products moving into RAP |
NOAAPORT changes | NWS SCN 19-81 |
| November 12, 2019 | Removal of legacy NCEP products Removal of Redbook Graphics, GIF images, Fax Charts, AFOS Products and Bulletins |
NOAAPORT removals | NWS SCN 19-80 |
| November 7, 2019 | GFS V15.2 changes Changes to GFS for SST, land mask, new stations, and new satellites |
None | NWS SCN 19-84 |
| TBD | Soliciting Feedback - TUA BUFR by October 16, 2019 Seeking public comments on the Termination of NWSTG TUA to BUFR Conversion |
NOAAPORT removals | NWS PNS 19-26 |
| Fall 2019 | Soliciting Feedback - NBM by August 31, 2019 Seeking public comments on V3.2 National Blend of Models |
NOAAPORT changes | NWS PNS 19-18 |
| October 22, 2019 | LAMP/GLMP Upgrade Update to LAMP and Gridded LAMP |
Additions to NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 19-61 |
| July 23, 2019 | NOS Upgrade Update to NOS Cook Inlet, Lake Michigan, and Lake Huron |
NA | NWS SCN 19-51 |
| June 19, 2019 | NWM Upgrade Update to the National Water Model Version 2.0 |
NA | NWS SCN 19-42 |
| June 12, 2019 | GFS V15.1 Upgrade Update to GFS finite-volume cubed-shpere (FV3) core |
Removal of Legacy Products | NWS SCN 19-40 |
| June 12, 2019 | NAM and HiResW Upgrade Update to NAM and HiResW variables |
Removal of Legacy Products | NWS SCN 19-41 |
| June 12, 2019 | Marine Fog Replacement Replace Marine Fog output with GFS |
None | NWS SCN 19-39 |
| June 12, 2019 | HYSPLIT Upgrade Update to use 0.25 GFS and HRRR |
None | NWS SCN 19-38 |
| May 28, 2019 | Enlil Upgrade Update from V2.6 to 2.9 |
None | NWS SCN 19-36 |
| May 17, 2019 | Soliciting Feedback -Removal Legacy Hourly Public Announcement Removal Fax/Redbook |
NA | NWS PNS 19-07 |
| May 6, 2019 | GFS V15.1 Announcement GFS V15 Public Announcement |
NA | NWS PNS 19-09 |
| April 23, 2019 | Removal GEFS-based MOS Remove MDL GEFS MOS |
None | NWS SCN 19-23 |
| Feb 26, 2019 | GFS V15 Paused until TBD Public Announcement Pause of GFS V15 |
None | NWS SCN 19-12 |
(date in green indicates item complete)
| WCOSS Implementation Date |
Description of Change | NOAAPORT (NP) Data Already on NOAAPORT? |
NWS SCN/ Informational Briefings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 31, 2018 | HTTP to HTTPS Update all NCEP URLs to HTTPS |
NA | NWS SCN 18-100 |
| Dec 4, 2018 | RTMA/URMA Upgrade Upgrade to the RTMA/URMA/PCP |
Removals from NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 18-96 |
| Oct 3, 2018 | Blend Upgrade Upgrade to Blend V3.1 |
Additions to NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 18-78 |
| Oct 3, 2018 | EKDMOS Upgrade Upgrade EKDMOS runtimes for use in Blend |
No Changes to NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 18-76 |
| Oct 3, 2018 | GFSMOS Upgrade Upgrade GFSMOS equations |
No Changes to NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 18-77 |
| July 18, 2018 | GEFS/NAEFS Upgrade Upgrade GEFS/NAEFS Bias-Corrected and Downscaled Products and increase resolution to 0.5 deg |
No Changes to NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 18-50 |
| July 18, 2018 | CCPA Upgrade Upgrade to the Climatology Calibrated Precipitation Analysis (CCPA) |
No Changes to NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 18-51 |
| July 18, 2018 | EKDMOS Upgrade Upgrade to EKDMOS to expand grid for use in NBM |
No Changes to NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 18-53 |
| July 16, 2018 | GLOFS Upgrade Upgrade to NOS Great Lakes Ocean Forecast System (GLOFS) |
No Changes to NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 18-65 |
| July 12, 2018 | RAP/HRRR Upgrade Upgrade to the RAP and HRRR to extend forecast hours |
No Changes to NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 18-58 |
| July 12, 2018 | BUFR Station Upgrade Upgrade to the BUFR Stations List for several models |
No Changes to NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 18-57 |
| July 9, 2018 | HWRF Upgrade Upgrade Hurricane Weather and Research Forecast (HWRF) Model to increase resolution |
No Changes to NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 18-60 |
| July 9, 2018 | HMON Upgrade Upgrade Hurricane Multi-scale Ocean-coupled Non-hydrostatic (HMON) Model |
No Changes to NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 18-59 |
| Est Q32018 | Soliciting Feedback - RTMA/URMA by June 18, 2018 Seeking public comments on the Real-Time and UnRestricted Mesoscale Analysis |
Proposed changes to NOAAPORT | NWS PNS 18-14 |
| Est Q22019 | Soliciting Feedback - GFS by July 15, 2018 Seeking public comments on the Global Forecast System (GFS) |
Proposed changes to NOAAPORT | NWS PNS 18-15 |
| May 7, 2018 | P-Surge Upgrade Upgrade of the Probabilitistic Tropical Cyclone Storm Surge (P-Surge) |
Extended Hours to NOAAPORT | NWS 18-36 |
| Est Q32018 | Soliciting Feedback - CMAQ by Apr 13, 2018 Seeking public comments on the Community Model for Air Quality (CMAQ) |
No Changes to NOAAPORT | NWS PNS 18-05 |
| Est Q32018 | Soliciting Feedback - HWRF/HMON by Apr 12, 2018 Seeking public comments on the Hurricane Weather and Research Forecasting (HWRF) and Multi-scale Ocean-coupled Non-hydrostatic (HMON) |
No Changes to NOAAPORT | NWS PNS 18-01 |
| Est Q42018 | Soliciting Feedback - NBM by June 27, 2018 Seeking public comments on V3.1 National Blend of Models |
Additions to NOAAPORT | NWS PNS 18-02 |
| Est Q42018 | Soliciting Feedback - NLDAS by Apr 9, 2018 Seeking public comments to North American Land Data Assimilation V4.5 |
No Changes to NOAAPORT | NWS PNS 18-01 |
| Mar 6, 2018 | NWM Upgrade Upgrade to V1.2 of National Water Model |
No Changes to NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 18-16 |
| Feb 13, 2018 | ESTOFS Micronesia New area grid with ESTOFS |
Addition SHEF to NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 18-05 |
| Mar 13, 2018 | ESTOFS Atl SHEF Addition Updated to add SHEF text output to SBN |
Additions to NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 18-01 |
| Jan 30, 2018 | NAM MOS Update to the equations and changing a set of sites |
No Changes on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 17-130 |
| Jan 25, 2018 | Update LMP/GLMP Update to the MDL LMP and GLMP |
Changes on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 17-101 |
| Est Q32018 | Soliciting Feedback - HRRR/RAP by Jan 20, 2018 Seeking public comments to High-Resolution Rapid Refresh V3 and Rapid Refresh V4 |
No Changes to NOAAPORT | NWS PNS 17-40 |
| Jan 10, 2018 | GFS BUFR Fix to the GFS BUFR station output |
No Changes on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 18-04 |
| Jan 19, 2018 | Update NWPS Update to Nearshore Wave Prediction System |
Changes on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 17-84 |
| Jan 10, 2018 | New NOS GOMOFS Implement a new bay to NOS system - Gulf of Maine |
No Changes on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 17-108 |
(date in green indicates item complete)
| WCOSS Implementation Date |
Description of Change | NOAAPORT (NP) Data Already on NOAAPORT? |
NWS SCN/ Informational Briefings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 12, 2017 | Update RTMA/URMA Update to RTMA/URMA and NAM |
No Changes on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 17-105 |
| Dec 6, 2017 | Upgrade to the ETSS, New P-ETSS Upgrade ETSS model and implement new Probabilistic ExtraTropical Storm Surge (P-ETSS) |
NOAAPORT Additions/Major Changes | NWS SCN 17-63 |
| Nov 1, 2017 | Update HiRes/HREF Update to HiRes/HREF to add HREF products to NOAAPORT |
Additions to NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 17-106 |
| Oct 2, 2017 | Removal of SST Removal of low resolution Sea Surface Temperature |
No Changes on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 17-93 |
| Sept 26, 2017 | Update GEFS SST Replacement Update to GEFS SST assimilation |
No Changes on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 17-104 |
| Aug 22, 2017 | Update NWM Streamflow Processing Update to National Water Model streamflow assimilation |
No Changes on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 17-94 |
| Aug 15, 2017 | Implement New HMON Replace the GFDL hurricane model with new HMON model |
No Changes on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 17-83 |
| July 12, 2017 | Sea Surface Temperature change to RAP/HRRR Update to SST calculations in the RAP/HRRR |
No Changes on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 17-86 |
| July 27, 2017 | Upgrade Blend Upgrade the National Blend of Models |
Additions to NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 17-59 |
| Aug 2, 2017 | Upgrade HWRF Upgrade Hurricane Weather & Research Forecast |
No Changes on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 17-80 |
| July 25, 2017 | Upgrade GLW Upgrade Great Lakes Wave Unstructured (GLWU) |
NOAAPORT changes/removals | NWS SCN 17-75 |
| July 19, 2017 | Upgrade GFS/GDAS Upgrade to NEMSIO core |
NOAAPORT Removals | NWS SCN 17-67 |
| July 19, 2017 | Upgrade Wave Multi_1 Upgrade points in the Global Wave |
NOAAPORT Additions | NWS SCN 17-68 |
| July 18, 2017 | Upgrade Gridded Model Output Statistics over CONUS Replace the 5km GMOS over CONUS with 2.5km |
No NOAAPORT Changes | NWS SCN 17-64 |
| July 11, 2017 | Removal of Wave Multi_2 Discontinue the Hurricane Wave model |
NOAAPORT Removals | NWS SCN 17-71 |
| July 5, 2017 | Discontinue GHM Discontinue the GHM hurricane, replaced by HMON |
No Changes on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 17-45 |
| June 14, 2017 | Upgrade AQM Upgrade to AQM and Hysplit |
No Changes on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 17-55 |
| May 4, 2017 | Upgrade NWM Upgrade to the National Water Model |
No Changes on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 17-41 |
| May 2, 2017 | Upgrade RTMA/URMA Upgrade to the RTMA/URMA |
Changes on NOAAPORT - adding HI/PR | NWS SCN 17-17 |
| April 25, 2017 | Upgrade ESTOFS Upgrade to the Extratropical Surge and Tide Operational Forecast System |
No Changes on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 17-34 |
| April 11, 2017 | Upgrade P-Surge Upgrade to the Probabilistic Hurricane Storm Surge Model |
No Changes on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 17-26 |
| March 31, 2017 | Upgrade LMP/GLMP Upgrade to the MDL guidance |
Changes on NOAAPORT - adding variables | NWS SCN 17-22 |
| March 22, 2017 | Bug fix GFS Fixed a bug in the grid points on Pacific Region 20km GFS |
Changes on NOAAPORT - grid point update | NWS SCN 17-18 |
| March 15, 2017 | Upgrade NAM and Discontinue DGEX Upgrade to NAM Version 4 and discontinue the DGEX model output |
Changes on NOAAPORT - product removal | NWS TIN 16-41 |
| March 14, 2017 | Discontinue RTOFS N Atl Discontinue the North Atlantic Basin RTOFS system |
No changes on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 17-11 |
| March 7, 2017 | Upgrade NGAC Upgrade to Version 2 |
No changes on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 17-10 |
| March 17, 2017 | Public Comment on GFDL Removal Seeking comments to replace GFDL Hurricane Model with HMON |
No changes on NOAAPORT | NWS PNS 17-07 |
| March 17, 2017 | Public Comment on Hur Wave Removal Seeking comments to remove Hurricane Wave/Multi-2 |
No changes on NOAAPORT | NWS PNS 17-06 |
| Feb 14, 2017 | HiRESW snow cover bug fix Bug fix to snow cover assimilation affecting ARW member |
Changes on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 17-14 |
| Jan 10, 2017 | Upgrade to BUFR stations Changes to NAM, RAP, HRRR, SREF, and HiresW for BUFR station changes |
Product changes on NOAAPORT | NWS TIN 16-42 |
| Jan 4, 2017 | HiResW delivery time Change to delivery HiResW products between 12 and 20 minutes earlier |
Product changes on NOAAPORT | NWS TIN 16-40 |
(date in green indicates item complete)
| WCOSS Implementation Date |
Description of Change | NOAAPORT (NP) Data Already on NOAAPORT? |
NWS TINS/ Informational Briefings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 17, 2016 | Upgrade to NWPS Near-Shore Wave Prediction(NWPS) capability added for Western, Pacific, and Alaska Regions |
Product changes on NOAAPORT | NWS TIN 16-22 |
| Nov 15, 2016 | Upgrade to GFS-based MOS, EKDMOS, and National Blend of Models Upgrade to the National Blend and associated inputs |
Product changes on NOAAPORT | NWS TIN 16-33 NBM NWS TIN 16-32 EKDMOS NWS TIN 16-31 GFSMOS |
| Nov 11, 2016 | Proposed changes to NAM, DGEX Removal of legacy NAM grids on NOAAPORT and NCEP servers. Also the removal of the DGEX model |
Product changes on NOAAPORT | NWS PNS 16-34 |
| Sept 7, 2016 | SWPC Geospace New SWPC Geospace model |
No public output at this time | NA |
| Aug 23, 2016 | Upgrade to RTMA, URMA, NAM DNG, SREF Upgrade to the DNG suite |
Product changes on NOAAPORT | NWS TIN 16-27 |
| Aug 23, 2016 | Upgrade to RAP, HRRR Upgrade to the RAP and HRRR suite |
Product changes on NOAAPORT | NWS TIN 16-26 |
| Aug 16, 2016 | Upgrade to NAM MOS Upgrade to the NAM MOS |
Product changes on NOAAPORT | NWS TIN 16-15 |
| Aug 16, 2016 | Implement National Water Model New implementation of the NWM |
NO changes on NOAAPORT | NWS TIN 16-30 |
| Aug 2, 2016 | Wed Address Change Change of web service address - weather.noaa.gov |
Impacts Products on NOAAPORT | NWS SCN 16-16 |
| July 12, 2016 | Upgrade to GFDL Upgrade to the GFDL Hurricane |
No Products on NOAAPORT | NWS TIN 16-17 |
| July 12, 2016 | Upgrade to HWRF Upgrade to the Hurricane WRF |
No Products on NOAAPORT | NWS TIN 16-18 |
| July 6, 2016 | Upgrade to HYSPLIT Upgrade to the smoke and dust output from the HYSPLIT |
No Products on NOAAPORT | NWS TIN 16-05 |
| June 21, 2016 | HSOFS Implementation of new model Hurricane Surge (HSOFS) |
No public distribution at this time | NA |
| June 14, 2016 | Upgrade to GLAMP Upgrade to the Gridded LAMP |
Impacts Products on NOAAPORT | NWS TIN 16-13 |
| May 11, 2016 | Upgrade to GFS Upgrade to the GFS |
Impacts Products on NOAAPORT | NWS TIN 16-11 |
| May 4, 2016 | Upgrade to NOS Upgrade to the NOS LEOFS |
No Products on NOAAPORT | NWS TIN 16-08 |
| Upgrade Canceled | Upgrade to NGAC Upgrade to the NEMS Global Forecast System Aerosol output |
No Products on NOAAPORT | NWS TIN 16-06 |
| March 29, 2016 | Upgrade to NAEFS Upgrade to the North American Ens Forecast System output |
No Products on NP | NWS TIN 16-03 |
| March 29, 2016 | Upgrade CCPA Upgrade to the CCPA output |
No Products on NP | NWS TIN 16-02 |
| March 23, 2016 | Remove GFS products Removed the legacy 381km NH GFS Grid from NOAAPORT in favor of the new 1.0 deg Global. Also removing legacy fax charts and SSTOI. |
Impacts Products on NOAAPORT | NWS TIN 16-04 |
| March 14, 2016 | Modify NFCENS output time Modify the NCEP FNMOC Combined Ens to delay product output |
No Products on NP | NWS TIN 16-01 |
| Feb 4, 2016 | Upgrade AQM Upgrade the AQM to include bias-corrected products |
No Products on NP | NWS TIN 15-58 |
| Jan 13, 2016 | Upgrade NAM MOS Precipitation updates |
Products will be changing on NP | NWS TIN 15-33 |
| Jan 12, 2016 | Upgrade Wave Multi_1 points Add new points and change some existing |
Products will be added to NP | NWS TIN 15-59 |
| Jan 12, 2016 | Upgrade SREF Ceiling Upgrade the SREF to change units of ceiling height |
No Products on NP | NWS TIN 15-55 |
| Jan 6, 2016 | Implement National Blend of Models (NBM) New model. |
Products will be added to NP | NWS TIN 15-50 |
| Jan 6, 2016 | RTMA/URMA Upgrade RTMA/URMA upgrade for Min/MaxT |
Products will NOT be added to NP | NWS TIN 15-53 |
| Jan 6, 2016 | GMOS Upgrade Upgrade the 2.5km CONUS MOS |
Products will NOT be added to NP | NWS TIN 15-52 |
| Jan 6, 2016 | EKDMOS Upgrade Upgrade to expand 2.5km conus grid |
Products will NOT be added to NP | NWS TIN 15-51 |
| Jan 5, 2016 (WFOs MFL & BOX) | Addition of Near-Shore Wave Prediction (NWPS) to NOAAPORT New model. |
Products will be added to NP | NWS TIN 15-01 |
| est Jan 2016 | Upgrade of Global RTOFS The Global RTOFS will be upgraded |
Products will NOT be added to NP | NWS TIN 15-36 |
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| WCOSS Implementation Date |
Description of Change | NOAAPORT (NP) Data Already on NOAAPORT? |
NWS TINS/ Informational Briefings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2nd, 2015 | Upgrade of GEFS The GEFS will include a major upgrade with 0.5 deg resolution output. |
Products will NOT be added to NP | NWS TIN 15-43 |
| Nov 3rd, 2015 | Upgrade of ETSS The ETSS will be upgraded for Alaska region |
SHEF products will be removed from NP | NWS TIN 15-39 |
| Oct 21, 2015 | Upgrade of SREF The SREF will be upgraded, removing the NMM member and increasing remaining members to 13. |
Products will impact NP | NWS TIN 15-32 |
| Oct 19, 2015 | Upgrade of GLMP The LAMP will be upgraded on NDGD to include new elements. |
Products will NOT be added to NP | NWS TIN 15-41 |
| Oct 19, 2015 | Upgrade of GMOS The GFS MOS will be upgraded. |
Changes will affect NP | NWS TIN 15-34 |
| Oct 20, 2015 | Upgrade of Graphical Turbulence Guidance The GTG will be moved from AWC to NCEPs WCOSS. Output will change from GRIB1 to GRIB2 |
Products will be added to NP | NWS TIN 15-27 |
| July 21, 2015 | Changes to BUFR station lists for NAM, RAP, HRRR, and HIRESW The list of stations for which BUFR data are generated will be modified for the North American Mesoscale (NAM), Rapid Refresh (RAP), Short-Range Ensemble Forecast System (SREF), and High Resolution Window (HIRESW) models |
No changes to NP products. | NWS TIN 15-30 |
| Sept 8, 2015 | Upgrade of HiRes Window The High Resolution Window will be upgraded. Also included will be new model output from the HiResWindow Ensemble Forecast (HREF). |
Products will NOT be added to NP | NWS TIN 15-27 |
| June 16, 2015 | Addition of CFS-DNG to NOAAPORT Temperature and precipitation output from the Climate Forecast System Downscaled Numerical Guidance (CFS-DNG) will be added to NOAAPORT. More details available in the TIN. |
Products will be added to NP | NWS TIN 15-20 |
| June 9, 2015 | HWRF Model Upgrade The Hurricane Weather and Research Forecast (HWRF) model will be upgraded. The upgrade will include resolution increases, physics upgrades, and file name changes. More details available in the TIN. |
Not available on NP | NWS TIN 15-25 |
| June 9, 2015 | GFDL Model Upgrade The Geophysical Flouid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) Hurricane Prediction System will be upgraded. The upgrade will include some science changes, and file name changes. More details available in the TIN. |
Not available on NP | NWS TIN 15-26 |
| June 9, 2015 | Addition of ESTOFS Pacific to NOAAPORT Output from the ESTOFS Pacific model will be added to NOAAPORT. More details available in the TIN. |
Products will be added to NP | NWS TIN 15-15 |
| June 2, 2015 | Addition of NAM DNG and DGEX Products to NOAAPORT Output from the North American Mesoscale Model Downscaled Numerical Guidance (NAM-DNG) and Downscaled GFS by NAM Extension (DGEX) models will be added to NOAAPORT. More details available in the TIN. |
Products will be added to NP | NWS TIN 15-22 |
| May 19, 2015 | Extra-Tropical Storm Surge Upgrade NCEP will upgrade the Extra-Tropical Storm Surge (ETSS) model. The coarse resolution (5km CONUS & 6km Alaska) grids will be discontinued on the NCEP server. An additional product will be added to NOAAPort. More details available in the TIN. |
Additional products will be added to NP | NWS TIN 15-18 |
| April 28, 2015 | Addition of Great Lakes Wave Data to NOAAPORT Output from the NDFD-forced late run of the Great Lakes Wave (GLWN) model will be added to NOAAPORT. More details available in the TIN. |
Products will be added to NP | NWS TIN 15-02 |
| April 21, 2015 | Addition of EKDMOS to NOAAPORT Output from the Ensemble Kernel Density Model Output Statistics (EKDMOS) will be added to NOAAPORT. More details available in the TIN. |
Products will be added to NP | NWS TIN 15-12 |
| April 14, 2015 | Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis and Unrestricted Mesoscale Analysis Upgrade NCEP will upgrade the Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (RTMA) and Unrestricted Mesoscale Analysis (URMA) models. More details available in the TIN. |
Additional products will be added to NP | NWS TIN 15-08 |
| April 1, 2015 | GFS-Based MOS Warm Season Refresh GFS-Based MOS products will be updated with new warm season equations. Also, some cool season elements will be refreshed with new updated equations. Also, the station table will be updated. More details available in the TIN. |
Products available on NP | NWS TIN 15-09 |
| March 10, 2015 (Global, CONUS, AK, PR) Pac was postponed due to network concerns |
Addition of GFS Grids to NOAAPORT Five new GFS Grids will be added to NOAAPORT: 1 degree Global, 20 km CONUS, 20 km Alaska (AK), 20 km Puerto Rico (PR), and 20 km Pacific Region (Pac). More details available in the TIN. |
Additional products will be added to NP | NWS TIN 14-54 |
| January 29, 2015 | Ozone Air Quality Upgrade NCEP will upgrade the Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) system. More details available in the TINs. |
Not available on NP | NWS TIN 14-41 |
| January 28, 2015 | GLW Upgrade NCEP will upgrade the Great Lakes Wave model. More details available in the TINs. |
Products available on NP | NWS TIN 14-52 |
| January 14, 2015 | GFS/GDAS Upgrade NCEP will upgrade the Global Forecast and Analysis (GFS/GDAS) models. More details available in the TINs. |
Products available on NP | NWS TIN 14-46 |
| January 7, 2015 | Multi_1/Multi_2 Upgrade NCEP will upgrade the Global and Hurricane wave models. More details available in the TINs. |
Not available on NP | NWS TIN 14-40 |
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NWS is proposing to modify the delivery time of the HWRF output. -- Comment period has ended
| WCOSS Implementation Date |
Description of Change | NOAAPORT (NP) Dissemination Date or Already on NOAAPORT (ON NP) OR N/A if Data is Not Sent to NP |
NWS TINS/ Informational Briefings |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 14, 2014 | Extra-tropical Storm Surge Upgrade NCEP will upgrade the Extra-tropical Storm Surge (ETSS) model. More details available in the TINs. |
Some guidance available on NP | NWS TIN 14-31 |
| September 30, 2014 | HYSPLIT Upgrade NCEP will upgrade the HYSPLIT model, including the smoke and dust guidance. More details available in the TINs. |
Not available on NP | NWS TIN 14-37 |
| September 30, 2014 | Implementation of High-Resolution Rapid Refresh(HRRR) NCEP will implement the HRRR model and begin sending data to NOAAPORT. More details available in the TINs. |
Not available on NP | NWS TIN 14-32 - Full TIN NWS TIN 14-28 - adding products to NOAAPORT |
| September 16, 2014 | Update of Gulf of America Ocean Forecast Systems The existing NGOFS system will be upgraded and new systems for the Northeast Gulf of America (NEGOFS) and Northwest Gulf of America (NWGOFS) will be implemented. More details available in the TIN. |
Not available on NP | NWS TIN 14-26 |
| September 9, 2014 | Upgrade to Automated Sea Ice Drift Model NCEP will upgrade the Sea Ice Drift model. More details available in the TIN. |
Products available on NP | NWS TIN 14-36 |
| August 12, 2014 | NAM upgrade Upgrade to the North American Mesoscale Model (NAM). More details available in the TIN. |
Products available on NP | NWS TIN 14-29 |
| August 5, 2014 | New NLDAS system New North American Land Data Assimilation System implemented. More details available in the TIN. |
Not available on NP | NWS TIN 14-24 |
| July 9, 2014 | Change to RTOFS GRIB encoding More details available in the TIN. |
Available on NP | NWS TIN 14-25 |
| July 8, 2014 | Upgrade of PSURGE system Update to the Probabalistic Storm Surge system, including adding data to NOAAPORT. More details available in the TINs. |
Products available on NP | NWS TIN 14-11 NWS TIN 14-12 |
| July 8, 2014 | Addition of Hurricane Wave Model Products to NOAAPORT Select output from the Multi-grid Hurricane Wave Model will be added to NOAAPORT. More details available in the TIN. |
Newly-available on NP | NWS TIN 14-17 |
| July 8, 2014 | Change to Global Wave Ensemble System Upgrade to the global wave ensemble system including changing the name of the system to GWES. More details available in the TIN. |
Not available on NP | NWS TIN 14-22 note: date moved to 7/8 due to CWD |
| June 24, 2014 | New ESTOFS Pacific model Initial implementation of the ESTOFS Pacific forecast system. More details available in the TIN. |
Not available on NP | NWS TIN 14-27 |
| June 18, 2014 | Upgrade of the GFDL An upgrade to the GFDL Hurricane model. More details available in the TIN. |
Not available on NP | NWS TIN 14-20 |
| June 11, 2014 | Upgrade of the HIRES Window An upgrade to the HIRES Window system including resolution changes, schedule changes, and addition of a full CONUS domain. More details available in the TIN. |
Available on NP | NWS TIN 14-16 |
| June 10, 2014 | Upgrade of the HWRF An upgrade to the Hurricane Weather and Research Forecast System. More details available in the TIN. |
Not available on NP | NWS TIN 14-19 |
| June 3, 2014 | Removal of Select GFS products Obsolete GFS-based products will be removed including a few gridded products, old text products, and FAX and Redbook graphics. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are available on NP | NWS TIN 14-21 |
| May 1,2014 | Implementation of SBOFS First implementation of the San Francisco Bay Oceanographic Forecast System. More details available in the TIN. |
These products not available on NP | NWS TIN 13-41 |
| April 8, 2014 | Upgrade to the GEFS and NAEFS The GEFS and NAEFS output will be upgraded to include additional products. Also, on April 9, 2014, 2 meter temperature and total accumulated precipitation fields from the GEFS will be made available on NOAAPORT. More details available in the TINs. |
These products will now be available on NP | NWS TIN 14-04 Final implementation date of 4/8/2014 not reflected in TIN. |
| April 8, 2014 | Upgrade to Gridded MOS Several experimental elements added to the GFS-based gridded MOS. More details available in the TINs. |
These products are available on NP | NWS TIN 13-49 |
| April 8, 2014 | Upgrade to LAMP Changes will be made to the LAMP guidance for convective parameters. More details available in the TINs. |
These products are available on NP | NWS TIN 13-50 |
| April 2, 2014 | Upgrade to the SREF model. The SREF will be upgraded including code changes and additional products. Also, 2 meter temperature and total accumulated precipitation fields from the SREF will be made available on NOAAPORT. More details available in the TINs. |
Additional SREF products will now be available on NP | NWS TIN 14-02 - model upgrade NWS TIN 13-44 - add to NOAAPORT Final implementation date of 4/2/2014 not reflected in TIN. |
| March 12, 2014 | Change to delivery time of GFS WAFS products The WAFS grids will be made available on WIFS and NCEP ftp server roughly 20 minutes earlier. More details available in the TIN. |
These products not available on NP | NWS TIN 14-08 |
| March 4, 2014 | Removal of RTOFS Episodic Tracer More details available in the TIN. |
These products not available on NP | NWS TIN 14-06 |
| February 25, 2014 | Upgrade to RAP Upgrade to the Rapid Refresh model. Also, additional stations will be included in the RAP BUFR output. More details available in the TINs. |
These products are available on NP | NWS TIN 13-38 --RAP upgrade NWS TIN 13-35 --RAP BUFR changes |
| February 18, 2014 | Addition of ESTOFS to NOAAPORT GRIB2 output from ESTOFS will be available on NOAAPORT. More details available in the TIN. |
These products will now be available on NP | NWS TIN 13-41 |
| February 18, 2014 (rescheduled due to CWD) | Removal of HREF from NCEP server The High Resolution Ensemble Forecast (HREF) products will be discontinued. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are not available on NP | NWS TIN 14-01 |
| January 28, 2014 | Upgrade to RTMA Upgrade to the Real Time Mesoscale Analysis system. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are available on NP | NWS TIN 13-39 |
(date in green indicates item complete)
NWS is proposing to terminate legacy radar graphics products. -- Comment period ended
NWS is proposing to terminate legacy Climate Diagnostic Center products. -- Comment period ended
NWS is proposing to terminate legacy GFS low-resolution products. -- Comment period ended
| CCS/WCOSS Implementation Date |
Description of Change | NOAAPORT (NP) Dissemination Date or Already on NOAAPORT (ON NP) OR N/A if Data is Not Sent to NP |
NWS TINS/ Informational Briefings |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 12, 2013 | Change in ESTOFS delivery time The output from the ESTOFS model will be distributed roughly 20 minutes earlier than previous. More details available in the TIN. |
Not available on NP | NWS TIN 13-43 |
| December 11, 2013 | Global RTOFS GRIB2 to NOAAPORT Add new GRIB2 output from the Global RTOFS to NOAAPORT and change the resolution of products on NCEP ftp server. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are available on NP | NWS TIN 13-27 |
| November 13, 2013 | Additional fields in GFS WAFS products Add fields for four new levels to the GFS WAFS products. More details available in the TIN. |
NWS TIN 13-33 | |
| November 5, 2013 | GFS MOS and LAMP Wind Changes Forecast equations for MOS winds will be updated, with resulting effect on LAMP. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are available on NP | NWS TIN 13-30 |
| November 5, 2013 | GFS MOS for Western Pacific Change Add Total Sky Cover and Ceiling to GFS MOS text and BUFR products for the Western Pacific. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are available on NP | NWS TIN 13-22 |
| November 5, 2013 | GFS MOS Change Add Mean Total Sky Cover to 12Z text and BUFR products. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are available on NP | NWS TIN 13-20 |
| October 29, 2013 | Great Lakes Wave Model Update Physics upgrade to the Great Lakes Wave Model. More details available in the TIN. |
Products not available on NP | NWS TIN 13-25 |
| August 20, 2013 | Addition of satellite data to GFS model New satellite data, including METOP-B, SEVIRI data from Meteosat-10, and NPP CrIS data will be included in the Global model. More details available in the TIN. |
Products are disseminated via NP | NWS TIN 13-18 |
| August 13, 2013 | Temporarily change HIRESW preemption Change the HIRESW from being preempted starting at 3 tropical systems to 4 tropical systems. |
These products are available on NP. | NWS TIN 13-23 |
| July 25, 2013 | WCOSS Operational The NCEP Production Suite will be transitioned to the WCOSS. More details available in the TIN and PNS. |
Affects many products on NP. | NWS TIN 13-15 NWS PNS announcing availability of parallel data Page describing transition changes |
| July 25, 2013 | Upgrade HWRF model Implement FY13 version of HWRF. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are not available on NP. | NWS TIN 13-13 |
| July 25, 2013 | Upgrade HYSPLIT model Upgrade HYSPLIT system. More details in the TIN. |
These products are not available on NP. | NWS TIN 13-16 |
| July 25, 2013 | Discontinue legacy CDC products Remove the legacy Climate Diagnostic Center (CDC) products. More details available in the TIN and PNS. |
These products are not available on NP. | NWS TIN 13-10 NWS PNS seeking comments |
| June 11, 2013 | Discontinue legacy radar graphics Remove the legacy radar summary and radar legend graphics. More details available in the TIN and PNS. |
These products are available on NP. | NWS TIN 13-11 NWS PNS seeking comments |
| April 16, 2013 | Discontinue legacy GFS products Several legacy low-resolution GFS products will be removed, including the "MRF-lookalike" products. More details available in the TIN and PNS. |
Some of these products are available on NP. | NWS TIN 13-08 NWS PNS seeking comments |
| January 8, 2013 | Discontinue GDAS2 The legacy low-resolution GDAS2 will be removed. More details available in the TIN and PNS. |
These products are not available on NP. | NWS TIN 12-57 NWS PNS seeking comments |
(date in green indicates item complete)
NWS is proposing to terminate the Ozone Air Quality Predictions. -- Comment period ended
NCEP is soliciting comments on proposal to remove the GDAS2 assimilation products. -- Comment period ended
NCEP solicited comments on proposal to remove the RUC Surface Analysis. -- Comment period ended
NCEP solicited comments on proposal to change the dissemination time of HWRF output. -- Comment period ended
| CCS Implementation Date |
Description of Change | NOAAPORT (NP) Dissemination Date or Already on NOAAPORT (ON NP) OR N/A if Data is Not Sent to NP |
NWS TINS/ Informational Briefings |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 17, 2012 | Add 2.5km Gridded LAMP to NOAAPORT GFS-based gridded LAMP output on a 2.5km grid will be made available on NOAAPORT. |
New products will be made available on NP. | NWS TIN 11-18 |
| December 13, 2012 | 2.5km GMOS change A slight format change will happen to the 2.5km CONUS GMOS products available on the NDGD server. More details available in the TIN. |
2.5km GMOS products are available on NP, but the NP products will not change format. | NWS TIN 12-55 |
| December 5, 2012 | Add new NAM DNG products to NOAAPORT NAM DNG products on a 2.5km CONUS grid and 3km Alaska grid will be made available on NOAAPORT. More details are provided in the TIN. |
New products will be made available on NP. | NWS TIN 11-35 |
| December 4, 2012 | Ceiling/visibility bug fix in SREF A fix will be made to the calculation of visibility and ceiling in some SREF members. More details are provided in the TIN. |
Products not available on NP. | NWS TIN 12-56 |
| November 27, 2012 | RAP Product Changes Changes will be made to the contents/format of the RAP native grid output products. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are not available on NP. | NWS TIN 12-51 |
| November 20, 2012 | NARRE product changes 3 changes will be made to the contents/format of the NARRE output products. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are not available on NP. | NWS TIN 12-49 |
| November 19, 2012 | Add More 13km RAP Products to NOAAPORT Additional output from the RAP model on pressure levels on a 13km grid will be made available on NOAAPORT hourly from 0 to 18 hours from all 24 cycles. Currently only a subset of that data is available. |
New products will be made available on NP. | NWS TIN 11-19 |
| November 15, 2012 | Add 2.5km Gridded MOS to NOAAPORT GFS-based gridded MOS output on a 2.5km grid will be made available on NOAAPORT. |
New products will be made available on NP. | NWS TIN 12-09 |
| October 2, 2012 | RUCS/SRUC Removal The analysis system known as the Rapid Update Cycle Surface (RUCS) will be discontinued. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are not available on NP. | NWS TIN 12-40 NWS PNS seeking comments |
| September 25, 2012 | CFS v1 Removal The obsolete Climate Forecast System (CFS) version 1 will be discontinued. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are not available on NP. | NWS TIN 12-37 |
| September 25, 2012 | Multiple NOS Ocean Forecast Systems Boundary Change Several NOS Ocean Forecast Systems will transition from using Navy NCOM model data for boundary conditions to using NCEP's Global HYCOM model. More details available in the TIN. |
None of these products are available on NP. | NWS TIN 12-34 |
| Date September 25, 2012 | Columbia River And Estuary Ocean Forecast System NOS's new forecast system will be implemented. More details in the TIN. A second TIN that references a change in forcing conditions is also referenced. |
No products will be available on NP. | NWS TIN 12-23 NWS TIN 12-35 |
| September 18, 2012 | ESTOFS Implementation The new Extra-tropical Storm and Tides Operational Forecast System (ESTOFS) will be implemented. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are not available on NP. | NWS TIN 12-43 |
| September 18, 2012 | GRIB encoding change in two parameters The GRIB encoding of Haines index and RHPW will be modified. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are not available on NP. | NWS TIN 12-38 |
| September 18, 2012 | RTMA Sub-center change The sub-center in the GRIB encoding of the NCEP Stage II and RTMA precip products will change. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are available on NP. | NWS TIN 12-36 |
| September 11, 2012 | Implementation of NGAC Aerosol Forecast System More details available in the TIN. |
None of these products are available on NP. | NWS TIN 12-41 |
| September 5, 2012 | GFS Bug Fix A fix is being implemented to the Land Surface Model used in the GFS that resulted in warm season cool and moist bias. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are available on NP. | NWS TIN 12-42 |
| August 21, 2012 | Major SREF upgrade Upgrade to the Short-Range Ensemble Forecast System (SREF) including a resolution increase and a change to the models that make up the ensemble. More details available in the TIN. |
No change to products available on NP. | NWS TIN 12-30 NWS TIN 12-33 |
| August 7, 2012 | Minor Change to NAM calculations Changes to the calculation of snow cover fraction and GOES simulated brightness temperature in the NAM. More details available in the TIN. |
NAM products are available on NP | NWS TIN 12-32 |
| July 5, 2012 | Change in WAFS product dissemination The order will be changed so that WAFS GRIB2 products will be disseminated before WAFS GRIB1 products. More details available in the TIN. |
N/A | NWS TIN 12-20 |
| June 19, 2012 | Upgrade to Sea Ice Concentration More details are available in the TIN. |
Products are available on NP. | NWS TIN 12-27 |
| May 30, 2012 | Minor change to NAM/DGEX The surface wind gust speed algorithm used in the NAM and DGEX will be modified. More details are available in the TIN. |
Products are available on NP. | NWS TIN 12-24 |
| May 29, 2012 | New EKDMOS Implementation of new Ensemble Kernel Density Model Output Statistics (EKDMOS). More details are available in the TIN. |
Products are not currently available on NP. | NWS TIN 12-28 |
| May 24, 2012 - HWRF May 29, 2012 -- GFDL |
HWRF and GFDL Hurricane Model Upgrades The HWRF and GFDL Hurricane models will be upgraded. More details are available in the two TINs. |
Products are not available on NP. | NWS TIN 12-19 -- HWRF NWS TIN 12-18 -- GFDL |
| May 22, 2012 | Global Model Upgrade The data assimilation system for the Global Forecast System (GFS) will undergo a major upgrade. There will be minor output product changes to the GFS model output. More details are available in the TIN. |
Products are available on NP. | NWS TIN 12-22 |
| May 15, 2012 | Wave Model Upgrade The Multi-grid wave model will get a physics upgrade and a few minor product changes. More details are available in the TIN. |
Products are available on NP. | NWS TIN 12-17 |
| May 1, 2012 | Add stations to NAM and RAP BUFR output Specific details of stations being added to NAM and RAP are provided in the TIN. |
Products are available on NP. | NWS TIN 12-06 |
| May 1, 2012 | Replace RUC with Rapid Refresh Model The hourly Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) model will be replaced by the Rapid Refresh Model. Specific details are provided in the TIN. |
Products are available on NP. | NWS TIN 11-36 NWS TIN 11-53 NWS TIN 11-54 - impact on RTMA |
| April 17, 2012 | GEFS bitmask change The bitmasking in three GEFS output fields will be made consistent. Specific details are provided in the TIN. |
These products are not available on NP | NWS TIN 12-11 |
| April 3, 2012 | New NGOFS system The new Northern Gulf of America Operational Forecast System (NGOFS) will be implemented. Specific details are provided in the TIN. |
These products are not available on NP | NWS TIN 12-02 |
| March 12, 2012 | New HRQPF MOS New High Resolution Gridded Model Output Statistics (MOS) output on a 2.5 km grid over the CONUS is being produced for probability of precipitation(POP) and quantitative precipitation (QPF). These high-resolution products will replace the 2.5km gridded MOS POP and QPF. Specific details are provided in the TIN. |
These products are slated to be added to NP at a future date. | NWS TIN 12-12 |
| February 28, 2012 | New 2.5km Gridded MOS New Gridded Model Output Statistics (MOS) output on a 2.5 km grid over the CONUS is being produced for multiple elements. Specific details are provided in the TIN. |
These products are slated to be added to NP at a future date. | NWS TIN 12-09 |
| February 14, 2012 | Update Global Ensemble Forecast System The Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS) will be upgraded. Changes include an increase in model resolution and an adjustment to product delivery time. Specific details are provided in the TIN. |
Products are available on NP. | NWS TIN 11-47 |
(date in green indicates item complete)
NCEP soliciting comments on proposal to remove several RUC products from NOAAPORT and our servers. -- Comment period ended
NCEP soliciting comments on proposal to remove the Regional Spectral Model. -- Comment period ended
NCEP soliciting comments on proposal to change the computation of convective parameters in the NCEP models. -- comment period ended
| CCS Implementation Date |
Description of Change | NOAAPORT (NP) Dissemination Date or Already on NOAAPORT (ON NP) OR N/A if Data is Not Sent to NP |
NWS TINS/ Informational Briefings |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 20, 2011 | Wave Model Spectral Output Change The spectral resolution of the wave output products will be increased in the multi-grid wave model. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are not available on NP. | NWS TIN 11-10 |
| December 13, 2011 | Implementation of WSA-Enlil model WSA-Enlil predicts the solar wind at Earth, including the arrival of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) |
These products are not available on NP. | |
| November 8, 2011 | Add HIRESW Products to NOAAPORT Output from the High Resolution Window (HIRESW) model runs will be made available on NOAAPORT. Grids are available for the CONUS, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam with output from 0 to 60 hours. |
New products will be made available on NP. | NWS TIN 11-21 |
| November 1, 2011 | NFCENS Implementation Implementation of the NCEP-FNMOC Combined Wave Ensemble System. |
These products are not available on NP. | |
| October 25, 2011 | Global RTOFS Implementation Implementation of the 1/12th degree Global Real-Time Ocean Forecast System. |
These products are not available on NP. | |
| October 18, 2011 | Major NAM/NDAS Upgrade Changes to the NAM and NDAS include a major change to the modeling system and many additional products, including new 4km NAM nests. Please see the TIN for all the details. |
These products are available on NP. | NWS TIN 11-16 |
| October 11, 2011 | Upgrade to RTGSST The High Resolution Real Time Globar Sea Surface Temperature Analysis (RTGSST) will be replaced upgraded. See the TIN for more details. |
Products are available on NP. | NWS TIN 11-42 |
| October 4, 2011 | RTMA products declared operational The Real Time Mesoscale Analysis (RTMA) products will be promoted from experimental to operational status. The location of the products in the NDGD will change. |
Products are already available on NP. | NWS TIN 11-42 |
| September 13, 2011 | Removal of Regional Spectral Model The Regional Spectral Model (RSM) and all associated products will be removed from NWS operations. |
These products are not available on NP. | NWS TIN 11-34 NWS PNS seeking comments |
| August 30, 2011 | MAF Webpage Decommissioned NCEP will remove the Model Analysis and Forecast webpages. They have been replaced by the Model Analysis and Guidance (MAG) webpage. More details available in the TIN. |
Webpage | NWS TIN 11-06 |
| August 23, 2011 | Add 3-hr analyses to Global Ensemble CCPA products |
These products are not available on NP | NWS TIN 11-22 |
| August 22/September 27, 2011 | Gridded LAMP Implementation Gridded LAMP guidance for various elements has been available experimentally on NDGD. On 8/22 some modifications were made to the format of the products. On 9/27 the products will be made operational and disseminated on NOAAPORT. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are not available on NP until 9/27/2011. | NWS TIN 11-18 |
| July 14, 2011 | Upgrades to MAG Webpage Model Analysis and Guidance (MAG) webpage update including additional image resolutions, addition of 4-panel charts and changes to the selection mechanism on the top level page . Details available in the TIN. |
Webpage | NWS TIN 11-17 |
| July 5, 2011 | CFSv2 change in CDAS output The CDAS output from the Climate Forecast System v2 will be changed from outputting a lat/lon grid to outputting a Gaussian grid. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are not available on NP. | NWS TIN 11-14 |
| May 24, 2011 | NAEFS CMC ensemble data change Modification to the Canadian Met Center ensemble data used in the North American Ensemble Forecast System. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are not available on NP. | NWS TIN 11-15 |
| May 24, 2011 | HWRF Upgrade The Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast (HWRF) - Princeton Ocean Model (POM) system will be upgraded. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are not available on NP. | NWS TIN 11-09 |
| May 17, 2011 | GFDL Upgrade The GFDL Hurricane Prediction System will be upgraded. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are not available on NP. | NWS TIN 11-11 |
| May 9, 2011 | GDAS Upgrade and GFS Bug Fix The Global Forecast System (GFS) Data Assimilation System (GDAS) will be upgraded. Several bugs in the GFS model will be addressed. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are available on NP. | NWS TIN 11-07 |
| March 30, 2011 | Climate Forecast System Upgrade This will be a major upgrade of the Climate Forecast System (CFS). There will be major changes to the modeling system, output product content and format, delivery time of products, and where the data is made available. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are not available on NP. | NWS TIN 10-55 NWS TIN 10-55 amended w/note about CFSv1 termination |
| March 29, 2011 | HIRES Window Forecast System Upgrade The HIRES will be upgraded. Changes include model changes, addition of a Guam run and associated products, change to the Puerto Rico grid domain, additional elements, and a change to the directory location of the data. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are not available on NP. | NWS TIN 10-61 |
| March 15, 2011 | Model Analysis and Guidance (MAG) Website Operational NCEP's Model Analysis and Guidance Website, the MAG, will move from experimental to operational status. More details available in the TIN. |
Webpage | NWS TIN 11-05 |
| March 1, 2011 | Change to Encoding of WAFS GRIB products NCEP WAFS GRIB2 products will be changed to use Master Table 6 instead of 2 in the GRIB encoding. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are not available on NP. | NWS TIN 10-62 |
| March 1, 2011 | NAEFS Upgrade Additional elements will be added to the NAEFS system. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are not available on NP. | NWS TIN 10-50 |
| January 25, 2011 | Format change for NCEP BUFR products Software upgrades will result in format changes to NCEP BUFR products. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are available on NP. | NWS TIN 10-48 |
(date in green indicates item complete)
NCEP is soliciting comments on the new Model Analysis and Guidance Webpage. -- Comment period closed
NCEP is seeking comments on the change in GEFS product dissemination time. -- Comment period closed
| CCS Implementation Date |
Description of Change | NOAAPORT (NP) Dissemination Date or Already on NOAAPORT (ON NP) OR N/A if Data is Not Sent to NP |
NWS TINS/ Informational Briefings |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 14, 2010 | Addition of Ozone Products to NCEP Air Quality Model Add maximum 1 hour and maximum 8 hour ozone products for the CONUS. More details available in the TIN. |
These products are not available on NP. | NWS TIN 10-49 |
| December 7, 2010 | New GEFS and NAEFS Downscaled Products for Alaska Generate new downscaled probabilistic ensemble products from both the GEFS and NAEFS. More details available in the TIN. |
New products disseminated only on NCEP server. | NWS TIN 10-45 |
| November 9, 2010 | New GFS-based Gridded MOS Products for Hawaii | New products disseminated on NP and NDGD | NWS TIN 10-27 |
| November 2, 2010 | Multi-grid Hurricane Wave Model Upgrade Current NAH and NPH hurricane wave models replaced with new global multi-grid hurricane wave model. Details available in the TIN. |
No change to format of NP products. New grids available from NCEP server. |
NWS TIN 10-44 |
| September 28, 2010 | New RTMA and GFS DNG Products for Guam RTMA and GFS DNG products will be generated for Guam. Initially available only on NCEP server. Eventually added to SBN and NDGD. |
New products. Will be added to NP and NDGD Nov 16, 2010 | NWS TIN 10-43 |
| September 28, 2010 | New 2.5km RTMA Products for CONUS CONUS RTMA products will be made available on NDGD with a horizontal resolution of 2.5 km. These products will replace the current 5km CONUS RTMA products in NDGD. |
These products are available on NP. | NWS TIN 10-35 NWS TIN 11-20 |
| September 28, 2010 | Hawaii RTMA and DNG Domain Change Change domain of Hawaiian grid used in RTMA and NAM DNG products. See TIN for grid specifications. |
These products are available on NP. | NWS TIN 10-28 |
| September 21, 2010 | Hawaii and Alaska Ozone Models Declared Operational | These products are not available on NP. | NWS TIN 10-42 |
| July 28, 2010 | Global Forecast System (GFS) Upgrade Changes include: -Change in resolution from ~35km to ~27km -3-hourly output available to 192 hours -Model physics changes -Changes to parameters in some files The changes are outlined in the TIN |
No change to format or content of NP products | NWS TIN 10-15 |
| June 1, 2010 | HWRF Model Update General model changes/upgrades. See TIN for more details. |
No change to NP products | NWS TIN 10-17 |
| May 11, 2010 | Global Multi-Wave Grid Model Updates Product dissemination times will be changed -- products will come out individually as they are produced rather than all together at the end of the model run. Several other minor changes will occur. The changes are outlined in the TIN 10-13 |
Distribution schedule of products on NP will be changing. | NWS TIN 10-13 |
| March 9, 2010 | NAM and RUC Station Updates The station lists used to generate BUFR soundings for the North American Mesoscale(NAM) and Rapid Update Cycle(RUC) models will be modified. The changes are outlined in the TIN |
NAM BUFR collective products are currently available on NP and will be changing. | NWS TIN 09-43 |
| March 3, 2010 | GFS-based MOS and LAMP Upgrade MOS forecast equations updated and changes made to MOS and LAMP station availability |
These products are currently available on NP. | NWS TIN 09-39 |
| March 2, 2010 | RUC Extension to 18 hours The Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) model will be extended to 18 hours for all cycles. In addition, several modifications will be made to the RUC analysis/pre-processing code. The changes are outlined in the TIN 10-07 |
RUC products are available on NP, but the additional forecast hours will not be made available via NP at this time. | NWS TIN 10-07 |
| February 23, 2010 | Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS) Upgrade Changes include: -Several model changes outlined in the TIN 09-34 -Process generating id in the GRIB encoding changed from 80 to 107 for GEFS products and 80 to 114 for NAEFS products available on NWS and NCEP FTP servers -Changes to variables included in files available on FTP servers |
No change to NP products. The change to the GRIB encoding will not occur in the NP products. |
NWS TIN 09-34 |
(date in green indicates item complete)
| CCS Implementation Date |
Description of Change | NOAAPORT (NP) Dissemination Date or Already on NOAAPORT (ON NP) OR N/A if Data is Not Sent to NP |
NWS TINS/ Informational Briefings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/15/2009 | Global Forecast System (GFS) Upgrade Changes include: -New data sources and improved numerical techniques in the GSI -Unified post-processor for GFS and GDAS -Accuracy in formulation of some diagnostic variables improved -Additional parameters added to products available on FTP servers |
No change to NP products | NWS TIN 09-32 |
| 11/10/2009 | NAM BUFR Collectives Modifications -New stations will be added to existing NAM collectives. |
These products are currently available on NP. | NWS TIN 09-26 |
| 11/03/2009 | Minor NAM/DGEX Modifications -Minor bug fixes and their effects are outlined in the Technical Implementation Notice -Radar echo top height added to all NAM output grids currently containing simulated radar reflectivity that are available on the FTP servers |
No change to NP products | NWS TIN 09-33 |
| 11/03/2009 | Real Time Ocean Forecast System (RTOFS) Upgrade Model changes and their effects are outlined in the Technical Implementation Notice |
No change to NP products | NWS TIN 09-30 |
| 10/27/2009 | Short Range Ensemble Forecast Upgrade Changes include: -Change in model membership -Model version upgrades for several members -Increased physics diversity -Increase temporal resolution from 3-hourly to hourly out to 39 hours -Addition of forecast elements |
No change to NP products | NWS TIN 09-29 |
| 08/25/2009 | Global Forecast System (GFS) BUFR Product Change -Bug fix to the BUFR sounding output. |
These products are currently available on NP. | NWS TIN 09-25 |
| 02/24/2009 |
GFS (Changes to the Global Analysis System) A global application of the Grid-point statistical interpolation (GSI) system include: 1. Inclusion of METOP IASI data |
N/A | NWS TIN |
| 12/17/2008- 08/21/2009 |
MORATORIUM FOR HOLIDAYS AND CCS TRANSISTION TO POWER6 | N/A | N/A |
| CCS Implementation Date |
Description of Change | NOAAPORT (NP) Dissemination Date or Already on NOAAPORT (ON NP) OR N/A if Data is Not Sent to NP |
NWS TINS/ Informational Briefings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/19/2007- 01/06/2008 |
MORATORIUM FOR HOLIDAYS | N/A | N/A |
| 01/14/2008 | CFS (Climate Forecast System)/GODAS UPGRADE (Deep water assimilation). Changes: Extend the GODAS assimilation to 2175 meters
Correct a temperature bias in the global intermediate waters
Reduce the 8-day lag in the initial conditions to a 1-day lag for both ocean and atmosphere.
Introduce 2 new members out to 9 months.
Expected Benefits: 1. Improve the CPC week 2 and US Hazards assessments forecast 2. Improve spread in monthly forecasts 3. Correct temperature bias in global intermediate waters 4. Improve the week 3-6 monthly forecast |
N/A | CFS INFO NWS TIN |
| 01/28/2008 | REMOVAL of MANY GRIB1 PRODUCTS ON NWS/NCEP FTP SERVERS ftp.ncep.noaa.gov tgftp.nws.noaa.gov |
N/A | NWS TIN |
| 03/04/2008 | NWW3 (GLOBAL High Resolution) - Extend Northern boundary from 78N to 90N in support of AK Region. See 11/27/2007 upgrade below. | OB 9.0 | NWS
TIN #1 NWS TIN #2 |
| CONUS
- 09/15/2008 AK - ? HI/PR - 09/09/2008 |
NAM DNG (SMART INIT) - Create post processed high resolution grids for CONUS/AK/HI/PR domains which will provide smart initialization capability for GFE in AWIPS. These data sets are only destined for NOAAPORT in support of the NWS field offices. CONUS = 5 KM; AK = 6 KM; HI/PR = 2.5 KM |
OB 8.3 | EMC OUTPUT |
| 03/31/2008 | NAM - General model changes/upgrades. See TIN. |
No change to NP products | NWS
TIN #1 07-96 NWS TIN #2 NWS TIN #3 |
| 03/31/2008 | NWW3 (WAVE) - Great Lakes Wave model implementation. (Based on NAM initialization) | AWIPS OB 9.0 | NWS TIN |
| 04/15/2008 | RTMA (ALASKA) - Implement Alaskan domain. | OB 8.3 NP - 01/19/2008 |
NWS
TIN #1 07-90 NWS TIN #2 07-90 |
| 09/09/2008 | RTMA (HAWAII) - Implement Hawaii (HI) domain. | AWIPS OB 9.0 NP - 07/2008 |
|
| 09/09/2008 | RTMA (PUERTO RICO) - Implement Puerto Rico (PR) domain. | AWIPS OB 9.0 NP - 07/2008 |
|
| 06/24/2008 | WAVE ENSEMBLE - General model changes/upgrades. See TIN. | N/A | NWS TIN |
| 08/06/2008 | HIRES - General model changes/upgrades. See TIN. | AWIPS OB 9.0 NP - 06/2008 |
NWS TIN |
| 09/4/2008 | GLM - The spectral bulletins will be added to NOAAPPORT | AWIPS OB 9.0 | NWS TIN |
| 09/09/2008 | WAVEWATCH III - Create and send text spectral bulletins from multi-grid model to SBN/NOAAPORT |
AWIPS OB 8.3 |
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| 11/17/2008 | RUC - Model changes to improve model performance. See TIN for details. | N/A | NWS TIN |
| 12/16/2008 | NAM - Model changes to improve model performance. See TIN for details. | N/A | NWS TIN |
| 12/9/2008 | GFS - formulation of the freezing level will be changed, several new parameters will be added to the output files,and fix to calculation of precipitation type | N/A | NWS TIN |
| postponed until after 1 April 2009 | SREF - Upgrade WRF-NMM and WRF-ARW to v2.2, increase WRF-NMM and WRF-ARW resolution to 32km, upgrade RSM and increase resolution to 32km. |
N/A | NWS TIN |
| CCS Implementation Date |
Description of Change | NOAAPORT (NP) Dissemination Date or Already on (ON) OR N/A if Data is Not Sent to NP |
NWS TINS/ Informational Briefings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/01/2006- 01/01/2007 |
MORATORIUM on all upgrades while transition to next NCEP Central Computing System (CCS) occurs. | N/A | N/A |
| 02/13/2007 | Deletion of Several Legacy Fax Charts. | N/A | NWS TIN 06-76 |
| 08/08/2006 | NAM SIMULATED REFLECTIVITY PRODUCTS | 02/2007 | |
| 03/27/2007 | GEFS UPGRADE. New members sent to ftpprd.ncep.noaa.gov and tgftp.nws.noaa.gov in grib2 format only. | N/A | NWS TIN 07-11 |
| 03/27/2007 | GODAS UPGRADE. Include JASON satellite data. | N/A | GODAS
INFO JASON INFO |
| 06/06/2006 | SREF SYSTEM ENSEMBLE PRODUCTS | 04/2007 | NWS TIN 06-13 |
| 05/01/2007 | GFS UPGRADE. | 05/01/2007 | NWS TIN 07-21 |
| 08/22/2006 | 1/12 DEGREE GLOBAL SST ANALYSIS | 06/01/2007 | |
| 06/05/2007 | RTOFS UGRADE. | N/A | NWS TIN 07-33 |
| 08/22/2006 | GFS BUFR SOUNDINGS | 06/05/2007 | NWS TIN 07-17 |
| 06/12/2007 | PROBABLISITIC STORM SURGE | OB 8.3 | NWS TIN 07 |
| 06/19/2007 | HURRICANE WRF MODEL WRF/NMM based model. GFDL in parallel operations for 2007. |
N/A | NWS TIN |
| 06/26/2007 | RTMA UPGRADE - US DOMAIN Improve the accuracy of the experimental RTMA by implementing improved quality control processing, improved uncertainty estimations and logic to better fit observations. |
06/26/2007 | |
| 09/05/2007 | COFS MODEL REMOVED FROM PRODUCTION. Replaced by RTOFS. | N/A | NWS TIN 07-33 |
| 09/11/2007 | HIRES UPGRADE. Update model codes to the latest, supported version of the WRF (2.2). Increase WRF-NMM resolution from 5.2 to 4.0 km. Increase WRF-ARW resolution from 5.8 to 5.1 km. Reconfigure three existing CONUS domains into two larger domains runs twice per day. |
OB 9.0 | HIRES INFO |
| 09/18/2007 | AIR QUALITY UPGRADE - Domain expansion (3x to 5x) | N/A | NWS TIN |
| 09/25/2007 | GFS UPGRADE - Unified post processor. | 09/25/2007 | NWS
TIN 07-59 NCEP Change Notice-10/10/2007 |
| 09/25/2007 | NAEFS/TIGGE PRODUCT Change Add new products to the NAEFS (GEFS) operational product stream to support the THORPEX TIGGE project. |
N/A | |
| 6/28/2005 | RUC 13 KM (including BEST CAPE/CIN and model topography) | 11/04/2007 | NWS
TIN 05-40-05/23/2005 NWS TIN-03/31/2006 NWS TIN 06-01-09/14/2007 WMO IDS |
| 11/27/2007 | NOAA WAVE WATCH III UPGRADE. The new multi-grid wave model will eventually replace the Alaskan (AKW), Western North Atlantic (WNA) and Eastern North Pacific (ENP) wave models. All present GRIB and bulletin data from these models will be produced from the new model. The Global NWW3 model will be replaced by this model at a later date. Expected Benefits: Model structure will be used to introduce higher resolution products to the field in the future and will allow for future enhancements to coastal applications. |
No change to current NP products. OB 9.0 - New High Resolution Products |
NWS
TIN- 07-51-08/17/2007 NWS TIN 07-51-08/18/2007 NWS TIN 07-51NWS TIN 07-51-09/27/2007 NCEP Change Notice-10/12/2007 NWS TIN- 07-51 11/14/2007 |
| 12/4/2007 | GSI (Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation) UPGRADE - Changes: 1. Modify GSI code to permit assimilation of SBUV-8 and JMA wind data. 2. Upgrade to latest version of GSI. Expected Benefits: 1. Incremental improvement due to addition of new data types. |
N/A | |
| 12/4/2007 | NAEFS/TIGGE UPGRADE Changes: 1. GFS deterministic model bias corrected (bc) output through F180 2. GFS bc output used in GEFS processing 3. Combine NCEP/GEFS (20 member) and CMC/GEFS (20 member) to produce: Ensemble mean and anomaly, ensemble spread and mode along with 10%,50%,90% probability forecast at 1x1 degree resolution. 4. Statistical downscaling by using RTMA as a reference: a. At NDGD (5km) resolution (CONUS), generate mean and mode along with 10%, 50% and 90% probability forecast |
N/A | NAEFS INFO TIGGE INFO NCEP Change Notice-10/12/2007 NWS TIN 07-51NWS TIN 07-81 -10/24/2007 |
| 12/12/2007 | SREF UPGRADE - Bias correction for all fields, except QPF, and add Alaska domain for RSM component. | No change to NP products. |
NCEP
Change Notice-10/24/2007 Bias Corrected Fields NWS TIN-11/09/2007 |
| Date | Change | Notices |
|---|---|---|
| 03/07/2006 | 06/18 UTC NAM start time delayed 25 minutes IMPLEMENTED ON CCS. |
NWS Change Notice (MS-Word) |
| 03/28/2006 | 10 Member Wave Model Ensembles IMPLEMENTED ON CCS. |
|
| 04/19/2006 | NCEP operational and non-operational ftp services split apart. IMPLEMENTED. |
|
| 05/09/2006 | NAM BUFR soundings to 84 hours. IMPLEMENTED ON CCS. |
NWS
Change Request (MS-Word) NWS Change Notice (MS-Word) |
| 05/30/2006 | NAEFS (Global Ensembles) - MAJOR PRODUCT OVERHAUL IMPLEMENTED ON CCS. |
NCEP
FTP Server Change
Notice (HTML) NWS FTP Server Change Notice (HTML) |
| 06/06/2006 | SREF system ensemble products to NOAAPORT (Data sent to NWS/TOC ... not yet routed to NOAAPORT) IMPLEMENTED ON CCS. |
NWS
Change
Request-Grid 212 NWS Change Request-Grid 216 NWS Change Request-Grid 243 NWS Change Notice (MS-Word) |
| 06/06/2006 | Deletion of Several Legacy Fax Charts IMPLEMENTED ON CCS. |
NWS Change Notice (MS-Word) |
| 06/20/2006 | NAM/Eta replaced with NAM/NMM in WRF framework Postponed to June 20, 2006 due to Critical Weather IMPLEMENTED ON CCS. |
NWS
Change
Notice (MS-Word) NCEP Change Notice (HTML) |
| 06/27/2006 | SREF - Increase from 2 to 4 runs per day IMPLEMENTED ON CCS. |
|
| 07/11/2006 | 13km RUC 2006 Spring Bundle IMPLEMENTED ON CCS. |
|
| 08/08/2006 | GFS BUFR Soundings to NOAAPORT IMPLEMENTED ON CCS. (Data sent to NWS/TOC ... not yet routed to NOAAPORT) |
NWS
Change
Request (MS-Word) NWS Change Notice (MS-Word) List of parameters contained in these data Sample Data |
| 08/08/2006 | 1/12 degree global SST analysis to NOAAPORT IMPLEMENTED ON CCS. (Data sent to NWS/TOC ... not yet routed to NOAAPORT) |
NWS
Change
Request (MS-Word) NWS Change Notice (MS-Word) Sample Data |
| 08/08/2006 | NAM Simulated Reflectivity products to NOAAPORT IMPLEMENTED ON CCS. (Data sent to NWS/TOC, not yet routed to NOAAPORT) |
NWS
Change
Request (MS-Word) NWS Change Notice (MS-Word) Sample Data |
| 08/22/2006 | Real Time Mesosacle Analysis (5 km CONUS) to AWIPS IMPLEMENTED ON CCS. |
NWS
Change
Request (MS-Word) NWS Change Notice 06-24 (MS-Word) |
| 08/22/2006 | GFS - Hybrid sigma-pressure level implementation IMPLEMENTED ON CCS. |
NWS Change Notice (MS-Word) |
| 08/22/2006 | Great Lakes wave model IMPLEMENTED ON CCS. |
|
| 12/19/2006 | NAM - WRF - NDAS - DGEX Crisis change IMPLEMENTED ON CCS. |
NWS Technical Information Notice |
