NCO PMB - Upcoming Changes

PAGE UPDATED: 05/20/2008

2008 - CHANGES TO NCEP MODELS
2008 - IMPLEMENTATION DATES TO NOAAPORT

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 NCEP INFO PAGE
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
03/08/2008	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 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	EMC OUTPUT NWS TIN #1 NWS TIN #2
N/A	RTMA (HAWAII) - Implement Hawaii (HI) domain.	AWIPS OB 9.0 NP - 07/2008
N/A	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
08/05/2008	HIRES - General model changes/upgrades. See TIN.	AWIPS OB 9.0 NP - 06/2008	NWS TIN

2007 - CHANGES TO NCEP MODELS
2007 - IMPLEMENTATION DATES TO NOAAPORT

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 transistion 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
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
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
05/01/2007	GFS UPGRADE.	05/01/2007	NWS TIN EMC parallel run info GFS History File Info
08/22/2006	1/12 DEGREE GLOBAL SST ANALYSIS	06/01/2007	NWS Change Notice
06/05/2007	RTOFS UGRADE.	N/A	NWS TIN
08/22/2006	GFS BUFR SOUNDINGS	06/05/2007	NWS TIN
06/12/2007	PROBABLISITIC STORM SURGE	OB 8.3	NWS TIN
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
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 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-05/23/2005 NWS TIN-03/31/2006 NWS TIN-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-08/17/2007 NWS TIN-08/18/2007 NWS TIN-09/27/2007 NCEP Change Notice-10/12/2007 NWS TIN-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	GSI INFO
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-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

FY2006 IMPLEMENTATIONS ON CCS AND NOAAPORT

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.	NCEP Change Notice (HTML)
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 (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