NCO PMB - Upcoming Changes

PAGE UPDATED: 02/05/2010

2010 - CHANGES TO NCEP MODELS
2010 - IMPLEMENTATION DATES TO NOAAPORT
(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
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	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
Scheduled date February 23, 2010	Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS) Upgrade Changes include: -Several model changes outlined in the TIN -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

2009 - CHANGES TO NCEP MODELS
2009 - IMPLEMENTATION DATES TO NOAAPORT
(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 2. Use of variational qc 3. Change in land/snow/ice skin temperature variance 4. Flow dependent reweighting of background error variances 5. Addition of background error covariance input file 6. Reduction of number of airs water vapor changels used 7. Use of new version and coefficients for community radiative transfer model 8. Modification of height assignment for height based wind observations 9. Modification of surface land use file to remove a few permanent (~12) glacial points to improve surface temperature forecasts over those points.	N/A	NWS TIN
12/17/2008- 08/21/2009	MORATORIUM FOR HOLIDAYS AND CCS TRANSISTION TO POWER6	N/A	N/A

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
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 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
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
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

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