Public Information Statement
Issued by NWS National HQ
Issued by NWS National HQ
243 NOUS41 KWBC 161330 PNSWSH Service Change Notice 24-89 National Weather Service Headquarters Silver Spring MD 930 AM EDT Mon Sep 16 2024 To: Subscribers: -NOAA Weather Wire Service -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network -NOAAPort Other NWS Partners, Users and Employees From: David Michaud, Director NCEP Central Operations Subject: Upgrade of the Real Time Ocean Forecast System (RTOFS) to version 2.4: Effective September 13, 2024 Effective on or about Tuesday, September 13, 2024 with the 1200 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) cycle, The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) will upgrade the Real Time Ocean Forecast System (RTOFS) to v2.4. The proposed changes include: - HYCOM upgrades that mitigate HYCOM crashes and improve model stability - Added integrity check for all netCDF and HDF5 data - Added Restart capability for Hybrid Ocean Model (HYCOM) - Added processing of GOES-18 data The above changes will help prevent delays in delivery times. Selected OpenDAP files for rtofs_glo_3dz will be removed from NOMADS with this upgrade. rtofs_glo_3dz_nowcast *.info rtofs_glo_3dz_nowcast *.dds rtofs_glo_3dz_nowcast *.das rtofs_glo_3dz_forecast *.info rtofs_glo_3dz_forecast *.dds rtofs_glo_3dz_forecast *.das Please submit comments, questions, or requests on the upgrade to: Avichal Mehra NWS/NCEP Environment Modeling Center College Park, MD avichal.mehra@noaa.gov For questions on the data flow aspects, please contact: Margaret Curtis, HPC Dataflow Team Lead NWS/NCEP Central Operations College Park, MD ncep.pmb.dataflow@noaa.gov National Service Change Notices are online at: https://www.weather.gov/notification/