Information regarding LAMP Products on the NWS server
The GFS-LAMP guidance is currently available for the cycles of:
0000, 0100, 0300, 0400, 0500, 0600, 0700, 0900, 1000, 1100, 1200,
1300, 1500, 1600, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2100, 2200 and 2300 UTC
(The next cycles planned are: 0200, 0800, 1400, and 2000 UTC, and
will be effective 1st Quarter FY09).
Guidance will be available for all cycles in the future.
The GFS LAMP station guidance is available in the following formats:
ASCII text bulletin and BUFR format. The GFS LAMP gridded
Thunderstorm guidance is available in GRIB2 format.
Beginning July 25, 2006, these products are being disseminated via the NWS
Telecommunications Gateway to the SBN and NOAAPORT. In addition, the guidance
is available on the LAMP web site
http://weather.gov/mdl/gfslamp/gfslamp.shtml
Beginning August 8, 2006, the GFS LAMP products are also
be available via anonymous ftp from the NWS tgftp server. The details for retrieving
the data from the NWS server can be found in the table below.
For details regarding the ASCII text product see
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/gfslamp/docs/LAMP_description.shtml
For details regarding the BUFR product see
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/gfslamp/docs/BufrLAMPintro05.shtml
For details regarding the GRIB2 products see
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/gfslamp/docs/lampgrib2.shtml
GFS LAMP Products available on NWS server
ftp to tgftp.nws.noaa.gov
username is anonymous
supply your email address for the password
set type ASCII for text data
set type binary for BUFR and GRIB2 data
Data Type
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NWS server location
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ASCII Text Bulletin
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SL.us008001/DF.anf/DC.lampgfs/cy.HH.txt where HH=cycle hour
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for web access click here
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BUFR
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SL.us008001/DF.bf/DC.lampgfs/cy.HH.bin where HH=cycle hour
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for web access click here
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GRIB2
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Thunderstorm Probabilities in a 2-hr period:
SL.us008001/ST.opnl/DF.gr2/DC.ndgd/GT.lampgfs/AR.conus/ds.pts02.bin
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Thunderstorm Occurrence (Yes/No) in a 2-hr period:
SL.us008001/ST.opnl/DF.gr2/DC.ndgd/GT.lampgfs/AR.conus/ds.ots02.bin
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for web access click here
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