2010 - CHANGES TO NCEP MODELS
2010 - IMPLEMENTATION DATES TO NOAAPORT
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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	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	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 -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

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