Pretty major rewrite of internal data access (no change to the data
display). This was done to make the model names more accurately
depict the models that provide the sounding data. Changes are the
following
- RUC2 is now called Op40. It
is, as it has been since NCEP went to the 13km RUC,
the NCEP version of the 13km RUC interpolated to a 40km grid (and
stored at GSD as netCDF files). Scripts that call for
RUC2 data will continue to work. But
Op40 is a more meaningful name.
- MAPS is now called Bak40. It
is, as it has been, the GSD local version of the NCEP 13km RUC
interpolated to a 40km grid (and stored at GSD as netCDF files).
Scripts that call for MAPS will continue to
work.
- Op20 is the NCEP 13km RUC interpolated to a 20km
grid (and stored at GSD as grib files).
- Bak20 is the GSD local version of the NCEP 13km
RUC interpolated to a 20km grid (and stored at GSD as grib files).
- dev is the GSD development version of the RUC, on
a 20km grid (and stored at GSD as grib files). This model does
not contain TAMDAR data.
- dev2 is identical to dev, except that it does
ingest TAMDAR data.
In general, soundings from 20km grids take longer to load than those
from 40km grids.
In addition, for dev and dev2, analysis soundings at airports with
METAR sites will be stored for 30 days. Previously these, like all
other model soundings, were unavailable after about 24h. Also, at
these sites, 1, 3,
6 and 9 hr forecast soundings valid at 0 UTC are saved for 30 days.