(Wesley's E-mail address is now: Wesley.Ebisuzaki@noaa.gov)
From ebis@wesley.wwb.noaa.gov Wed May 12 07:23 MDT 1999 From: ebis@wesley.wwb.noaa.gov Subject: Re: 1948 NCEP Reanalysis pgb.f00 GRIBs To: Don.K.Hooper@noaa.gov (Don Hooper) Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:21:38 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: mail from "Don Hooper" at May 11, 99 05:34:37 pm > Wesley, > > I just started looking at the 1948 Reanalysis pgb.f00 GRIBs. Imagine my > surprise when I detected that they are 8 times daily (as are the sanl > ones, but not, apparently, the grb2d ones). What's up with that? I'm > glad the grb2d ones appear to be still just 4x daily, as I'm planning to > just use the 0z, 6z, 12z, and 18z files, which I'm thinking wouldn't > work for grb2d if it were 8x daily. I couldn't find any scoop on this > on either your or NCAR's web pages. It's a little stunning.... > > Thanks, > -Hoop Hoop, Prior to '57 or '58 the standard obs times were (n*6 + 3) Z. To get the best analyses, the analysis time was switched from (n*6) Z to (n*6+3) Z. Bob had to do a lot of work to make the files look like the current ones. The n*6 Z pgb.f00's are really 3 hour forecasts and the grb2d's are a 3-6 + 0-3 accumulations. I should write this up. Wesley