>Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:13:41 -0400
>From: Perry Shafran <Perry.Shafran@noaa.gov>
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>Subject: North American Regional Reanalysis Production data/plots now
>available
>
>Greetings,
>
>We are proud to announce that a limited amount of North American
>Regional Reanalysis data is now available to users.  Here is how to
>access what is available.
>
>Data for one of our streams, starting on 1 February 1995, are
>available.  You can access this data in the following way:
>
>ftp wesley.ncep.noaa.gov
>user anonymous
>password your@email.address
>cd /pub/regional_reanl/analyses/merged_AWIP32
>
>In this directory you will find 3-hourly analyses, starting 1 Feb
>1995, and they are now being written as they are being produced.
>The analysis files contain several items from the first-guess files
>that are not written in analysis files, such as precipitation and
>heat fluxes.  This is our posted output grid #221, and not the
>native grid (although the output grid covers roughly the same area
>and is the same dimensions as the Eta model's native grid).  More
>information on this particular grid can be found here:
>
>http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/docs/on388/tableb.html#GRID221
>
>In the merged_AWIP32 directory you can also find a GrADS control
>file and index file, (awpmrg.ctl and awpmrg.idx).  There is also a
>sample inventory of the grib file (AWIP_merged.txt) listing every
>item in the grib file.  Hopefully we'll be able to put more data on
>an archive soon for users, but this preliminary year will allow
>users to get used to our data.
>
>We also have been making plots, in .png format, of many items as
>well.  These plots are also available on wesley.ncep.noaa.gov.  The
>directory is:
>
>cd /var/ftp/pub/regional_reanl/monitoring/plots
>
>In this directory you can cd to the year that you want, then cd to
>the day, and you will find lists of our .png files.  More .png files
>will be added to this directory as they become available.
>
>You can also access the .png files and data through the web.  The
>Regional Reanalysis website is:
>
>http://wwwt.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/rreanl/index.html
>
>You can see .png files through the above website web.  You can also
>access the analysis files, but it is much easier and thus highly
>recommended to ftp to wesley.ncep.noaa.gov directly as described
>above.  Soon there will be a web-based ftp system available for this
>data that will allow you to get files much more easily, as well as
>make plots.
>
>If you have any questions about anything, please send an email to
>me, Perry Shafran, at perry.shafran@noaa.gov.
>
>Perry Shafran