<div dir="ltr"><div>MRMS Users,</div><div><br></div><div>Today's scheduled upgrade of MRMS to version 11.6.1 is postponed due to troubleshooting efforts with the IRIS/iNWS site in Boulder. Once that service is stable the new date for the MRMS upgrade will be announced. We expect that the upgrade will still occur this week. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Justin <br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 3:13 PM Justin Cooke - NOAA Federal <<a href="mailto:justin.cooke@noaa.gov">justin.cooke@noaa.gov</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">MRMS users,<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="m_-5109399709943442639gmail-m_-1429623897522008458m_-3787732364238194614gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div><div>NCO is officially announcing the re-start of the 30-day evaluation of <span class="m_-5109399709943442639gmail-il">MRMS</span>
11.6.1 beginning Today, Friday October 5th, 2018. NCO asks that you send us any
feedback you have on <span class="m_-5109399709943442639gmail-il">MRMS</span> 11.6.1 to Anwar Al-Mallah (<a href="mailto:anwar.al-mallah@noaa.gov" target="_blank">anwar.al-mallah@noaa.gov</a>) no later than COB October 29, 2018. Please include in the subject line: "<span class="m_-5109399709943442639gmail-il">MRMS</span> 11.6.1 30 Day Feedback".</div><div><br></div><div>The upgrade is scheduled for Wednesday, November 7th, 2018. <br></div><div> <br></div><div><div><div>The technical enhancements include the following: </div><div><br></div><div> -
The AutoNowCaster (ANC) product resolution will be increased from 0.05 x
0.05 degrees (~5km) to 0.01 x 0.01 degrees (~1km). Users should expect
the ANC file sizes to increase by an order of magnitude. Product timing,
filenames, domain bounds and access methods will remain unchanged. File
patterns like: </div><div> MRMS_ANC_FinalForecast</div><div> MRMS_ANC_ConvectiveLikelihood</div><div> </div><div> -
Modifying color maps used by RDIGE2 to remove the differentiation
between “no coverage” versus missing values. This product is only
available on <span class="m_-5109399709943442639gmail-il">MRMS</span> LDM. </div><div><br></div><div> -
Update the FLASH GRIB2 internal compression from “complex packing” to
“PNG” which reduces the volume by 50%. Currently this data is available
on LDM only, with this upgrade the data will be available on both
SBN/NOAAPORT and the Web. </div><div><br></div><div> - Begin disseminating Flooded Locations and Simulated Hydrographs (FLASH) GRIB2 Products on the SBN/NOAAPORT</div></div><br></div><div>Also attached are the release notes for version 11.6.1</div><div><br></div><div>Users can access sample v11.6.1 data using the below sites:</div><div><br></div><div><b>LDM: </b>MRMS test data will be available via from this address: <a href="http://vm-bldr-mrms-ldmoutt.ncep.noaa.gov" target="_blank">vm-bldr-mrms-ldmoutt.ncep.noaa.gov</a><br></div><div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">If you would like to aid in validation of MRMS v11.6.1 Please contact the IDP team to get put in the allow list for ldm.</li><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><a href="mailto:idp-support@noaa.gov" target="_blank">idp-support@noaa.gov</a></li></ul></ul></div><div><b>MRMS Web data</b>: GRIB2 data from MRMS 11.6.1 BLDR TEST will be available on the <span class="m_-5109399709943442639gmail-m_-1429623897522008458m_-3787732364238194614gmail-il">mrmst</span> website:<br></div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><a href="http://mrmst.ncep.noaa.gov/data/" target="_blank">http://<span class="m_-5109399709943442639gmail-m_-1429623897522008458m_-3787732364238194614gmail-il">mrmst</span>.<span class="m_-5109399709943442639gmail-m_-1429623897522008458m_-3787732364238194614gmail-il">ncep</span>.<span class="m_-5109399709943442639gmail-m_-1429623897522008458m_-3787732364238194614gmail-il">noaa</span>.<span class="m_-5109399709943442639gmail-m_-1429623897522008458m_-3787732364238194614gmail-il">gov</span>/data/</a> <br></li></ul><div><br></div><div>A Service Change Notice (SCN) of this upgrade can be found on the NWS Service Changes Notices page: <a href="https://www.weather.gov/notification/" target="_blank">https://www.weather.gov/notification/</a><br></div></div><div><br></div>Justin Cooke</div><div>NCEP Central Operations</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div>
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