From spark@tornado.caps.ou.edu Fri May 28 09:00 CDT 1999 Received: from tornado.caps.ou.edu (tornado.caps.ou.edu [129.15.192.32]) by rossby.metr.ou.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id JAA02850 for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 09:00:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: by tornado.caps.ou.edu (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA20242; Fri, 28 May 1999 08:59:25 -0500 From: spark@tornado.caps.ou.edu (Seon Ki Park) Message-Id: <9905281359.AA20242@tornado.caps.ou.edu> Subject: Forwarded mail... To: spark@rossby.caps.ou.edu Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 08:59:25 +22325614 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 6117 Status: OR Forwarded message: >From kdroege Fri May 28 07:46:25 1999 Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 07:46:11 -0500 From: kdroege (Kelvin Droegemeier) Message-Id: <9905281246.AA30512@tornado.caps.ou.edu> To: all > >Folks: > >On behalf of Louis Uccellini, Director of NCEP, and Steve Lord, Acting >Director of EMC, I am pleased to announce availability of a workstation >version of the Eta Model. Included are codes to facilitate a local >application at high resolution, terrain and other fixed field data sets, >codes to extract initial and lateral boundary conditions from grids >downloaded from the NCEP or OSO servers and a post-processor code which >allows generation of a myriad of gridded output in GRIB. Matt Pyle has >performed the herculean task and, together with those listed in the >acknowledgments, deserves our praise and gratitude. > >PLEASE NOTE our requisite disclaimer: "It should be clear to the user >that the codes and manual are made available in their present form and >status and that NCEP makes no commitment to provide the user with any >kind of further support in their local configuration, testing, >maintenance or upgrading. The codes can be used for research or >experimental forecasting, but cannot be provided to any other individual >or organization without prior authorization by the NCEP. Furthermore, >publications which include results obtained using the NCEP Eta >workstation codes should acknowledge receipt of the codes from NCEP." >and the NWS disclaimer on Use of Data and Products reproduced at the end >of the e-mail. > >Without further ado, her is what Matt Pyle wrote: >--------------------------------------------------- > >An initial workstation version of the Eta is now available (really!) It >has been tested on SGI, HP and IBM workstations (and compilers). While >this doesn't cover all existing platforms, we feel an early release has >more value than the perfectly complete one that comes a decade from now. > >This self-contained modeling package can be downloaded via anonymous FTP >from ftp.ncep.noaa.gov. Once logged in, cd to /pub/gcp/wrkstn_eta and >download the wrkst_package.tar.Z file. One major word of caution >upfront:this rendition of the package REQUIRES a FORTRAN 90 compiler. >A FORTRAN 77 product may be developed in the coming months, but for now >FORTRAN 90 is required! > >Topography files are also located in this directory and must be >downloaded separately. The topography data are stored in latitudinal >strips covering 10 degrees of latitude from 180W to 40W. The file name >indicates the southern latitude of the strip. Files residing in this >directory cover between 10N and 80N. Download the strips that will >cover your expected domain(s). > >Also download a copy of the user's manual, available in beautiful >postscript and .pdf (Adobe Acrobat Reader, freeware downloadable at >http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html) documents, and an >ASCII file as well. These files all have the same information and are >named manual.ps, manual.pdf, and manual.ascii. The manual describes in >some detail how to install and use the package. Much effort was spent >in writing and verifying the accuracy of these instructions; please let >it be your first source of information regarding the workstation >version of the model. > >Uncompress the wrkst_package.tar.Z file, and follow the instructions for >installation and use of the package. > >If you download the package, please send us an e-mail so we can keep a >list of workstation Eta users. There is no sinister motive at work >here; despite the disclaimer above, it will just allow us to more easily >notify you of user meetings, code updates, improvements, problems, etc >that might be made available in the future. >------------------------------------------------------- > >Acknowledgments: > >A reference list included in the manual provides a more thorough list of >individuals responsible for the Eta model's primary development (dating >to the original work on the Eta by Mesinger and Janjic). The following >is intended to acknowledge those who have most directly aided this >current workstation release. The direct predecessor of this release was >received courtesy of John Snook, then of FSL, in the fall of 1998. His >package had integrated codes originally developed by the European >(Yugoslavian/Greek) Eta community and by the Environmental Modeling >Center at NCEP. I've tried to improve them and make them into a >user-friendly package. Recent work has incorporated the latest NCEP >operational codes. Guidance on converting the Cray C-90 code into a >portable workstation code was provided by Michael Baldwin. The work- >station version of the post-processor was made possible by the GRIB >utilities developed by Mark Iredell of NCEP. > >------------------------------------------------------- >NWS disclaimer on the >Use of Data and Products > > The information on government servers are in the public domain, >unless specifically annotated otherwise, and may be used freely by the >public. Before using information obtained from this server special >attention should be given to the date & time of the data and products >being displayed. This information shall not be modified in content and >then presented as official government material. > > The user assumes the entire risk related to its use of this data. >NWS is providing this data "as is," and NWS disclaims any and all >warranties, whether express or implied, including (without limitation) >any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular >purpose. 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