Hi all,
Information attached below has been provided by the NWS. In essence, this
means that data products with "97" in the WMO heading should not be posted
on your Web sites, due to the data/products being used among NWS sites for
NOAAPort and AWIPS testing purposes. According to the message below,
these data are for "unofficial use" only and we suggest that you exercise
extreme caution when dealing with these data.
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Here is the official note received from the NWS:
The NWS has asked us to distribute the following information.
All NOOAPORT Users:
Per several NOAAPORT Informational messages, our concern is
unofficial products coming from AWIPS sites being picked up from the
SBN and further disseminated through the Internet, possibly, without the
disseminator even knowing, especially if it is the result of an
automated process.
An example of this is the appearance of eroneous FEUS97 products on
a University web page.
The danger here is two fold. One, a user of the data may not realize
its "unofficial" status and two, an invalid or incorrect product may
escape the system and be used by a member of the public.
All of these products are identified in the ii portion of the WMO
heading with "97".
APO is working with PRC to provide a filtering mechanism to eliminate
the majority of these products from the SBN. However, there will
still occasionally be some "97" products sent from test sites which
will appear on the SBN. This is unavoidable and necessary to support
testing activities.
Fred Branski
Senior Data Manager
NOAA/NWS
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Linda Miller
External Liaison Telephone: (303) 497-8646
UCAR/Unidata Program Center Fax: (303) 497-8690
P.O. Box 3000 E-mail: lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Boulder, CO 80307-3000 http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
