monsoondata

[Jennifer Adams]

On Feb 5, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Arlindo da Silva wrote:

> On Feb 5, 2008 7:36 AM, Jennifer Adams <jma at cola.iges.org> wrote:
>
> On Feb 5, 2008, at 1:45 AM, Jean Pierre Arabonis wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>    Seems monsoondata gfs is not updating seems to be stuck at:
>> http://www.monsoondata.org:9090/dods/gfs/
> This directory contains grib1 data, which is no longer being
> distributed by NCEP. It's time to switch your operations to
>       http://www.monsoondata.org:9090/dods/gfs2/
> which *is* being updated in real time and contains GFS data at 0.5-
> degree resolution.
>
>
> This is a great site! A small feature request: would it be possible
> for you guys to include files
>
> gfs.latest
> gfs.latestb
> gfs.latesti
>
> which point to (or is a copy of) the latest forecast. This would
> save people the trouble  of having to write discovery scripts.

We don't use links to 'latest'  in the dataset names because the
underlying data could change while a user is accessing the file; this
would cause errors that would not be detected by the client.
Jennifer
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