[gradsusr] 13-km RUC fields file naming convention

[Jeffrey Duda]

I'm pretty sure those are forecast hours.  Despite the naming of that
directory, I think forecasts are included along with the analyses (which I
interpret to be the 000 hr forecasts).

Jeff Duda

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:48 PM, June Yeung <jyeung at princeton.edu> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I am trying to download 13-km resolution Rapid Update Cycle (RUC)
> analysis fields from the NOMADS site, but I am a little confused about
> the file naming convention.  For every hour, it seems that there are
> 10-12 files (e.g., ruc2_130_20090808_0000_0##.grb2 where ## ranges from
> 00 to 12).  See this catalog, for instance:
>
> http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog/ruc13/200908/20090808/catalog.html
> I thought 13-km resolution RUC fields are available on an hourly scale?
> Is anyone experienced with these data sets, by chance, and can help me
> to interpret what the last 3 digits represent?   Sorry if this is
> obvious.  I tried to look up the documentation but couldn't find what I
> need.
> Thank you very much,
> June
>
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> Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
> Princeton University
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