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<br><div><div>On Feb 5, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Arlindo da Silva wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 5, 2008 7:36 AM, Jennifer Adams <<a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div style=""><br><div><div class="Ih2E3d"><div>On Feb 5, 2008, at 1:45 AM, Jean Pierre Arabonis wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: 0px;">Hi</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span> </span>Seems monsoondata gfs is not updating seems to be stuck at:</div> <div style="margin: 0px;"><a href="http://www.monsoondata.org:9090/dods/gfs/" target="_blank">http://www.monsoondata.org:9090/dods/gfs/</a></div></blockquote></div>This directory contains grib1 data, which is no longer being distributed by NCEP. It's time to switch your operations to</div> <div> <a href="http://www.monsoondata.org:9090/dods/gfs2/" target="_blank">http://www.monsoondata.org:9090/dods/gfs2/</a></div><div>which *is* being updated in real time and contains GFS data at 0.5-degree resolution. </div> <br></div></blockquote></div><br>This is a great site! A small feature request: would it be possible for you guys to include files <br><br>gfs.latest<br>gfs.latestb<br>gfs.latesti<br><br>which point to (or is a copy of) the latest forecast. This would save people the trouble of having to write discovery scripts.</blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div>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. <div>Jennifer</div></body></html>