Help and Information

Help Desk

• Submit a help desk ticket: ncep.pmb.dataflow@noaa.gov
• Ask a science question: walter.kolczynski@noaa.gov

Subscription E-Mail Lists

• Subscribe to NOMADS user group mailing list
• Subscribe to NOMADS data servers announcements mailing list

Data and Products

• Archive of Model Data: www.ncei.noaa.gov/data
• NCDC Data Access: www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access
• NCEP Products Inventory: www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/products
• Terms of Data Usage: www.weather.gov/disclaimer

NCEP Central Operations

• NCO Home: www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov
• NWS Service Change Notifications: www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/changes/

GRIB

• NOMADS Grib Filter Help
• Fast downloading of NOMADS Grib2 Files
• Reading GRIB Files
• About WGRIB2
• How to write scripts to use Grib Filter to download subsets of NCEP data

GrADS Data Server

• GrADS Data Server
• GrADS User's Guide
• GrADS Administrator's Guide
• GrADS Configuration File Reference

NOMADS Servers

NOAA operates three different NOMADS Servers that host NCEP Model Products

1. A near-real-time server supported by NCEI is available at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/nomads. This server provides
   • access to a subset of NCEP's operational data set (as distributed on NOAAPort) shortly after distribution
   • a long-term archive for all data sets (www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access)
2. A real-time server supported 24x7 by NCEP is available at http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/. This server provides
   • access to NCEP's operational data sets as they are being generated
   • a short-term archive of up to a month for most data sets
   • 24x7 operational monitoring by NCEP staff
   • a geographically-diverse backup server to insure operational availability
     
     
3. NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory has select Climate Model (CM.x) output for access at:
   • http://nomads.gfdl.noaa.gov/CM2.X/
   • http://nomads.gfdl.noaa.gov

Related Centers

• EMC:    Environmental Modeling Center
• NCEP:   National Centers for Environmental Prediction, part of NWS
• NWS:    National Weather Service, part of the Department of Commerce