Hi Jack,

The recent WFO MAF stations were added to the spreadsheet, but Google doesn't necessarily append new stations to the end of the spreadsheet.  If you search for the stations in question, you should find them.

Thanks,
Matt

On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 2:05 PM VLab Notifications <VLab.Notifications@noaa.gov> wrote:

Hey Matt,

Thanks for the responses.

1) I was just confused by seeing the trailing .wexp extension on some of those file names, which then caused some software to not list them in a directory view, hence my wondering if the names could be made to all have .grb extensions.  Thanks for the details.

2) I was perusing the Sheet to see if the recent WFO MAF stations that were blacklisted in some regard were in the Sheet, and when I didn't see them, wondered.  

If everything is working as desired, and understood by those close to the topic at hand, great. 

On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 12:41 PM VLab Notifications <VLab.Notifications@noaa.gov> wrote:

Hi Jack,
 
When compared to the true CONUS NDFD grid, the "wexp" grid contains 220 additional rows at the northern boundary and 200 additional columns at the western boundary.  These extensions were made at the request of the Northwest River Forecast Center and Ocean Prediction Center, respectively.  For simplicity and owing to space constraints, only the "wexp" grid is output on the NOMADS website.  Note: All output files on the NOMADS page are on the "wexp" grid, including those that do not explicitly list "wexp" in the file name (e.g., urma2p5.2021112200.pcp_01h.mask.grb2).

The spreadsheet is updated automatically each time the RTMA/URMA station QC form is filled out, and subsequently updated manually to indicate the time the stations are flagged.
 
Please let us know if you have any other questions.
 
Thanks,
Matt

On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 5:16 PM VLab Notifications <VLab.Notifications@noaa.gov> wrote:

1) I noticed in trying to view URMA2.5 datasets, that in directories like these:

https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/urma/prod/urma2p5.20211122/

some of the file names appear to end in a ".wexp" extension, vs the ".grb" extension.  

Can that be remedied, if that is an incorrect naming?

2) Is this spreadsheet still maintained with regards to which stations have been identified by WFOs to need to be blacklisted?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wAxsHiSFQuaDYbvaNHRwfi1-CiYRZ3CWsQG6z09C0mM/edit#gid=14536404

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