"Beginning on 1 May, Data Assimilation Branch, NMC, conducted a 15-day test of the proposed system for archiving conventional and experimental data during the Data Systems Test, The archiving test was completed as planned on 15 May. With NASA approval, operations were extended for an additional 15 days. Our role in this test was to create, on a near real-time basis, Level II and Level III data tapes in standard formats and to mail these tapes to users at GISS, GFDL, NCAR, and UCLA. This test differed from a 3-day archiving test conducted in December in that we used the NOAA computer facilities at Suitland, Maryland, instead of the IBM 360/95 at Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), New York. The NOAA system is the one we plan to use during the DST"--Introduction.

National Weather Service (NWS)

United States