We are working on earlier years. Many diagnostic checks are needed to detect and understand problems. These data arrived at NCAR at the rate of about 100 GB of data per month during 1996-1997. Maintain the archives and help users We now have about 500 datasets. We updated many datasets during the year and added some new ones.
Some data flows are very large.
This is a large task. The normal and advanced analysis archives from NCEP operations were routinely updated. The advanced archives started in 1990. Forecasts are included. Most of these sets are now current through September 1997.