What is the Real-Time NWP NOMADS Server?
The NCEP Real-time NOMADS (RT-NOMADS) prototype project serves real time operational data only. NCDC is the operational archive focal point and project leader for NOMADS and holds data sets older than real time. The NCEP RT-NOMADS server sends NCDC data for archival. The NCDC NOMADS goal is to save model (run history) data but budget realities provide that the archives can save initial conditions and observations sufficient to restart NCEP models to reconstruct model run history. A NOMADS goal at NCDC is to add to this archive, the NCEP operational run history forecasts as soon as sufficient storage is funded. Other NOMADS participants serve their own data sets.The NOMADS participant data sets will be connected by various search engines now under development at UCAR (THREDDS), NCAR, and NASA.The RT-NOMADS project is a prototype with the goal to produce an Operational Specification which if built is planned to be located in the operational data distribution component of NWS.
