Topic: Termination of Legacy GHE
Date/Time Issued: March 3, 2025 2131Z
Product(s) or Data Impacted: Legacy Global Hydroestimator (GHE)
Date/Time of Initial Impact: March 4, 2025 1600Z
Date/Time of Expected End: Permanent
Length of Event: Permanent
Details/Specifics of Change:
The legacy on-premises version of the Global Hydroestimator (GHE) is being retired. It
is being replaced by the global Enterprise Rain Rate algorithm, which has been running
in the NCCF Cloud environment since Nov. 7, 2024.
PDA distribution of legacy GHE products will stop on March 4, 2025, at 1600Z.
Due to requirements of other legacy products, notably ETRAP, the product itself will
continue, with ADDE /McIDAS distribution, until approximately June.
Please ensure all subscriptions are set to receive the NCCF-based Enterprise Rain
Rate algorithm as detailed in the table below.
This change will not be performed during Critical Weather. The termination will be
postponed to 1600Z on the next, non-Critical Weather Day.
Names for GHE Product in NCCF:
PDA short names and file names:
Products PDA Short
Name
PDA Filename
AWIPS Tailoring for G16/G18
ABI Rainrate
ABI-L2-FLDK-
RRQPE-AWIPS
RRQPEF_v1r1_(g16|g18)_s\d{15}_
e\d{15}_c\d{15}.nc
AWIPS Tailoring for Himawari
AHI Rainrate
AHI-L2-FLDK-
RRQPE-AWIPS
RRQPEF_v1r1_h09_s\d{15}_e\d{1
5}_c\d{15}.nc
G16/G18 ABI Rainrate ABI-L2-FLDK-
RainfallRate
RRQPE-ABI-
INST_v1r1_G16|G18_s\d{15}_e\d{
15}_c\d{15}.nc
G16/G18/H9/Meteosat9/Meteos
at10 composite hourly Rainfall
Rate products
RainRate-Blend-
Hourly
RRQPE-001HR-
GLB_v1r1_blend_s\d{15}_e\d{15}
_c\d{15}.nc
G16/G18/H9/Meteosat9/Meteos
at10 composite 6 hour Rainfall
Rate products
RainRate-Blend-
6Hour
RRQPE-006HR-
GLB_v1r1_blend_s\d{15}_e\d{15}
_c\d{15}.nc
G16/G18/H9/Meteosat9/Meteos
at10 composite 3 hour Rainfall
Rate products
RainRate-Blend-
3Hour
RRQPE-003HR-
GLB_v1r1_blend_s\d{15}_e\d{15}
_c\d{15}.nc
G16/G18/H9/Meteosat9/Meteos
ate10 composite instantaneous
Rainfall Rate products
RainRate-Blend-
INST
RRQPE-INST-GLB-
\d{1}_v1r1_blend_s\d{15}_e\d{15}
_c\d{15}.nc
Himawari AHI Rainrate AHI-L2-FLDK-
RainfallRate
RRQPE-AHI-
INST_v1r1_h09_s\d{15}_e\d{15}_
c\d{15}.nc
Discontinued Products:
Product Short Name prodFileNameRegExp
GHE_Hourly-GRIB2 KNES_\w{2}\.SSD\d{3}130A_dt\.\d{5}1$
GHE_Hourly-netCDF4 NPR.GEO.GHE.v\d{1}\.S\d{12}\.E\d{12}\.nc\.gz$
GHE_Rain_Rate-GRIB2 KNES_\w{2}\.SSD\d{3}130A_dt\.\d{5}0$
GHE_Rain_Rate-netCDF4 NPR.GEO.GHE.v\d{1}\.S\d{12}\.nc\.gz$
GHE_Six-Hour_Total-GRIB2 KNES_\w{2}\.SSD\d{3}130A_dt\.\d{5}6$
GHE_Three-Hour_Total-GRIB2 KNES_\w{2}\.SSD\d{3}130A_dt\.\d{5}3$
GHE_navigation NPR.GEO.GHE.v\d{1}\.Navigation\.nc\.gz$
This notification was sent to ESPC.Notification@noaa.gov mailing list. If you wish to unsubscribe or subscribe to this list, please contact ESPC Help-Desk at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov with your request. Please note: it may take up to two business days to process your request. For any additional information you can reach ESPC at 301-817-3880 (24x7).