RTOFS West is not West

[kthyng]

This has been the same since I've been looking at these models in the past few months but maybe you at NOAA know who to ask to fix it. One of the "RTOFS-west" model files always points to RTOFS east instead. You can see this by looking at the longitudes for:

west: https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/dods/rtofs/rtofs_global20220321/rtofs_glo_3dz_forecast_6hrly_us_west.das:

    lon {
        String grads_dim "x";
        String grads_mapping "linear";
        String grads_size "700";
        String units "degrees_east";
        String long_name "longitude";
        Float64 minimum -100.00000000000;
        Float64 maximum -39.88600000000;
        Float32 resolution 0.086;
    }

east: https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/dods/rtofs/rtofs_global20220321/rtofs_glo_3dz_forecast_6hrly_us_east.das:

    lon {
        String grads_dim "x";
        String grads_mapping "linear";
        String grads_size "700";
        String units "degrees_east";
        String long_name "longitude";
        Float64 minimum -100.00000000000;
        Float64 maximum -39.88600000000;
        Float32 resolution 0.086;
    }

I kept hoping someone would notice and fix it but I guess no one uses this model output!

[AmyMacFadyen]

Hmm, its only for the forecast -- the nowcast looks ok. I have a contact I will try.

[AmyMacFadyen]

"They" (RTOFS contact) has confirmed the issue on their end and are looking to address it. Will close this when I get confirmation.