Recently Updated Grids Service (RUGS)
Elements
The <feed> element
The <author> element
| Element Name |
Description |
| author |
Contains the author of the document
in its child <name> element.
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The <feed> element's <id> element
| Element Name |
Description |
| id |
A unique identifier for this service. For RUGS, this is the
service URL. |
The <logo> element
| Element Name |
Description |
| logo |
An image (see below) depicting the NOAA and NWS logos.
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The <rights> element
| Element Name |
Description |
| rights |
Contains a link to the
NWS web site disclaimer
discussing general issues regarding the data available via RUGS. |
The <feed> element's <title> element
| Element Name |
Description |
| title |
Contains a character string representing a title for the feed.
For RUGS, this is always "Recently Update Grids". |
The <feed> element's <updated> element
| Element Name |
Description |
| updated |
Contains a time string defining when the Atom document was
created. |
The <timePeriodSearched> element
| Element Name |
Description |
| timePeriodSearched |
Contains the time period searched by RUGS for updated GRIB2 files.
Contains the following child elements. Clicking a child element will take
you to a description of the element:
- startTime
- endTime
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The <entry> element
| Element Name |
Description |
| entry |
There can be one or more entry elements. Each entry element
contains the following child elements pretaining to an updated GRIB2 file.
Clicking a child element will take you to a description of the
element:
- content
- id
- summary
- title
- updated
- location
- updatedValidTimes
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The <feed> element's <name> element
| Element Name |
Description |
| name |
A character string representing the name of the feed.
For RUGS, this element always contains "National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Weather Service
(NWS)". |
The <startTime> element
| Element Name |
Description |
| startTime |
Contains a time string representing the data valid time after
which RUGS, if it finds the the data was modified, will return the file as
being recently updated. A start time earlier than the current time is
equivilant to the current time.
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The <endTime> element
| Element Name |
Description |
| endTime |
Contains a time string representing the data valid time before
which RUGS, if it finds the the data was modified, will return the file as
being recently updated.
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The <content> element
| Element Name |
Description |
| content |
Holds the URL, in the "src" attribute, to the recently
updated NDFD GRIB2 file. This is the link a user would use to retrieve the updated
file. |
The <entry> element's <id> element
| Element Name |
Description |
| id |
A unique identifier for this updated GRIB2 file. For RUGS, this is the
URL to the modified file. |
The <summary> element
| Element Name |
Description |
| summary |
Indicates what data (NDFD element, valid time period, and locations)
the URL in the <content> element contains. |
The <entry> element's <title> element
| Element Name |
Description |
| title |
Concise indicator of what data (NDFD element, valid time period,
and locations) the URL in the <content> element contains. |
The <entry> element's <updated> element
| Element Name |
Description |
| updated |
Contains a time string defining when the GRIB2 file, pointed
to in the <content> element, was last updated. |
The <location> element
| Element Name |
Description |
| location |
Holds the sector name for the grid/subgrid applicable to
the URL in the <content> element. |
The <updatedValidTimes> element
| Element Name |
Description |
| updatedValidTimes |
Holds one or more data valid times that were updated in the GRIB2
file pointed to by the URL in the <content> element. Each valid
time is contained in a child <time> element.
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The <time> element
| Element Name |
Description |
| time |
Holds the time string representing the valid time of updated
NDFD data.
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