AVIATION WEATHER TESTBED UPDATE

Amanda Terborg

PG All-Hands call

July 13th, 2015

AWC PG - evaluations

Demonstration notes: No midterm report completed due to time constraints In full planning for SE2015 (August 10-22)

AWS convection Ceiling and Visibility via A2 D2D & GFE Tropical FA replacement exploration

Preliminary feedback Cloud altitudes Nearcast GOES-R CI PGLM 1-minute imagery Icing A few others…

AWC PG – feedback…

Cloud altitudes Identify only convective cloud tops Identify cloud bases better for C&V

Nearcast Used often for CAWS to identify potential behavior of

convection Works well for non-severe convection as well

GOES-R CI Used often by the NAMs, one of the ‘vital’ things for CAWS

survival PGLM

Anticipating gridded version of the PGLM 1-minute imagery

Majority still indicating 5-minute imagery as more useful, but CSIG utilizes 1-minute often for convection

1-minute also utilized in some cases for C&V

AWC PG – feedback…

Icing Bases and tops are more useful than the index Need something for ICI

GeoColor Began pulling wider domain this spring Still used fairly frequently with the FLS Used quite often on the AWC’s ‘situation board’ on the ops

floor Volcanic Ash

Starting to use volcano website designed by SSEC Really like the four-panel images provided there Used by the tropical desk, but also global folks

Dust Dust enhancement now in ops and has been used in a number

of dust storm cases this spring along with the sounder version

AWC PG – GOES-R ground readiness

GRB Antenna install after July 31st (flexible) Currently working on electrical upgrades at the

AWC to accommodate the new systems Anticipate complete installation by the end of

the year, followed by training PDA

Successful manual connection to CBU/NSOF Anticipate automatic pull testing in the near

future On the short list to possibly be included in QST

testing in late summer – early fall of 2015

AWC PG – Himawari ground readiness

Data ingest Currently testing McIDAS 2015.1 and the

Himawari HSD to AREA conversion Eventual conversion from netcdf4 to AREA?

Preparing code to ingest Himawari into AWC global mosaics

Dataflow testing using HSD data… Forecaster thoughts

Current mosaic Other capabilities…

AWC PG - AWIPS-2

Working with Monica & Co. on the NCP sat project Have successfully ingested and displayed most non-

SBN data to NCP on test and ops systems Some not displaying all the time due a bug in ingesting

images with the same navigations. Should be fixed soon… Working on getting these into D2D as well

Will be working towards D2D ingest and display for the 2015 Summer Experiment No functioning LDAD on the test systems, so will be

using non-SBN for all data ingest Slightly difficult given non-SBN process McIDAS

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