lead – wrf how to package for the community? tom baltzer
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LEAD – WRF
How to package for the Community?
Tom Baltzer
Acronyms for LEAD ToolsADAS - ARPS Data Assimilation System (Center for Advanced Prediction of Storms at OU)
ADaM - Algorithm Development and Mining (University of Alabama at Huntsville)
IDV – Integrated Data Viewer (Unidata)
OPeNDAP – Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (OPeNDAP.org)
THREDDS – Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services (Unidata)
WRF – The Weather and Research Forecasting Model (ARW Core - NCAR)
Also: WS-Eta – Workstation Eta Model
Current Configuration
NCEP NAM (Eta) Forecast
PrecipitationLocator
CenterLat/Lon
OPeNDAPAccess
THREDDSCatalog
Unidata LEAD Test Bed
RegionalForecasts
WS-Eta
WRF
Initial and
Boundary
Conditions
- WRF being Steered by Chiz’s GEMPAK precipitation locator
Next Steps
NCEP NAM (Eta) Forecast
PrecipitationLocator
Cen
ter
Lat
/Lo
n
OPeNDAPAccess
THREDDSCatalog
Unidata LEAD Test Bed
RegionalForecasts
WS-Eta
WRF
BoundaryConditions
CAPS ADASAssimilation
Initial
Conditions
MillersvilleADaM Precip
Locator
Ultimately
NCEP NAM (Eta) Forecast
PrecipitationLocator
CenterLat/Lon
OPeNDAPAccess
THREDDSCatalog
Unidata LEAD Test Bed
RegionalForecasts
WS-Eta
WRF
BoundaryConditions
ADAS
IDD Datasets• Radar• Surface & Upper air• Satellite• NCEP NAM
ADaM
When/What to bring to Community?
• Which of these capabilities is worthy of “packaging” for delivery to the Unidata Community?
• What form is most desired?
• Is it better to wait for Web Service model?
Note: We’re not suggesting that we’d take over support for WRF, ADAS or ADaM
Additional Info: CAPS ADAS Observations
• 40km ETA/NAM for the background field.
• Hourly SAO's (U.S., Canada, Mexico).
• Oklahoma Mesonet.
• West Texas Mesonet.
• Ship/buoy/cman.
• Raob, on raob hours.
• Profiler data.
• Level 2 radar data.
• Level 3 (nids) radar data for missing level 2 radars (mostly military).
• Visible and IR satellite data.
• MDCRS data.
Note that only reflectivity is used from the radars.
Mesowest and Iowa mesonets will be added when I get a chance to fix some decoder problems.