Agenda• Organization• Recent Fielded Functionality

(OB3/OB4)– SCAN– DMD

• Soon to be Fielded Functionality (OB5/OB6)– Tools & Service Back-up

• Future Developments (OB7+)– Plenty of Goodies

SCAN OrganizationSCAN

SCAN FFMPSAFESEAS FOGMON

DMD

Time of Arrival /Lead Time Tool

FFFG

Rapid UpdateDisplay AutoNowcaster GuardianFSI

Recent, FieldedFunctionality

Absolute Absolute AlarmsAlarms

• User-defined Thresholds

• Issues Alarm in standard way

• Can easily be turned off

• (A “No-Alarms” config file is available on the SCAN web page)

OB3OB3

Recent, FieldedFunctionality

Unwarned Unwarned CountyCounty

• User-defined Thresholds

• Checks warnings stored in the textdb

• Changes County background color in the SCAN Storm Cell Table

OB3OB3

Recent, FieldedFunctionality

Digital Meso Digital Meso Detection Detection (DMD)(DMD)

• Look-and-feel of Storm Cell Table (Table, Trends, Display icons)

• Time-Height Trends!

• Rapid Update (every elevation scan)

OB4OB4

Soon to be FieldedFunctionality

Time of Arrival/ Time of Arrival/ Lead TimeLead Time

• Tool much like Speed/Distance

• Point, Line, and Poly-line modes, and circular front

• Local and Z time

OB6OB6

Soon to be FieldedFunctionality

Hail DiagnosticsHail Diagnostics• VIL Density• 1 and 4 km

resolutions• Enhanced 1km

VIL Density that dilates echo tops

OB6OB6

Soon to be FieldedFunctionality

Marcotte Marcotte EnhancementEnhancement

• View multiple attributes at once– Diameter ellipse– Elevation Angle

line– Volume Scan

pole

OB6.XOB6.X

Soon to be FieldedFunctionality

• Service Backup (OB5)– Text file definition in conjunction with SBN

radar product receipt (CZ, Z, VIL)• Use of MDA (OB6)

– Mesocyclone Detection Algorithm (MDA) output from ORPG used in place of old Meso algorithm

• Meso tracking now possible (like storm cells)• A Note on SCAN Performance

– SCAN performance has been noted as an issue in the past

– Officially, SCAN’s performance is no longer significant enough to be tracked by OOS.

Future Developments

4D Storm 4D Storm Investigator Investigator ((FSIFSI))

• Like WDSSII display• 3D single-radar• Eventually, multi-

radar• Independent

process, but launched from the SCAN Storm Cell Table

• Greg Stumpf will Present

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Future Developments

Auto Nowcaster Auto Nowcaster ((ANCANC))

• Provides short-term reflectivity forecast (among other things)

• Currently requires human boundary QC for good performance

• Tom Saxen will Present

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GOES Sounder-Based Products for Automated Monitoring of the Pre-Convective Storm

Environment A joint project between MDL/NWS and NESDIS

• Monitor the location of maximum instability and moisture axes prior to the development of thunderstorms

• Monitor the temporal changes in stability and moisture environment• Issue an alert to get the forecaster’s attention when the temporal changes in

the stability exceeds some predetermined threshold indicating significant destabilization

Objectives:

Future Developments

GOES Storm Identification and TrackingAn initiative between MDL/NWS and NOAA-CREST (Cooperative Remote

Sensing Science and Technology Center)

Automatic identification, monitoring and tracking of intense convective systems

The detection of rapidly developing convective cells

To enhance the AWIPS thunderstorm product by providing information about significant convective systems from isolated convective cell to Mesoscale Convective Complex. The objectives of the system are twofold:

Objectives:

Future Developments

Future DevelopmentsRapid Update (OB8?)• Rapid Update of SCIT output (similar to the DMD)

– requires modification to the ORPG and a new radar product• Virtual Volumes• Display Re-design

– Better Alarm handling– Cell, Meso, and TVS display and control all-in-one

Additional NSSL Algorithmic Guidance (OB7+)• Enhanced VIL Density• Hail Diagnostics• Hail Swath and Rotation Tracks• Rapid Prototype into AWIPSTime of Arrival / Lead Time Tool Shortcut (OB7,8)• Provide attribute (storm cell ID, meso ID, etc)• No need to construct path in the D2D

Future Developments

GuardianGuardian• Communicator from

software to User• Extremely flexible

(Pop-up control)• Task-based default• Out of the box

operation• Potential aid to

Situational Awareness

• Currently being Alpha Tested at 5 WFOs

• Eventually will replace fxaAnnounce

OB7?OB7?