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

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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.