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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 Organization. Recent, Fielded Functionality. OB3. Absolute Alarms User-defined Thresholds

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  1. 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

  2. SCAN Organization

  3. Recent, FieldedFunctionality OB3 Absolute Alarms • 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)

  4. Recent, FieldedFunctionality OB3 Unwarned County • User-defined Thresholds • Checks warnings stored in the textdb • Changes County background color in the SCAN Storm Cell Table

  5. Recent, FieldedFunctionality OB4 Digital Meso Detection (DMD) • Look-and-feel of Storm Cell Table (Table, Trends, Display icons) • Time-Height Trends! • Rapid Update (every elevation scan)

  6. Soon to be FieldedFunctionality OB6 Time of Arrival/ Lead Time • Tool much like Speed/Distance • Point, Line, and Poly-line modes, and circular front • Local and Z time

  7. Soon to be FieldedFunctionality OB6 Hail Diagnostics • VIL Density • 1 and 4 km resolutions • Enhanced 1km VIL Density that dilates echo tops

  8. Soon to be FieldedFunctionality OB6.X Marcotte Enhancement • View multiple attributes at once • Diameter ellipse • Elevation Angle line • Volume Scan pole

  9. 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.

  10. Future Developments OB7,8 - test 4D Storm Investigator (FSI) • Like WDSSII display • 3D single-radar • Eventually, multi-radar • Independent process, but launched from the SCAN Storm Cell Table • Greg Stumpf will Present

  11. Future Developments OB7 - test Auto Nowcaster (ANC) • Provides short-term reflectivity forecast (among other things) • Currently requires human boundary QC for good performance • Tom Saxen will Present

  12. GOES Sounder-Based Products for Automated Monitoring of the Pre-Convective Storm EnvironmentA joint project between MDL/NWS and NESDIS Future Developments • 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:

  13. GOES Storm Identification and TrackingAn initiative between MDL/NWS and NOAA-CREST (Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center) Future Developments • Automatic identification, monitoring and tracking of intense convective systems • The detection of rapidly developing convective cells Objectives: 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:

  14. Future Developments Rapid 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 AWIPS Time of Arrival / Lead Time Tool Shortcut (OB7,8) • Provide attribute (storm cell ID, meso ID, etc) • No need to construct path in the D2D

  15. Future Developments OB7? Guardian • 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

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