C. Bruce Entwistle Science and Operations Officer Aviation Weather Center Kansas City, MO C. Bruce Entwistle Science and Operations Officer Aviation Weather Center Kansas City, Aviation Digital Display Service

What is ADDS?  Web site for the aviation community (adds.aviationweather.gov) adds.aviationweather.gov  Forecasts, analyses, and observations  Text, digital, and graphical formats  Operational since 2003  Operated by NWS NCEP AWC in Kansas City  Joint effort with NCAR RAL and ESRL GSD 2October 7, – NOAA System of Systems Workshop

ADDS Content METARsTAFsPIREPsAIRMETs, SIGMETsSatellite, radarChartsWind and tempsNCWFCIPFIPGTGFlight Path Tool 3October 7, – NOAA System of Systems Workshop

ADDS’ Users 4October 7, – NOAA System of Systems Workshop PilotsDispatchersFSS BriefersMeteorologists

Usage 5October 7, – NOAA System of Systems Workshop

Usage 6October 7, – NOAA System of Systems Workshop

ADDS Interfaces  PHP creates page  Static displays  MySQL  User makes request and gets display  Java tools allow interaction and customization 7October 7, – NOAA System of Systems Workshop

October 7, – NOAA System of Systems Workshop

ADDS Components Text Image locations (on fileserver) Image metadata Location metadata MySQL cluster database contents php RHEL5 Java MySQL server environment 9October 7, – NOAA System of Systems Workshop

ADDS Components MDV is NCAR’s gridded data format Static data – no refresh to web page (yet) NCAR MDV TomcatWEBGEN – Web page generatorWEBIMG – Web image generator 10October 7, – NOAA System of Systems Workshop

On the Horizon  Due in 2010, MDV server provides dynamically updated data for Flight Path Tool  HEMS tool and Flight Path Tool convergence  XML data server  FAA funds NCAR for ADDS changes See experimental ADDS (weather.aero) weather.aero 11October 7, – NOAA System of Systems Workshop