1. C. Bruce Entwistle Science and Operations Officer Aviation Weather Center Kansas City, MO Bruce.Entwistle@noaa.gov C. Bruce Entwistle Science and Operations Officer Aviation Weather Center Kansas City, MO Bruce.Entwistle@noaa.gov @dds Aviation Digital Display Service

2. 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, 2009@dds – NOAA System of Systems Workshop

3. ADDS Content METARsTAFsPIREPsAIRMETs, SIGMETsSatellite, radarChartsWind and tempsNCWFCIPFIPGTGFlight Path Tool 3October 7, 2009@dds – NOAA System of Systems Workshop

4. ADDS’ Users 4October 7, 2009@dds – NOAA System of Systems Workshop PilotsDispatchersFSS BriefersMeteorologists

5. Usage 5October 7, 2009@dds – NOAA System of Systems Workshop

6. Usage 6October 7, 2009@dds – NOAA System of Systems Workshop

7. ADDS Interfaces  PHP creates page  Static displays  MySQL  User makes request and gets display  Java tools allow interaction and customization 7October 7, 2009@dds – NOAA System of Systems Workshop

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9. ADDS Components Text Image locations (on fileserver) Image metadata Location metadata MySQL cluster database contents php RHEL5 Java MySQL server environment 9October 7, 2009@dds – NOAA System of Systems Workshop

10. 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, 2009@dds – NOAA System of Systems Workshop

11. 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, 2009@dds – NOAA System of Systems Workshop