1. Leveraging Multiple FAA Radars For NWS Operations
 89th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society
Hurricane Ike approaching Galveston
THOU 00:32 UTC Sept 13, 2008
Tornado NW of Minneapolis
TMSP 21:33 UTC May 25, 2008
Mike Istok, NOAA/NWS/OS&T/SEC
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Session 10B – Radar Applications Part II

2. Leveraging Multiple FAA Radars for NWS Operations
Coauthors:
Anthony Cheek, NWS Headquarters
Andrew D. Stern & Robert E. Saffle, Noblis, Inc.
Brian R. Klein and Ning Shen, Wyle Information Systems
Warren M. Blanchard, Short and Associates
Acknowledgments:
Bill Bumgarner, BAE Systems

3. Elements of the SPG Program

4. Radar Comparison

5. SPG Developmental Timeline

6. TDWR SPG Deployment

7. TDWR SPG Build 3.0 Products

8. Enhanced Tropical Cyclone Coverage
Tropical Storm Fay

9. SPG Data within AWIPS Storm Relative Motion (SRM)
Product showing the TVS associated with the Wellington, FL Tornado

10. ARSR-4 Locations
Makah (FQKW)
Watford City (FQWA)

11. Enhanced Coverage in the Northwest

12. ASR-11 Locations
Erie (EERI)

13. Erie ASR-11 (EERI)

14. Next Generation RIDGE

15. SPG Future Plans TDWR ARSR-4 ASR-11 Canadian Radars
Archive Level III products available on RIDGE
Discussing Level 2 distribution (SPG Build 4)
Monitor TDWR RDA Rehost activities
ARSR-4
Evaluate products at Seattle and Bismarck
Conduct study for additional deployment
ASR-11
Evaluate products at Cleveland
Canadian Radars
Possible SPG prototype development

16. For Additional Information
Michael Istok
National Weather Service Headquarters Systems Engineering Center, Silver Spring, MD
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