1. 2004 Update on AMPS Operations
Kevin W. Manning
Michael G. Duda
Jordan G. Powers

2. Computational Grids

3. Plotting Windows

4. Time Series Locations

5. Time Series List

6. Sounding Locations

7. From 30-km Grid

8. 10-km Grid

9. Old Peninsula Zoom
~200
~910
~1000
1125
~1050

10. New Peninsula Zoom
828
1460
1803
1839
1659

11. New Web Products Cloud Base Altimeter Setting Tabular Time Series
Flight-level Winds/T
Web Updates
Larger Images
More control on Animations

12. Cloud Base

13. Altimeter Setting

14. Tabular Time Series

15. Animations Page

16. 3DVAR now default analysis technique
Objective Analysis
3DVAR now default analysis technique
Currently, shows marginal improvement over traditional MM5 Objective Analysis
Potential for a greater variety of observations to be assimilated
3DVAR better positions us for transition to WRF

17. Numbers 300 min Grid Dimensions (grid points) Projected Area (106 km2)
Forecast Hours
Timestep
(s)
% of total CPU
Wallclock
(min) 1
90-km
110 x 145
127 72
240
3.83 11 2
30-km
220 x 208
40.7 80
33.04 99 3
10-km Ross I.
79 x 94
0.725 30 27
6.71 20 4
10-km
S. Pole
85 x 85
0.706
6.53 5
3.3-km Ross I.
85 x 115
0.106 9
26.46 79 6
Peninsula
172 x 151
2.56
23.44 70
300 min

18. Product Availability Statistics
2002
2003
2004
Jan
62/62
100.0 %
Feb
47/56
83.9 %
Mar
55/62
88.7 %
Apr
48/60
80.0 %
May
60/62
96.8 %
Jun
49/60
81.7 %
Jul
53/62
85.5 %
Aug
58/62
93.6 %
Sep
58/60
96.7 %
Oct
57/62
91.9 %
Nov
57/60
95.0 %
Dec
61/62
98.4 %
2002
665/730
91.1 %
Jan
61/62
98.4 %
Feb
56/56
100.0 %
Mar
59/62
95.2 %
Apr
60/60
May
Jun
Jul
56/62
90.3 %
Aug
57/62
91.9 %
Sep
58/60
96.7 %
Oct
58/62
93.6 %
Nov
Dec
55/62
88.7 %
2003
699/730
95.8 %
Jan
58/62
93.6 %
Feb
54/58
93.1 %
Mar
61/62
98.4 %
Apr
51/60
85.0 %
May
54/62
87.1 %
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
2004
278/304
91.4 %
Total: / %

19. Flow Chart (Much simplified)

20. Flow Chart (Much simplified)