1. AVIATION WEATHER TESTBED UPDATE Amanda Terborg PG All-Hands call July 13 th, 2015

2. AWC PG - evaluations  Demonstration notes:  No midterm report completed due to time constraints  In full planning for SE2015 (August 10-22) AWS convection Ceiling and Visibility via A2 D2D & GFE Tropical FA replacement exploration  Preliminary feedback  Cloud altitudes  Nearcast  GOES-R CI  PGLM  1-minute imagery  Icing  A few others…

3. AWC PG – feedback…  Cloud altitudes  Identify only convective cloud tops  Identify cloud bases better for C&V  Nearcast  Used often for CAWS to identify potential behavior of convection  Works well for non-severe convection as well  GOES-R CI  Used often by the NAMs, one of the ‘vital’ things for CAWS survival  PGLM  Anticipating gridded version of the PGLM  1-minute imagery  Majority still indicating 5-minute imagery as more useful, but CSIG utilizes 1-minute often for convection  1-minute also utilized in some cases for C&V

4. AWC PG – feedback…  Icing  Bases and tops are more useful than the index  Need something for ICI  GeoColor  Began pulling wider domain this spring  Still used fairly frequently with the FLS  Used quite often on the AWC’s ‘situation board’ on the ops floor  Volcanic Ash  Starting to use volcano website designed by SSEC  Really like the four-panel images provided there  Used by the tropical desk, but also global folks  Dust  Dust enhancement now in ops and has been used in a number of dust storm cases this spring along with the sounder version

5. AWC PG – GOES-R ground readiness  GRB  Antenna install after July 31 st (flexible)  Currently working on electrical upgrades at the AWC to accommodate the new systems  Anticipate complete installation by the end of the year, followed by training  PDA  Successful manual connection to CBU/NSOF  Anticipate automatic pull testing in the near future  On the short list to possibly be included in QST testing in late summer – early fall of 2015

6. AWC PG – Himawari ground readiness  Data ingest  Currently testing McIDAS 2015.1 and the Himawari HSD to AREA conversion Eventual conversion from netcdf4 to AREA?  Preparing code to ingest Himawari into AWC global mosaics  Dataflow testing using HSD data…  Forecaster thoughts  Current mosaic  Other capabilities…

7. AWC PG - AWIPS-2  Working with Monica & Co. on the NCP sat project  Have successfully ingested and displayed most non-SBN data to NCP on test and ops systems Some not displaying all the time due a bug in ingesting images with the same navigations. Should be fixed soon…  Working on getting these into D2D as well  Will be working towards D2D ingest and display for the 2015 Summer Experiment  No functioning LDAD on the test systems, so will be using non-SBN for all data ingest  Slightly difficult given non-SBN process McIDAS default…