Script for real-time demo at 2006 AMDAR Technical Conference

1. Open AMDAR page

2. Note the FAQ page

3. Note Tutorials

Training disk available from Rich Mamrosh

4. Interactive forums

ESRL/GSD forum

TAMDAR forum

Can subscribe to these to receive emails. (not much traffic)

5. Meeting presentations. Mostly TAMDAR meetings, but a recent meeting of the U.S. MDCRS Management Team is included. Interesting reading for an inside look at the U.S. MDCRS (AMDAR) program

6. Error statistics (discussed yesterday). Only covers the Contiguous U.S. and parts of Canada and Mexico (the RUC domain).

7. NWS forecast discussions – useful mostly in U.S. to help determine how the data are used. These have been mined by NWS and other authors in several presentations.

8. Sounding statistics – shows when and where AMDAR soundings occur world-wide. Show Auckland NZ (AKL)

This has also been useful in investigating where data might be usefully thinned. But doesn’t show POTENTIAL soundings from an expanded fleet, and isn’t broken down by carrier.

9. Selected reports and studies. Not complete any more, but a grab-bag of papers we’ve thought are particularly useful.

10. Demo displays – good for airlines who are considering coming on board

12. Full display, restricted

13. Open java display

14. Load 24 h of data (22-23 Sep has a great jet stream over US)

15. Show world

16. Show select window.

  • select good W & T Note counts below the plot (mostly leaves out EDR-only obs which don’t include W & T)
  • Show ALL
  • Select E-AMDAR, AMDAR, MDCRS, Canadian, TAMDAR
  • Other categories are mostly for internal consistency checking
  • Show ALL
  • Go to US
  • Select sensor types: EDR, Vapor, DEVG, Icing
  • Note EDR data can’t be seen by airlines not providing EDR data

17. Show Barbs and Wind speed

18. Limit by altitude

19. Zoom into Miami

20. Load latest 3 h

21. Add overlays: Airports, RAOBs, etc

22. Show a U.S. Sounding, eg Miami

  • Note its a tephigram and a SkewT
  • Note can toggle hodograph
  • Can zoom in
  • Mileage marker

23. Note ‘load other soundings’

24. Add a dev2

  • Can force a particular fcst projection
  • Can overlay soundings

25. Note recently:

  • we keep 60 days of model soundings for dev and dev2 at airports only (don’t keep full files ‘cuz they’re so big)
  • We keep dev and dev2 soundings at RAOB sites forever

26. Send up a parcel.

27. We’ll see many examples of how soundings are used