| RAMMB CIRA 4th Quarter Report |
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July August September 2008 |
Hiro Gosden modified the GUI menu further on the AWIPS system and re-organized the customized CIRA menu. Two more product buttons were added to the CIRA menu, and two previous products were combined into one product. (H. Gosden)
Hiro Gosden successfully modified the color table for the “True Color” product that will be added to the AWIPS for the proving ground project. (H. Gosden)
Hiro Gosden is working to port the older Sounder RAMSDIS system onto a Linux box that will run its processes in the background. The front end work to produce the product has been successfully ported over, and the work in displaying this dataset online is underway. (H. Gosden)
All systems procured under IT Refresh have been configured. (D. Molenar)
A new RAMMB/CIRA AWIPS NOAAPORT server has been procured. (D. Molenar)
A group met to discuss various options for setting up a polar data server at CIRA. RAMMB has plans to begin pulling MIRS, IASI, SSMI and ATOVS data to support hurricane research, and to support a polar data server at CIRA. Data pulls from DDS (specifically Andy Jones and Stan Kidder’s AMSU ingest) will be coordinated to avoid duplicate ingest efforts. Whenever possible, the existing functionality from the AMSU and DPEAS system will be utilized. A centralized, near-realtime polar data server, with http, ftp, McIDAS server and LDM (for AWIPS feeds) access, and automated data subset archive, will be highly beneficial to research at CIRA. This data will also be a valuable resource for blended product development, Satellite Algorithm Testbed work, and for AWIPS Proving Ground product evaluation. The eventual goal will be to provide a robust server, RAID storage (with fail-safe backup) and a set of access routines that would be available to all CIRA and NOAA researchers and clients. Phase I will involve the set up of a RAMMB server and RAID array to create the DDS MIRS, IASI, SSMI and ATOVS data archive. Don’t forget NPP. (D. Molenar, J. Knaff, D. Watson, J. Forsythe, A. Jones, S. Kidder)