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Last Updated by:
Dan Bikos
October 20, 2000

A.) The interactive VISITview training session. (To be used with a VISIT instructor leading the session ). Click here to signup for teletraining. The session will last 90 minutes. This teletraining session uses the VISITview software, where Windows PC (with 64 MB RAM or greater) with an Internet connection is needed.

B.) Web-based training session - a "stand alone" version viewed via a Web browser, with embedded talking points included. This lesson version may be viewed at any time. These slides are ideal for printing from the web-browser, just print preview first to choose portrait or landscape mode. Best viewed with Internet Explorer or Netscape (prior to version 6).

C.) Web-based Visitview session - This version uses the VISITview software within a Web browser, may be viewed at any time. It retains all the functionality of the VISITview software which you see in a "live" teletraining session. The talking points are not included in this lesson version, but can be viewed in a separate Web browser (or printed out beforehand).

D.) local Visitview session - This is the same version of the lesson used in a "live" VISITview teletraining session, but no connection is made to an external VISITview server. You may download the file off this page and go through the lesson on your own in "local mode" by starting the "visitlocal.bat" file. Talking points are not included in this lesson version, but can be viewed in a separate Web browser ( or printed out beforehand).

WSR-88D Operational Support Facility

• Warning Decision Making Workshop #1
  
  
• Warning Decision Making Workshop #2
  
  

Texas A&M:Department of Atmospheric Sciences' The Cooperative Institute for Applied Meteorological Studies

• Examples/Diagnosis of Three-body Scattering by Hail in Radar Imagery
  

National Weather Service Central Region Headquarters

• An Example and Diagnosis of Three-body Scattering by Hail in WSR-88D Imagery
  

National Weather Service LaCrosse, WI

• The AWIPS 4.3.1 Volume Browser Localization Page
  
  
The Corfidi Method reference:


"Predicting the movement of mesoscale convective complexes" Corfidi, S. F., Merritt, J. H., Fritsch, J. M Weather and Forecasting, Boston, MA, 11(1): 41-46, March 1996.


Reference on normalized CAPE:


"Assessing the Vertical Distribution of Convective Available Potential Energy" Blanchard, David O., Weather and Forecasting, 13(3): 870-877, September 1998.


Reference by Thompson on storm-relative winds associated with tornadoes:


Thompson, R.L., Weather and Forecasting, March 1998: Eta Model Storm-relative Winds Associated with Tornadic and Nontornadic Supercells.

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