Weaver, Motta, Zehr

B. Motta worked with a mentor in the NCAR Autonowcaster group.  Information was obtained on the processing/algorithms that are used to process the Doppler radar data to generate the autonowcasts.  These will be used as part of SCAN by the NWS in AWIPS.  Possible applications and current efforts involving GOES satellite data and Rapid Scan Operations imagery were also discussed.

Interaction continues with Hurricane Research Division (HRD) at AOML on use of Tropical RAMSDIS and collaborative research projects.

M. DeMaria and D. Molenar met with C. Matsumoto, Deputy Director of CIRA, and two programmers at the Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL) in Boulder to discuss possible interactions in the development of applications for the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS). The FSL personnel are extremely busy with the next few builds and will probably have little time for interaction in the next few months. They agreed to provide lists of available on-line documentation to aid in the establishment of the AWIPS at CIRA. They suggested that we continue to learn about the system in the next few months, but wait until Build 5, which is scheduled to be delivered late this year, before beginning application development. Build 5 should have extended capabilities for the development of user applications.