# Presentation: 266173

## The Future of the Weather Event Simulator (WES) and NWS Case Playback and Simulation Capabilities

- Michael Magsig12
- Weather Event Simulator Project Lead
- 1Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS)
- 2also affiliated with NOAA’s Warning Decision Training Branch (WDTB)

## Outline

- WES
- Background
- Future Releases
- WES5.0 (July 2005)
- WES6.0+ (October 2005)
- Integration into AWIPS Baseline

## Components of WES

- WES software
- Essentially a data pump and AWIPS interface
- Developed/maintained by CIMMS/WDTB (not AWIPS) due to unfulfilled Requirements White Papers
- AWIPS Software
- Repackaged from official AWIPS release CDs
- *FSL recompiles some code for WarnGen to work on flat files

- Offline Linux Workstation

- Archived Weather Case and Training

- Linux AWIPS

- WES Software

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**Notes:**
Here is a simplified slide on the components of the Weather Event Simulator. 

You should have received a PC running Linux, a Linux version of AWIPS, at least one case (guides are on the way), and the WES software. 

The WES software is really just a “data pump” . Every minute it searches for new data, and reveals as in real-time, and update active images and loops for certain product types.

Back-pocket notes:
Notification with Radar, Satellite, LAPS, and MSAS
No notification for point data (surface observations, lightning, model data)

## WESSL

- WES Scripting Language
- Trigger non-AWIPS data in a simulation
- Images, video, maps, queries
- Beginning of new learning/evaluation tools

## AWIPS Simulation Functionality in WES

**AWIPS Simulation Functionality in WES**

- Warngen

- D2D: radar, satellite, LAPS, MSAS notifications

- SCAN SCIT Table and DMD

- FFMP

**Notes:**

You should have received a PC running Linux, a Linux version of AWIPS, at least one case (guides are on the way), and the WES software. 

The WES software is really just a “data pump” . Every minute it searches for new data, and reveals as in real-time, and update active images and loops for certain product types.

Back-pocket notes:
Notification with Radar, Satellite, LAPS, and MSAS
No notification for point data (surface observations, lightning, model data)

## WES5.0 Features

- AWIPS OB5
- TDWR, new FSL DMD display, etc

-   *OB5.0 Drawbacks
- FFMP, SCAN, and DMD data all changed format in OB5
- Must recreate all old data sets

**Notes:**

You should have received a PC running Linux, a Linux version of AWIPS, at least one case (guides are on the way), and the WES software. 

The WES software is really just a “data pump” . Every minute it searches for new data, and reveals as in real-time, and update active images and loops for certain product types.

Back-pocket notes:
Notification with Radar, Satellite, LAPS, and MSAS
No notification for point data (surface observations, lightning, model data)

## WES5.0 Features

- WES
- 15 second processing better simulates radar tilts
- “enhanced_case_review” application
- Starts AWIPS decoders needed to enable fully functioning FFMP/SCAN tables in case review mode (no simulation)
- Misc bug fixes and minor improvements

**Notes:**

You should have received a PC running Linux, a Linux version of AWIPS, at least one case (guides are on the way), and the WES software. 

The WES software is really just a “data pump” . Every minute it searches for new data, and reveals as in real-time, and update active images and loops for certain product types.

Back-pocket notes:
Notification with Radar, Satellite, LAPS, and MSAS
No notification for point data (surface observations, lightning, model data)

## WES6.0+

- GFE/GHG
- Replay archived grids
- Develop ways to archive grids
- D2D and GFE in sync

**Notes:**

You should have received a PC running Linux, a Linux version of AWIPS, at least one case (guides are on the way), and the WES software. 

The WES software is really just a “data pump” . Every minute it searches for new data, and reveals as in real-time, and update active images and loops for certain product types.

Back-pocket notes:
Notification with Radar, Satellite, LAPS, and MSAS
No notification for point data (surface observations, lightning, model data)

## WES6.0+

- ORPG
- Level II data from NCDC as input
- First implementation to allow creation of products for case generation
- Future versions integrate into simulations
- Cross sections
- Experimental algorithms

**Notes:**

You should have received a PC running Linux, a Linux version of AWIPS, at least one case (guides are on the way), and the WES software. 

The WES software is really just a “data pump” . Every minute it searches for new data, and reveals as in real-time, and update active images and loops for certain product types.

Back-pocket notes:
Notification with Radar, Satellite, LAPS, and MSAS
No notification for point data (surface observations, lightning, model data)

## WES6.0+

- Hydrological Apps
- If WES integrates Postgres
- RFC “SHARE”
- WFO hydro apps

**Notes:**

You should have received a PC running Linux, a Linux version of AWIPS, at least one case (guides are on the way), and the WES software. 

The WES software is really just a “data pump” . Every minute it searches for new data, and reveals as in real-time, and update active images and loops for certain product types.

Back-pocket notes:
Notification with Radar, Satellite, LAPS, and MSAS
No notification for point data (surface observations, lightning, model data)

## WES6.0+

- Future evaluation tools

**Notes:**

You should have received a PC running Linux, a Linux version of AWIPS, at least one case (guides are on the way), and the WES software. 

The WES software is really just a “data pump” . Every minute it searches for new data, and reveals as in real-time, and update active images and loops for certain product types.

Back-pocket notes:
Notification with Radar, Satellite, LAPS, and MSAS
No notification for point data (surface observations, lightning, model data)

## Integration Into AWIPS Baseline

- “DRT” Displaced Real Time
- Voted #1 priority in New Science category for OB5 AWIPS development
- Project abandoned in OB5-7
- AWIPS SREC: OB8
- Back on AWIPS SREC list
- First must survive OSIP

**Notes:**

You should have received a PC running Linux, a Linux version of AWIPS, at least one case (guides are on the way), and the WES software. 

The WES software is really just a “data pump” . Every minute it searches for new data, and reveals as in real-time, and update active images and loops for certain product types.

Back-pocket notes:
Notification with Radar, Satellite, LAPS, and MSAS
No notification for point data (surface observations, lightning, model data)

## Parting Thoughts

- WES platform can be used for technology and training infusion
- CIMMS/WDTB will continue to develop AWIPS training capabilities in WES until AWIPS baseline develops them
- Can start to close the gap between training version and real-time version if AWIPS establishes training functionality into infrastructure
- Data backward compatibility
- Old and new functionality
- WDTB longer term future focus more on high-level learning and evaluation tools

**Notes:**

You should have received a PC running Linux, a Linux version of AWIPS, at least one case (guides are on the way), and the WES software. 

The WES software is really just a “data pump” . Every minute it searches for new data, and reveals as in real-time, and update active images and loops for certain product types.

Back-pocket notes:
Notification with Radar, Satellite, LAPS, and MSAS
No notification for point data (surface observations, lightning, model data)