# Presentation: 037986

## GFESuite Plans	

- Mark Mathewson

## Short-Term Plans (through April 03)IFPS14 / RPP21

- Text Generation – Local Formatters
- Phrase Builder
- Discrete Data Types in GFE
- OCONUS Work
- Some Enhancements – UI/GFE
- Bug Fixes – Stability - Performance

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## Text Generation (RPP21/IFPS14)

- 10 IOC core products
- Phrase Builder and restructuring
- Will allow local effects
- Will allow better phrasing
- Local formatter infrastructure still changing.

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## Text Generation - phrasing

- North winds 20 to 25 mph near the coast and west winds 10 mph inland becoming 10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph near the coast and 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph inland in the afternoon.
- Near the coast...north winds 20 to 25 mph becoming 10 mph in the afternoon...gusts up to 25 mph.  Inland...west winds 10 mph increasing to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph in the afternoon.

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## Discrete – Data Type (RPP21/IFPS14)

- Similar to Wx, but configurable
- Plan to use for Headlines in GFE Formatters
- Overlap
- Non-Overlap

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## ifpServer Database Restructuring (RPP21/IFPS14)

- Prevent bad data from getting into db
- Saving disk space (roughly 30% of previous)
- More robust
- Allowing changing domains without losing data
- Far more diagnostics on serverConfig/localConfig errors

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## ISC Enhancements

- More tailorability (RPP21/IFPS14)
- Limit processing of ISC xmt/receive data
- By time, By element
- More defaults on dialogs.
- Snow/QPF/PoP/MaxT/MinT display enhancement/fix (RPP22/IFPS15)

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## Other Enhancements (RPP21/IFPS14)

- Split Status Bar

- Break Lock Dialog

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## Temporal Editor Enhancements (RPP21/IFPS14)

- Now uses same samplers as text
- Additional displays show range of data

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## Map Background Enhancements (RPP21/IFPS14)

- Labels now available for every map
- Based on the map attributes
- Very useful for checking data in shapefiles

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## Query Improvements

- Numerical Python – (smart tools/smart init)
- 10-20 times faster than old query language
- Syntax is different

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## Query Syntax

- T > 32
- T – Td > 5
- absolute(T – T_LAPS) > 3
- Weather queries are different
- ‘&’ and ‘|’ operators
- Parenthesis now needed
- (T – Td > 5) & (Topo < 2000)

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## Mid-Term Plans (through IOC)IFPS15/RPP22

- PX boxes for servers
- Smart Tool libraries
- Text Generation how-to documents
- User Interface Enhancements (some)
- From Nov 2002 RPP workshop
- Beginnings of Gridded DFC (?)
- Time permitting

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## Mid-Term Plans (through IOC) IFPS15/RPP22

- RPP Focus Groups
- Local GFE Text Formatter (ongoing)
- ISC Enhancements (just started)
- DFC (possibly toward end of FY)
- Shake out new functionality/specs
- Requires separate RPP development box
- Requires participation / time commitment

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## Long-Term (after IOC)

*FSL Funding-dependent*
- Improve smart tool / smart init frameworks
- Aviation – 3d – graphical/textual FA, TAF
- Other Improvements??? [200+ outstanding]
- Climate and other static grids
- Partial area populates/copies from grids
- D2D derived elements into GFE

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## Summary

- Lots of work to do.
- Lots of changes appear every s/w release.
- RPP Focus Groups will help us shake down the s/w before AWIPS release, and will help set the specifications.

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