| textdb -r A:HH CCCNNNXXX
| retrieve the last HH hours' data for product CCCNNNXXX
|
| textdb -r A:HH 000NNNXXX
| retrieve the last HH hours' data for any NNNXXX
|
| textdb -rw <WMO ID> -rs <site ID> -rh <HH>
| retrieve the last HH hours' data for the given WMO ID and site
|
| textdb -rw <WMO ID> -rh <HH>
| retrieve the last HH hours' data for the given WMO ID
|
| textdb -rs <site ID> -rh <HH>
| retrieve the last HH hours' data for the given site
|
Graphics/image workstation
New features
- Plots of winds from the QuikSCAT satellite are added to the
Obs menu. These scatterometer winds appear over ocean areas.
- The Sounding-derived plots section of the NCEP/Hydro menu now
includes a ceiling/visibility/weather plot from the forecast
soundings. Please note that separate algorithms are used to
compute the cloud layers and the cloud base, and that the cloud
base algorithm always assigns a base if there is convective
precipitation forecast, so there will be inconsistencies at
times in the plots.
- New CPC temperature and precipitation anomaly forecast displays
are now available on the NCEP/Hydro menu ("Outlook Grids"). These
monthly outlooks are displayed from grids, so can be displayed in
image form using the popup menu over the legend. The first two menu
items load below-, near-, and above-normal fields.
- Radar items:
- Volume Browser:
- Non-FSL work that affects the UI:
- The system monitor now includes links to the NDFD monitor
page and IFPS Service Backup configuration information. (MDL)
- New on the satellite menu is a suite of GOES imagery produced
by the sounder instrument. (SEC)
Improvements
- The behavior of the sliders in the Image Controls dialog has
changed to make brightness and fade operations more responsive on
the Linux workstations. Now, when you drag with button 1, no changes
are made to the display until you release the button. You can still
click with button 1 for a single step change, or click with button 2
for a "snap to" change.
- You can now sample the value of a vector displayed with arrows.
- Volume Browser:
- Numerous additional parameters are now available via the Volume
Browser. These include SWEAT index; several CAPE fields, including
cross sections and layer max; CIN; downdraft CAPE; helicity; non-QG
(Petterson) frontogenesis; and forward propagating Corfidi vectors.
For ensembles, new fields include wind speed mean/std dev and
accumulated precipitation. Other new fields are virtual temperature,
mixing ratio, and wind direction. Some new pressure layers are added,
along with additional AGL choices (for the Vorticity Generation
Parameter) and a few equivalent potential temperature levels. Also
new are time series of low-, mid-, and high-level cloud cover from
model soundings.
- Additional tropical cyclone wind grids will be available on an
event-driven basis. These grids (Central Pacific/Hawaii and Western
Pacific/Guam areas) are primarily for use in IFPS, but will
be accessible for display from the Volume Browser (source HawHurWind
and GuamHurWind). A new wind direction depiction is also available
to use with these grids.
- The AVN and MRF names have been retired, with all such grids
now referred to as GFS.
- Grids are now titled with their delivered resolution (e.g.,
ETA40, GFS180). In some cases, however, higher-resolution
components are available, such as Eta precipitation, or different
resolutions are used at different time projections, such as >168
hours on the GFS (old MRF). The product label will show the actual
resolution of each grid used.
- Eta model grids are available to 84 hours, and AVN (higher-res
GFS) to 168 hours (both installed with an OB2 patch).
- See Radar, below, re a change in the VWP display.
- Radar items:
- Support is provided for new radar VCPs. Among other things this
means:
- Legacy 4-bit (16 level) and 3-bit (8 level) products are demoted
to submenus, as the display now uses generic selectors that load 8-bit
(256 level) data, if available, filling in with 4-bit or 3-bit as
necessary.
- Standard storm and clear air reflectivity color tables are now
"ramped," to take advantage of the 8-bit data depth. Note:
Due to the new data-value-to-color mapping used by the combined
8-4-3-bit data, many custom tables will not work with the new
displays. The procedure update program will in those cases erase the
color table stored in the bundle (actually, replace it with all
zeroes), with the result that the default color table will be used
with these displays. In such cases, you'll have to recreate your
custom tables and reapply them to the bundles.
- Instead of each individual tilt being on the menu, and the
resultant sparse selection of "live" items, depending on VCP in use,
the menu now lists "tilt bins" which will be more generally populated
by current data. In addition, a change from, say, 3.5 to 3.4 degree
tilt with a VCP change will be transparent, with a loop selecting the
tilt needed for each frame from within the bin.
- New radar products include Digital VIL (DVL), Enhanced Echo Tops
(EET), and Digital Storm Total Precipitation (DSP). New color tables
to support these are found in the Radar color table submenu: Digital
VIL, Enhanced Echo Tops, and Storm Total Precip. Also available are
OSF versions of DVL and DSP tables.
(Please see the
developer's notes for more information on and examples of these
new products.)
- Combined VWP-model soundings (via the Volume Browser) now are
available for each volume scan, with the model data time-interpolated
to the VAD winds time. Model winds are used above the top of the VAD
stack to complete the profile. (Note that the model data are from the
grids, not the point soundings.)
- It's now possible to request MRU with multiple elevations from
the One-Time Request application.
- WarnGen items:
- Product Maker items:
Bug fixes
New bugs
Text workstation
New features
- Non-FSL work that affects the UI:
Improvements
Bug fixes
LDAD
New features
Improvements
Bug fixes
Last modified: 6 Feb 04