dds Aviation Digital Display Service C Bruce Entwistle

@dds Aviation Digital Display Service C. Bruce Entwistle Science and Operations Officer Aviation Weather Center Kansas City, MO Bruce. Entwistle@noaa. gov

What is ADDS? QWeb site for the aviation community (adds. aviationweather. gov) QForecasts, analyses, and observations QText, digital, and graphical formats QOperational since 2003 QOperated by NWS NCEP AWC in Kansas City QJoint effort with NCAR RAL and ESRL GSD October 7, 2009 @dds – NOAA System of Systems Workshop 2

ADDS Content METARs Wind and temps TAFs NCWF PIREPs CIP AIRMETs, SIGMETs FIP Satellite, radar GTG Charts Flight Path Tool October 7, 2009 @dds – NOAA System of Systems Workshop 3

ADDS’ Users Pilots Dispatchers FSS Briefers Meteorologists October 7, 2009 @dds – NOAA System of Systems Workshop 4

Usage October 7, 2009 @dds – NOAA System of Systems Workshop 5

Usage October 7, 2009 @dds – NOAA System of Systems Workshop 6

ADDS Interfaces QPHP creates page QStatic displays QMy. SQL QUser makes request and gets display QJava tools allow interaction and customization October 7, 2009 @dds – NOAA System of Systems Workshop 7

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ADDS Components My. SQL cluster database contents • • Text Image locations (on fileserver) Image metadata Location metadata My. SQL server environment • php • RHEL 5 • Java October 7, 2009 @dds – NOAA System of Systems Workshop 9

ADDS Components NCAR MDV Tomcat • MDV is NCAR’s gridded data format • Static data – no refresh to web page (yet) WEBGEN – Web page generator WEBIMG – Web image generator October 7, 2009 @dds – NOAA System of Systems Workshop 10

On the Horizon QDue in 2010, MDV server provides dynamically updated data for Flight Path Tool QHEMS tool and Flight Path Tool convergence QXML data server QFAA funds NCAR for ADDS changes See experimental ADDS (weather. aero) October 7, 2009 @dds – NOAA System of Systems Workshop 11