[nws-changes] 20131030: WSR-88D SW Bld 14 RT Level 2 testing- Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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• Subject: [nws-changes] 20131030: WSR-88D SW Bld 14 RT Level 2 testing- Fwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC
• From: Linda Miller <lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 06:33:29 -0600

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Technical Implementation Notice 13-37
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
718 AM EDT Wed Oct 30 2013

To:         Subscribers
            -Family of Services
            -NOAA Weather Wire Service
            -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
            -NOAAPORT
            Other NWS Partners and Employees

From:       Richard J. Vogt
            Director, WSR-88D Radar Operations Center

Subject:    WSR-88D Software Build 14 Real-Time Level 2 Test Data
            Will Be Available Between November 18 and
            December 10, 2013

The NEXRAD Program will implement software changes in Weather
Surveillance Radar-1988, Doppler (WSR-88D) Radar Data
Acquisition/Radar Product Generator (RDA/RPG) Build 14, that may
impact data/product users and user systems. Beta testing of
Build 14 will begin in February 2014. The software is scheduled
for release starting in April 2014. A summary of the Build 14
changes was provided in TIN 13-4.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notification/tin13-4build14radar.htm

Real-time Level 2 data from the Radar Operations Center (ROC)
test bed WSR-88D (KCRI) will be available during the Build 14
Operations Test at select periods between November 18 and
December 10 2013. You can obtain the data from the NWS Level II
Data Collection and Distribution Network Top Tier Sites. Contact
information for these Top Tier sites is online at:

http://www.roc.noaa.gov/WSR88D/PublicDocs/Level_II/TopTier_Points
OfContact0513.pdf

Information on when data will be available with Supplemental
Adaptive Intra-Volume Low-Level Scan (SAILS) and/or Automated
Volume Scan Evaluation and Termination (AVSET) operating is on
the ROC website:

http://www.roc.noaa.gov/WSR88D/PublicDocs/NewTechnology/SAILS_dat
a_info.pdf

The following additional tools are available to assist user
transition to the Build 14 changes:

1.  Draft Build 14 Interface Control Documents (ICDs) describing
the new data format and data stream (RPG to Class 1, RDA to RPG,
and Product Specification):

http://www.roc.noaa.gov/WSR88D/NewRadarTechnology/NewTechDefault.
aspx

2.  Dates/times of archived test Level 2 data sets, available
from NCDC, using the new format and SAILS and/or AVSET:

http://www.roc.noaa.gov/WSR88D/PublicDocs/NewTechnology/SAILS_AVS
ET_ON-OFF_Times.pdf

3.  An early version of Build 14 Software, executable and source
code, is available for public use from the NWS Common Operations
and Development Environment (CODE):

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/code88d

More detailed descriptions of AVSET and SAILS:

http://www.roc.noaa.gov/WSR88D/NewRadarTechnology/NewTechDefault.
aspx

For questions concerning these changes, please contact:

     Mike Istok
     NWS Office of Science & Technology
     Michael.Istok@xxxxxxxx
or
     Joe Chrisman
     WSR-88D Radar Operations Center
     Joe.N.Chrisman@xxxxxxxx

National Technical Implementation Notices are online at:

  http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm

$$