1. Weather Coder 3 Examples (Not real observations, we hope !)
Grant Kelly, Greg McCurdy, Kelly Redmond
Western Regional Climate Center
Desert Research Institute
Reno Nevada
AASC Annual Meeting
Coeur d’Alene ID July 16-19, 2007

2. Opening page acis.dri.edu/wxcoder

3. Welcome to Station Named Demo

4. Form presented to station
WFO Reno
Now enter observations

5. Calendar showing days that have observations

6. Form ready for observer entry (numbers deliberately faint)

7. Form with 2 days opened, precip times, remarks

8. Printable copy for local storage

9. Observer error, logical inconsistency, TMIN > TOBS

10. Just prior to submission:
Does everything look right?
Then submit

11. Strange day, definite and uncertain precip times, remarks.

12. Lost? Mixed up? Can’t understand ?
Press the help button.

13. Bad Snow Depth
Observer entered 1.0 inch
Whole inches only

14. Made the correction
Now confirm before submittal

15. Hmmmm…
This is a monthly extreme temperature.
Are you sure ??
Please confirm.

16. Email sent to site administrator
Monthly extreme exceeded
This may merit further attention.

17. Site Administrator can track
detailed station metadata.
Protected site

18. More complex station
This one also has
soil and river information