1. LEAD – WRF How to package for the Community? Tom Baltzer

2. Acronyms for LEAD Tools ADAS - ARPS Data Assimilation System (Center for Advanced Prediction of Storms at OU) ADaM - Algorithm Development and Mining (University of Alabama at Huntsville) IDV – Integrated Data Viewer (Unidata) OPeNDAP – Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (OPeNDAP.org) THREDDS – Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services (Unidata) WRF – The Weather and Research Forecasting Model (ARW Core - NCAR) Also: WS-Eta – Workstation Eta Model

3. Current Configuration NCEP NAM (Eta) Forecast Precipitation Locator Center Lat/Lon OPeNDAP Access THREDDS Catalog Unidata LEAD Test Bed Regional Forecasts WS-Eta WRF Initial and Boundary Conditions - WRF being Steered by Chiz’s GEMPAK precipitation locator

4. Next Steps NCEP NAM (Eta) Forecast Precipitation Locator Center Lat/Lon OPeNDAP Access THREDDS Catalog Unidata LEAD Test Bed Regional Forecasts WS-Eta WRF Boundary Conditions CAPS ADAS Assimilation Initial Conditions Millersville ADaM Precip Locator

5. Ultimately NCEP NAM (Eta) Forecast Precipitation Locator Center Lat/Lon OPeNDAP Access THREDDS Catalog Unidata LEAD Test Bed Regional Forecasts WS-Eta WRF Boundary Conditions ADAS IDD Datasets Radar Surface & Upper air Satellite NCEP NAM ADaM

6. When/What to bring to Community? Which of these capabilities is worthy of “packaging” for delivery to the Unidata Community? What form is most desired? Is it better to wait for Web Service model? Note: We’re not suggesting that we’d take over support for WRF, ADAS or ADaM

7. Additional Info: CAPS ADAS Observations 40km ETA/NAM for the background field. Hourly SAO's (U.S., Canada, Mexico). Oklahoma Mesonet. West Texas Mesonet. Ship/buoy/cman. Raob, on raob hours. Profiler data. Level 2 radar data. Level 3 (nids) radar data for missing level 2 radars (mostly military). Visible and IR satellite data. MDCRS data. Note that only reflectivity is used from the radars. Mesowest and Iowa mesonets will be added when I get a chance to fix some decoder problems.