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| Developer | Tech Lead | RWP # | Sub Req# |
Sub Req# |
Release 5.2.1 Requirements List Description |
DCS # |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Kent | Joanne Edwards |
7 no DWP |
- | - | Faster Availability New Products/Models Fields in AWIPS | - |
| Tom Kent | 7 | 5 | - | AWIPS shall have functionality to allow AWIPS System Managers to add selected satellite imagery for existing satellite projections to AWIPS ingest tables, template files, and purge parameters to allow storage of new display | - | |
| Tom Kent | 7 | 6 | - | AWIPS shall have functionality to allow AWIPS System Managers to add selected satellite imagery for existing satellite projections to the D-2D menu to allow display of new satellite imagery | - | |
| Dale Perry | Joanne Edwards |
30
DWP |
- | - | Ingest and Display Model Soundings in BUFR | - |
| Dale Perry | 30 | 5 | - | Cloud Amount | - | |
| Dale Perry | 30 | 6 | - | Omega | - | |
| Dale Perry | 30 | 7 | - | Freezing Level | - | |
| Dale Perry | 30 | 8 | - | Tropopause Level | - | |
| Dale Perry | 30 | 9 | - | Precipitation Type | - | |
| Dale Perry | 30 | 10 | - | Precipitation Intensity | - | |
| Dale Perry | 30 | 11 | - | Precipitation Amount (1, 3, 6, 12 hr) | - | |
| Dale Perry | 30 | 12 | - | Snow Water Equivalent | - | |
| Dale Perry | 30 | 13 | - | Snow Accumulation (1 hr) | - | |
| Dale Perry | 30 | 14 | - | Pressure | - | |
| Dale Perry | 30 | 15 | - | Catagorical Weather Type | - | |
| Dale Perry | 30 | 16 | - | Total Precipitable Water | - | |
| Dale Perry | 30 | 17 | - | Visibility | - | |
| Dale Perry | 30 | 18 | - | Stability Parameters (CAPE, CIN, LI) | - | |
| Dale Perry | 30 | 19 | - | Derived Parameters Calculable from the above Parameters | - | |
| Dale Perry | Joanne Edwards |
35 DWP |
1 | - | Satellite Data Products | - |
| Dale Perry | 35 | 1 | 2 | *A.2. Polar Orbiting Earth Satellite (POES) BUFR Soundings - 5.0 Interim Maintenance | - | |
| Dale Perry | 35 | 2 | 3 | *B. GOES BUFR High Density Winds - 5.0 Interim Maintenance | - | |
| Jim Ramer | Mike Biere |
41 DWP |
- | - | ACARS data ingest and display on D2D | - |
| Jim Ramer | 41 | 1 | 1 | 1.1 Data from individual aircraft shall be selectable for viewing. Sounding fields (T, Td from Water Vapor Sensing System (WVSS), winds) shall be visually distinct. For example, T may be a solid line; Td may be a dashed line. [5.0 maintenance release]. | - | |
| Jim Ramer | 41 | 1 | 4 | 1.4 AWIPS shall provide data values as a cursor readout (i.e. temperature and winds) for the portion of the sounding with which it is in contact. [5.0 maintenance release] | - | |
| Jim Ramer | 41 | 2 | - | AWIPS shall display aircraft flight track corresponding to the sounding period. This should be on a high-resolution zoomable map similar to the existing hodograph map window at lower left corner of D2D window- with the airport at the origin. Since the zoom occurs with ACARS data, this flight track window should remain in the D2D pane and its map shall zoom with the data zoom. [5.1] | - | |
| Jim Ramer | 41 | 3 | - | AWIPS shall display ACARS data on elevation-based geographic plots (plan-views) of wind, temperature, and, when available, moisture data. [5.1] | - | |
| Jim Ramer | 41 | 3 | 7 | AWIPS shall be able to display all ACARS data from 35 W to 170 E longitude and from 10 N to 60 N (70 N for Alaska) on plan-view graphics. [5.1] | - | |
| Jim Ramer | 41 | 4 | - | Data Storage, Timeliness and Transmission AWIPS shall provide a default retention period for ACARS data of the same period as radiosonde and profiler data. [5.1] | - | |
| Jim Ramer | 41 | 4 | 1 | AWIPS shall receive ACARS data every 5 minutes on the SBN. ACARS data should be available on local AWIPS sites within 15 minutes after the observation is made on board the aircraft. [5.1] | - | |
| Developer | Tech Lead | RWP # | Sub Req# |
Sub Req# |
Release 5.2.1 Requirements List Description |
DCS # |
| Jim Ramer | Mike Biere |
42 DWP |
- | - | Plotting of AIREPS on D2D | - |
| Jim Ramer | 42 | 3 | - | AWIPS shall decode AIREP data received in collectives [5.2] | - | |
| Jim Ramer | 42 | 4 | - | AWIPS shall use components of the AIREP observations in station model plots as defined by the user (related to RWP001) [5.2] | - | |
| Jim Ramer | 42 | 6 | - | AWIPS shall be able to archive individual AIREPs identified by the user or all AIREPs within selected time intervals (related to RWPs 193 and 199) [5.2] | - | |
| Jim Ramer | Mike Biere |
49 DWP |
- | - | Marine Warnings | - |
| Jim Ramer | 49 | 3 | - | AWIPS shall provide the capability to allow the forecaster to specify geographic areas for warning products by selecting the endpoints of the area along the coastline. [5.0 maintenance release] | - | |
| Jim Ramer | 49 | 6 | - | AWIPS shall display Canadian buoy data as well as U.S. buoy data to support marine warning generation. [5.1] | - | |
| TBD | Joanne Edwards |
86 DWP |
- | - | Derive, Modify, and Display Parameters from Sounding Data (aka, "Vertical Product Maker") | - |
| TBD | 86 | 1 | - | AWIPS shall allow mathematical operations on parameters contained in the following sounding data types: | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 1 | 1 | Model Soundings: ETA, AVN, RUC | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 1 | 2 | GOES Soundings | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 1 | 3 | NOAA (POES) Soundings | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 1 | 4 | ACARS | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 1 | 5 | Profilers | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 1 | 6 | Radiosondes | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 2 | - | AWIPS shall allow users to apply standard meteorological functions to all valid parameters within the sounding and derivable from the sounding, to include: | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 2 | 1 | Wind | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 2 | 2 | Temperature | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 2 | 3 | Theta, Theta-e | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 2 | 4 | Moisture (mixing ratio, relative humidity, dewpoint, dewpoint depression, precip water) | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 2 | 5 | Height | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 2 | 6 | Omega | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 2 | 7 | Wet Bulb Zero | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 3 | - | AWIPS shall allow the following operations to be applied to sounding parameters: | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 3 | 1 | Addition | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 3 | 2 | Subtraction | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 3 | 3 | Division | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 3 | 4 | Multiplication | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 3 | 5 | Mean | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 3 | 6 | Maxima/Minima | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 3 | 7 | Integral | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 3 | 8 | Log | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 3 | 9 | Apply Constants | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 4 | - | AWIPS shall allow users to modify existing or create new stability algorithms (example: Lifted Index, K-Index, Showalters, CAPE, CIN, Helicity, Haines) | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 5 | - | AWIPS shall allow users to select layer top and bottom end points for operations using the nearest or explicit levels: | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 5 | 1 | Pressure (mb) | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 5 | 2 | Height (gpm, agl (ft), agl (m)) | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 5 | 3 | Temperature (C, K, F) | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 6 | - | AWIPS shall allow users to save vertical sounding operations as a script with unique names which can be recalled by users of any workstation | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 7 | - | AWIPS shall display output from derived sounding parameters on: | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 7 | 1 | D-2D - vertical | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 7 | 2 | D-2D - planar surfaces | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 7 | 3 | Graphical - x,y | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 7 | 4 | Text window - tabular formats | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 8 | - | AWIPS shall export output from display views to the following devices: | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 8 | 1 | Printers (color and laser) | - | |
| TBD | 86 | 8 | 2 | Graphical File Formats (GIF, JPG) | - | |
| Developer | Tech Lead | RWP # | Sub Req# |
Sub Req# |
Release 5.2.1 Requirements List Description |
DCS # |
| Mike Biere | Mike Biere |
111 no DWP |
- | - | Ability to save images as GIFs, JPEGs, etc. | - |
| Mike Biere | 111 | 5 | - | The maximum size of the cropped screen shall be the full display screen [5.1] | - | |
| Mike Biere | 111 | 6 | - | The minimum size of the cropped screen shall be 20% of the main display pane or one of the smaller parking panes. [5.1] | - | |
| Joanne Edwards | Joanne Edwards |
169 no DWP |
3 | - | AWIPS shall display the following products from the National Radar Composite: | - |
| Joanne Edwards | 169 | 3 | 2 | echo tops, 4-km resolution, every 6 minutes; [5.1] | - | |
| Joanne Edwards | 169 | 3 | 3 | VIL, 4-km resolution, every 6 minutes; [5.1] | - | |
| Joanne Edwards | 169 | 3 | 4 | composite reflectivity, 4-km resolution, every 6 minutes; [5.1] | - | |
| Joanne Edwards | 169 | 3 | 6 | one-hour precipitation, 2-km resolution, every 12 minutes; [5.1] | - | |
| TBD | Joanne Edwards |
178 no DWP |
0 | - | Availability of Global Observations at NCEP and OCONUS AWIPS Sites | - |
| TBD | 178 | 1 | - | Generic functionality AWIPS shall support: | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 1 | 1 | Availability of operationally critical data to OCONUS and NCEP users | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 1 | 2 | Flexibility to ingest mission critical data though SBN, AWIPS WAN, LDAD, and local sources | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 1 | 3 | Decoding of mission critical data | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 1 | 4 | Storage and retention of critical data | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 1 | 5 | Display in planer, cross sectional, and text formats of mission critical data as appropriate | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 2 | - | AWIPS shall support the data needs for OCONUS and NCEP users, bounded by: | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 2 | 1 | Operational area of responsibility (AOR) of the work center | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 2 | 2 | Area of interest of the work center | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 3 | - | AWIPS localization shall support the unique data needs of individual National Centers and Regions | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 4 | - | AWIPS localization behavior shall exclude data availability and D-2D menu links for AWIPS sites not requiring the unique or local data sets | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 5 | - | AWIPS localization behavior shall exclude data availability and D-2D menu links for AWIPS sites not requiring the unique or local data sets | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 5 | 1 | AWIPS ID, and TTAAii CCCC DDHHMM NNNXXX (refer to RWP for exact format) | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 5 | 2 | World Meteological Organization (WMO) Heading TTAAii CCCC DDHHMM | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | - | AWIPS shall support the ingest, decode, storage, and display of the following: | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 1 | Surface | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 1 | All hourly surface data reports (including METAR and ASOS) | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 1 | All special surface data reports (non-hourly METAR) | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 1 | Buoy Data (drifting and fixed) | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 1 | Ship Data | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 1 | Synoptic observations (RWP0285 - Describes SYNOP decoder functionality) | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 1 | CMAN (Coastal Marine Automated Network) observations | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 1 | Field program data, mesonet data (as it becomes available), ALERT, IFLOWS and other RFC data | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 1 | Satellite Cloud Product (SCP) reports | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 1 | Supplemental Data Observations (SDO) | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 1 | GOES Data Collection Platform (DCP) observations | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 1 | Local and state weather and climate summaries, including: | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 1 | agricultural weather observations (SXUS04) | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 1 | climate summaries (CSUS2) | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 1 | cooperative station data (RWUS11) | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 1 | supplemental climalogical data reports (SCDR) | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 2 | Upper Air Data | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 2 | All Radiosonde observations (regular and off-time, text and BUFR formats) | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 2 | Aircraft data (PIREPS, AIREPS) | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 2 | Vertical Profiler | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 3 | Aircraft Reports | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 3 | All available pilot reports | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 3 | RECON data, including GPS dropsonde and flight level data | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 4 | International Text Bulletins, to include: | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 4 | Japan Typhoon Bulletins - FXPQ20 RJTD | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 4 | Bracknell Tropical Cyclone Guidance - FXXT03 EGRR | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 4 | Japan Warning Summary - WWJP20 RJTD | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 4 | Air Force Weather Satellite Fix Bulletin - TPPN10 KGWC | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 4 | JTWC Satellite Fix Bulletin - TPPN10 PGTW | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 4 | Tropical Distrubance Bulletin - WTPS11 NFFN | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 4 | JTWC Prognostic Reasoning - WDPN31 PGTW | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 4 | JTWC Typhoon Warnings - WTPN31 PGTW | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 4 | JTWC Tropical Advisories - ABPW10 PGTW | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 4 | FNMOC Model Summary Bulletin - PDPN1 KNWC | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 5 | International Lightning Data | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 5 | Alaska Region Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Lightning Data (POC: Jim Kemper) | - | |
| TBD | 178 | 6 | 5 | Global Atmospherics Inc (GAI) Long Range Lightning Data generated from reprocessed National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) and Lightning Detection and Ranging (LDAR) when available (POC: Jamie Kousky) | - | |
| Developer | Tech Lead | RWP # | Sub Req# |
Sub Req# |
Release 5.2.1 Requirements List Description |
DCS # |
| TBD | TBD |
183 no DWP |
- | - | AWIPS automatic generation of graphical products for dissemination | - |
| TBD | 183 | 4 | - | AWIPS shall provide the capability to generate graphical products from model grids, satellite imagery, the IFPS forecast digital database, and observational station and buoy data [5.1] | - | |
| TBD | 183 | 5 | - | AWIPS shall provide an integration of the data display and product generation capabilities, and provide one graphical user interface from which the user can display the graphic, and generate and transmit the official graphical product [5.1] | - | |
| TBD | 183 | 6 | - | AWIPS shall provide the capability to include lines, contours, streamlines, arrows and symbols, shading and hatching for selected areas, in user-selected colors in the automated graphical products [5.1] | - | |
| TBD | 183 | 7 | - | AWIPS shall provide the capability to combine portions of official user graphical products, into a composited graphic, and apply a smoothing algorithm to mesh the graphics along the borders of these composites [5.1] | - | |
| TBD | 183 | 8 | - | AWIPS shall provide the capability to convert graphics products into gridded data sets [5.1] | - | |
| TBD | 183 | 9 | - | AWIPS shall provide the capability to sub-divide an area of a graphical product into smaller graphical products for dissemination [5.1] | - | |
| TBD | 183 | 10 | - | AWIPS shall provide the capability to generate graphics in user-selected standard map projections, and convert graphics from one map projection to another [5.1] | - | |
| TBD | 183 | 11 | - | AWIPS shall provide the capability to generate graphics with correctly rotated symbols and text for any user selected map projection [5.1] | - | |
| TBD | 183 | 12 | - | AWIPS shall provide the capability to generate graphics products at intermediate periods from an initial product utilizing graphical interpolation techniques [5.1] | - | |
| TBD | TBD |
190 no DWP |
- | - | Data overlays and underlays in IFPS | - |
| TBD | 190 | 7 | - | AWIPS shall provide a means of display for the following imagery and gridded data sets types available within the D2D as overlays or underlays in the spatial editor of the GFE at the WFO and National scales [5.1]: | - | |
| TBD | 190 | 7 | 1 | all NCEP, Navy, UKMET, Canadian, and ECMWF generated model analyses and forecasts | - | |
| TBD | 190 | 7 | 2 | LAPS, MAPS, and LAMP analyses and forecasts | - | |
| TBD | 190 | 7 | 3 | Air Force MM5 satellite imagery | - | |
| TBD | 190 | 7 | 4 | national and regional radar mosaics, and site specific radar imagery | - | |
| TBD | 190 | 7 | 5 | NCEP value added gridded forecasts and guidance products | - | |
| TBD | 190 | 8 | - | AWIPS shall provide a means of display for the following graphics available within the D2D as overlays or underlays above [or below] the sensible weather element graphics in the spatial editor of the GFE at national, regional, state, and WFO scales [5.1]: | - | |
| TBD | 190 | 8 | 1 | Redbook graphics of NCEP generated contoured guidance products | - | |
| TBD | 190 | 8 | 2 | Redbook graphics of NCEP, Navy, UKMET, ECMWF analyses and forecasts | - | |
| TBD | 190 | 8 | 3 | Redbook graphics of NCEP frontal analyses and forecasts | - | |
| TBD | Mark Mathewson |
215 no DWP |
5 | - | Sounding-based initializations in IFPS | - |
| TBD | 215 | 6 | - | AWIPS shall provide flexible initialization techniques for IFPS to allow sounding-based initializations of new models which becxome available on AWIPS via the SBN [5.1] | - | |
| Developer | Tech Lead | RWP # | Sub Req# |
Sub Req# |
Release 5.2.1 Requirements List Description |
DCS # |
| TBD | Mark Mathewson |
223 no DWP |
0 | - | Overlay D2D Gridded Data in the Graphical Forecast Editor | - |
| TBD | 223 | 1 | - | AWIPS shall provide the capability to display all gridded data sets which are available in D2D as an overlay above the gridded sensible weather elements within the spatial editor of the Graphical Forecast Editor (GFE) of IFPS [5.1] | - | |
| TBD | 223 | 2 | - | AWIPS shall provide the user the capability to select any specific vertical level of the models for any forecast period of the gridded D2D data files which are to be displayed as an overlay above the gridded sensible weather elements from a menu option within the GFE. [5.1] | - | |
| TBD | 223 | 3 | - | AWIPS shall provide a method for utilizing the grid values of the gridded D2D data files which are displayed over the sensible weather element grids in the spatial editor in GFE for computation of derived gridded sensible forecast weather elements [5.2] | - | |
| TBD | 223 | 4 | - | AWIPS shall provide a means of display for the following imagery and gridded data sets types available within the D2D as overlays in the spatial editor of the GFE at the WFO scale [5.1]: | - | |
| TBD | 223 | 4 | 1 | all NCEP, Navy, UKMET, and ECMWF generated model analyses and forecasts | - | |
| TBD | 223 | 4 | 2 | LAPS, MAPS, and LAMP analyses and forecasts | - | |
| TBD | 223 | 4 | 3 | satellite imagery | - | |
| TBD | 223 | 4 | 4 | national and regional mosaics, and site specific radar imagery | - | |
| TBD | Mark Mathewson |
292 no DWP |
0 | - | IFPS Gridded Data Resolution | - |
| TBD | 292 | 1 | - | AWIPS shall provide the capability to initialize and display grids of default (as specified in RWP 238) and derived sensible weather elements in the Graphical Forecast Editor (GFE) of IFPS at the following spatial resolution: | - | |
| TBD | 292 | 1 | 1 | 10 km [5.1] | - | |
| TBD | 292 | 1 | 2 | 1 km [5.2] | - | |
| TBD | 292 | 2 | - | AWIPS shall provide the capability to generate images from grids of default (as specified in RWP 238) and derived sensible weather elements within the GFE at the following spatial resolution: | - | |
| TBD | 292 | 2 | 1 | 10 km [5.1] | - | |
| TBD | 292 | 2 | 2 | 1 km [5.2] | - | |
| TBD | 292 | 3 | - | AWIPS shall provide the capability in IFPS to locally configure the spatial resolution of the sensible weather element initialization, display and product generation available in GFE in the following ranges: | - | |
| TBD | 292 | 3 | 1 | from 19 km to 10 km [5.1] | - | |
| TBD | 292 | 3 | 2 | from 19 to 1 km [5.2] | - | |
| TBD | 292 | 4 | - | AWIPS shall provide the capability to generate gridded products of sensible weather from grids of default and derived sensible weather grids within the GFE at the following spatial resolution: | - | |
| TBD | 292 | 4 | - | 10 km [5.1] | - | |
| TBD | 292 | 4 | - | 1 km [5.2] | - |