Integrated Environmental Sampling (OB8.3)
User Interface Working Group
Presented By:
Jim Ramer
When: 15
October 2007
GSD Attendees:
Jim Ramer, Joanne Edwards, Woody Roberts, Carl Bullock, Susan Williams
Teleconference
Attendees: Mike Magsig, Mike Istok, Greg Noonan, Jeff
Waldstreicher, Eric Howieson
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for the UIWG materials prepared by Jim Ramer.
Integrated
Environemntal Sampling
There is a desire to get additional environmental data when sampling
radar data. Jim has prototyped this capability using the cloud height
sampling function developed by the AWS. In his material, Jim has
presented menu layouts and sample displays for achieving this
functionality in conjunction with radar data.
The following points were discusssed:
- In the prototype, the Integrated Environmental Sampling is
accessed on the main menu by selecting Env. It was
suggested that perhaps this selector be moved under the Radar menu.
This is a great idea, but this menu is becoming very long. Suggestions
to alleviate the menu length problem include:
- Create a pull-right menu for the Radar Applications
- Create a pull-right menu consisting of the RPS List Editor,
Alert
Request, and OTR as these deal more with configuration than
applications.
- Create a Radar Working Group (including Regional Focal Points)
that would
- Consider how to restructure all the radar menus, and
- Have the authority to complete this task.
Decided that radar menu would be addressed. Strongly
suggested that the Regional Focal Points be included.
- Create a separate pull-right for each environmental package with
specific parameters.
- Explore non all-tilt space load products (Jim action item).
- A translation table would be created for variable names.
Currently the name of variable is taken from the grib information in
the model. Mike Magsig to provide a list of defaults and labeling
suggestions and create environmental packages for training.
- When bringing up the integrated environmental sampling, why not
have the skew-T pop-up? Jim will look into this, but again this is AWS
code and it may not be possible.
- Currently, to get the pop-up Skew-T, the user must load the
tilt product, select the environmental package, and then right
click and select Sampling
Cloud Height. Suggested that the label be changed so that the
user knows this is how to get the pop-up Skew-T for radar data as well.
Suggested that the label be Sample Cloud
Height/Radar Skew-T.
- It was demonstrated that to see the actual grid data, the density
must be changed from 0. Zero is the default setting for the
environmental sampling.
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