Snowfall_Products

MPE Ingest and Display for D2D

Presented By: MPE Group

When: 10 March 2005

FSL Attendees: Jim, Ramer, Joe Wakefield, Woody Roberts, Joe Golden, Tom Kent, Brian Motta, Tom LeFebvre, Mike Romberg, Carl Bullock

Teleconference Attendees: Ed Mandel, Greg Noonan

Boulder WFO Attendees: Todd Dankers, Mike Baker

Visitors: Rob Hartman, Kevin Werner, Carl Gorski, Mike Boehmke, Kevin Lynott, Mark Glaudemans, Dan Kozlowski, Harold Opitz

In OB6, some locally created datasets will be available. In particular, locally created and edited grids for the MPE model. These grids are irregularly produced with respect to time. Discussed in this UIWG were accessing the MPE grids through the D2D user interface. Currently the MPE grids are accessed by selecting the following on the Regional, States(s) or WFO scale:

NCEP/Hydro > Hydro > QPE > 1hr MPE Precip > Local Contour

or

NCEP/Hydro > Hydro > QPE > 1hr MPE Precip > Local Image

or through the Volume Browser

The following points were made:

Why do we have both an image and a contour on the menu when the user can select the contour and with a right click on the product legend change the contour to an image? This is inconsistent with the other products on the D2D interface.
Will there be other products of this type on the menu at some point? If so, we need to rethink if both contour and image be placed on the menu.
Group decided to move the Local Contour and Local Image up one level with a blue label followed by the menu options, eliminating one level of menu cascade, looking like this:

    Multi-Sensor Precip Estimates

    MPE 1hr Contour
    MPE 1hr Image

Access of the MPE data through the Volume Browser can be made by selecting the following on the Regional, State(s) or WFO scale:

    Sources: MPE
    Fields: Sfc/2D > Precip

    Note that the Planes field is automatically filled in with Surface. The user may now load the product, To display the image, use the middle mouse button and click on the entry in the Product Selection List and then select load.

The displayed product domain does not match the scale. The geographic information for this product is from outside and does not user the D2D tables. This is also exhibited in other products in the D2D interface.
Style entry should be changed to allow the '0' values to be delineated from 'No data'