The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) NWS Weather Event.pdf

P7.7 BUILDS FIVE AND SIX OF NOAA’S NWS WEATHER EVENT SIMULATOR 12* 12 12 Michael A. Magsig , Timm Decker , and Nazir Mohammed Said 1 Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, OK 2 Also affiliated with the NOAA/NWS/Warning Decision Training Branch, Norman, OK 1. Introduction The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) NWS Weather Event Simulator (WES) is a Linux-based software package that allows the playback and simulation of weather events using operational software and archived datasets from the NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS). The WES software is released with an operational build of the NWS’s Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) software (Fig. 1). Development and release of WES is managed by the Warning Decision Training Branch (WDTB) in collaboration with the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Figure 1. NOAA’s NWS Weather Event Simulator Meteorological Studies (CIMMS). version 5.0 main graphical user interface. Over the four years since its release, the role of WES has steadily expanded inside and outside In order to stay current with NWS operational the NWS (see Magsig and Page 2002, Ferree et needs, the WES has had to continually evolve in al. 2002, Magsig and Page 2003, Magsig 2004, step with new developments in AWIPS. WES5.0 Magsig et al. 2005). The WES is used yearly by was released in August 2005 to i