Week 2 begins... NSSL-WRF updates

It's Monday, which means week two of the Spring Experiment has officially begun. Bill Campbell from NWS HQ, Louis Grasso from CIRA, Wayne Mackenzie and John Walker from UAH, and Wayne Feltz and Jason Otkin from UW-CIMSS are here to participate within the Spring Experiment activities and interact with the forecasters this week. This morning was spent making some changes to the NSSL-WRF simulated satellite imagery. UW-CIMSS was having some issues with the 17Z forecast time period of their run, so their output now begins at 18 UTC. This did not affect the use of the data within the EFP much since most of the forecasts begin at 18 UTC. The times have successfully been extended out to the 03Z forecast period for all bands from UW-CIMSS as well. CIRA extended it's forecast times from 12-00Z to 12-06Z for bands 8 and 13 over the weekend. This change has been implemented in our ingest scripts and the images are now available within any SPC and HWT N-AWIPS system.