Day 1... Training Day

Today marks the beginning of the 2011 Spring Experiment in the Hazardous Weather Testbed. While the beginning of the day was spent introducing ourselves to... ourselves, we did provide a good deal of forecaster training on the EWP side. EWP forecasters participated in 4 hours of training on the products they would be using throughout the week within their AWIPS systems. Most of the training was given by the visiting scientists via PowerPoint presentation. Each presentation lasted about ~30 minutes, with time afterward for comments a questions.

Geoffrey Stano (NASA SPoRT) provides training on the PGLM to WFO forecasters during EWP training session.
The forecasters were very engaged and often asked how to obtain these products within their local AWIPS at their WFOs. Luckily because of the Proving Ground's emphasis on bringing WFOs experimental GOES-R data, the core cooperative institutes (UW-CIMSS, CIRA and SPoRT) have already prepared for this and it was easy to explain how this could be done. Because of the coordination with theSPC and HWT over the past few years, UW-CIMSS has set up a webpage that has step-by-step instructions for ingesting and displaying their products within any AWIPS system. See... http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes_r/proving-ground/SPC/SPC.html Kudos!