Innovative Methods for Displaying UAH CI Product in AWIPS

Some of the forecasters here in the Experimental Warning Program are finding creative ways to integrate the UAH CI product (GOES-R AWG CI product proxy) into their AWIPS workstations. Above is an excellent example of this. In the top-left display quadrant, the Null (blue) and Positive (red) cloud object CI forecasts are overlaid onto GOES Visible satellite data, with an option to change the transparency of the two integrated data sets at the touch of a button. Similarly, in the top-right display quadrant, the UAH CI product is overlaid onto radar data.... This way the forecasters will know where to focus their attention on the radar for future development, especially in regions where severe weather is expected but not yet initiated.