Aviation Forecast Preparation System

Aviation Forecast Preparation System

System and User Guide

AvnFPS Team, Product Generation Branch

Meteorological Development Laboratory

Silver Spring, Maryland

Version OB8.3

15 June 2008

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. System Administration

1. System Overview

1.1. Name and Event Server
1.2. Data Ingest Server
1.3. Data Request Server
1.4. Transmission Server
1.5. Client Programs

2. Configuring AvnFPS

2.1. Files in etc
2.2. TAF configuration files
2.3. X resources configuration files
2.4. Climatological Data

3. Starting and Stopping AvnFPS

3.1. Starting AvnFPS Servers
3.2. Stopping AvnFPS Servers

4. Avnsetup

4.1. Editing Monitoring Rules
4.2. Editing TAF Site Information
4.3. Editing TAF Site Templates
4.4. Editing TAF Product Definition
4.5. Creating Triggers
4.6. Using Text Editor

5. Configuring IFPS to send gridded data to AvnFPS

7. Troubleshooting

7.1. Overall Server Health
7.2. Log Files
7.3. Data Ingest
7.4. Climatology Files
7.5. Product Transmission

2. User's Guide

1. Startup Menu

2. TAF Monitor

2.1. TAF Monitor Window
2.2. Server Status Indicators
2.3. Editor and Product Selection Buttons
2.4. Menu Bar
2.5. Resource Editor

3. TAF Editor

3.1. Starting the TAF Editor
3.2. Using the TAF Viewer
3.3. Using the TAF Editor
3.4. Using the Guidance Viewer
3.5. Taf Editor Menu Bar

4. Forecast Transmission

5. Weather Plot

6. Climatology Tools

6.1. Climatology Startup Menu
6.2. METAR Display
6.3. Wind Rose
6.4. Ceiling and Visibility Distribution
6.5. Ceiling and Visibility Trend

A. Editor Key Bindings

B. Monitoring Rules

C. Climate Quality Control

D. Low Level Wind Shear Monitoring

E. Ceiling and Visibility Grid Monitoring

Bibliography

List of Tables

A.1. Key Bindings
B.1. METAR Monitoring Rules
B.2. GFE Grid Monitoring Rules
B.3. Lightning monitoring rules
B.4. Lightning probability forecast monitoring rules
B.5. CCFP monitoring rules
B.6. Low Level Wind Shear Monitoring Rules


		Introduction