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Aviation Forecast Preparation System

System and User Guide

AvnFPS Team, Product Generation Branch

Meteorological Development Laboratory

Silver Spring, Maryland

Version OB9.2

16 November 2009

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
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. Climate Data File Tool
4.7. Using Text Editor
5. Configuring IFPS to send gridded data to AvnFPS
6. Logging
7. Troubleshooting
7.1. Overall Server Health
7.2. Log Files
7.3. Data Ingest
7.4. Product Transmission
2. User's Guide
1. Startup Menu
2. TAF Monitoring
2.1. TAF Monitoring GUI, aka "AvnWatch"
2.2. Server Status Indicators
2.3. Transmission Queue
2.4. Menu Bar
2.5. Resource Editor
2.6. Editor and Product Selection Buttons
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
F. Writing AvnFPS TAF Edit Tools
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
F.1. Argument List Description
F.2. Description of the Tools in /toolpy directory
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