Streamerrt (Version 5) User Guide

Severe Weather

WeatherBug Total Lightning

The user can operate the animate using the buttons on the legend bar. The animation can be pause, advanced forwards or backwards or jumped to the beginning or end. This area is also the place where selection of the animation duration is done. One and three hour animations can be selected.

The age of the lightning stroke or flash is color coded as indicated in the legend on the animation bar. As the animation is played, the strike colors will change as the lightning animation continues to move forward in time. An example of a three hour animation is shown below.

The user must be zoomed into zoom level 9, 10 or 11 to be able to access map-tip information on the strike. The map tip for lightning displays the location, time and amperage.

Tropical

The Tropical data is separated by Atlantic and Pacific Basin sub-menus. Basins allow for single storm viewing of “Active” and “Historical” plots. Current year historical track plots are now viewable.

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  AVNI (Interpolated Aviation Model)
  
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  BAMD (Beta and advection model; deep layer)
  
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  BAMM (Beta and advection model; medium layer)
  
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  CEMN (Canadian Ensemble Mean)
  
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  CLIP (Climatology and Persistence Model)
  
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  COAI (Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS) - Atlantic grid interpolated 06 hours)
  
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  DSHP (Statistical Hurricane Intensity Prediction Scheme (SHIPS) with inland decay)
  
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  GFDI (interpolated NWS Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Model)
  
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  LBAR (Limited Area Sine Transform Barotropic Model)
  
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  NGPI (Interpolated Navy Operational Global Prediction System)
  
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  OFCI (Interpolated Official National Hurricane Center Forecast)
  
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  XTRP (Extrapolated forecast of current track)
  

Views

Any view can be set as the ‘default’, which will result in that view getting loaded each time on login. In addition, a view can be selected as ‘Enable 6hr and 12hr animation’.

Views can be ordered by holding down the left mouse button and then dragging and dropping the view name into the desired order.

Upon initial creation of a view with 6 & 12 hour animation enabled, images will begin accumulating for the view at 15 minute intervals. The view must be defined 6 to 12 hours prior to accessing it for playing a complete 6 or 12 hour animation.

When enabling 6 & 12 hour animation for a view, all animate-able layers shall be available for the map extent defined in the view not just the layers that were selected at the time the view was saved.

Select View Button – View names are hot linked so you can quickly switch to a new custom view.



Select Create New View Button – Enter a new name for custom view to save the map extent and active layers.

Slideshow

When a weather data layer is enabled from the Data Menu, the data layer is displayed in the Data View Pane. The Data View Pane provides easy access for the user to view which data layers are displayed on the map and provides additional functions for that data. The Data View Pane can be expanded and collapsed by left clicking on the left edge of the window.

View Data Layer

The first checkbox entry allows the user to turn off a layer from the map, but keeps the data layer entry in the Data View Pane for easy access to turn on when needed.

View Legend

The Legend radio button allows the user to turn on legends for the applicable data layers. Only one legend can be displayed on the map at a time. The legend can be cleared by clicking on the selected radio button. The radio button will become unselected and any legend currently displayed on the map will be removed. If a data layer does not have a legend check box, then that particular data layer does not have a legend button.

Animate Data Layer

The Animate radio button will allow the user to animate one of the data layers in the data pane. Only one data layer can be animated on the map at a time. The animation can be stopped and cleared by clicking on the selected radio button. The radio button will become unselected and any animation currently displayed on the map will be removed. If a data layer does not have an animate button, then that particular data layer cannot be animated.

Animations can be selected for 1, 3, 6 or 12 hour periods. If a user moves the map from a 6 and 12 hour animation enabled custom view, the 6 and 12 hour animation feature will no longer be enabled. One and three hour animation, however, will be available on any map extent and view for all layers capable of animation.

While animating, the animation bar will display showing images for the user selected period of 1, 3, 6 or 12 hours. New images will automatically be added to the animation sequence.

Move Layer to Top

Each data layer in the data pane can be ordered by right clicking on the layer to be moved and dragging and dropping it into the order desired. Moving a data layer to the top of the list in the data pane will allow the map tips to be viewed for that layer.

Data Layer Update Time
Data layers will now show the time of the latest update performed in the image server. This update time will show in the individual data layer in the data pane. This includes the composite radar, lightning, points and contours.

Advanced Severe Weather Monitoring Platform

StreamerRT is designed to provide an advanced weather monitoring capability for numerous weather scenarios. The following examples show a few of the many severe weather monitoring configurations available:

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  Monitor severe storms with NWS and WeatherBug Protect Alerts.
  

Quickly visualize and identify areas of extreme heat or cold.

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  Monitor rainfall accumulation totals and identify areas with a Significant River Flood outlook.
  

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  Monitor Hurricane strength and position forecasts.
  

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