Loading Weather Elements Training</titile> </head> <body> <font color="#3333FF"><font size=+2>Loading Weather Elements</font></font> <br><font color="#3333FF"><font size=+2></font></font> <p><a NAME="LoadTemps"></a><font color="#3333FF"><font size=+2>Load the temperatures, dew points and winds from each of the short and medium range models into the Grid Manager.</font></font> <p><font color="#000000">You will need to use the <a href="MainMenuDialogs.html#WEBrowserDialog">Weather Element Browser</a> to do this. Open the <a href="MainMenuDialogs.html#WEBrowserDialog">Weather Element Browser</a> from the Main Menu: </font><font color="#FF0000">Weather Element->Weather Element Browser...</font><font color="#000000"> In the column labelled "</font><font color="#FF0000">Source</font><font color="#000000">" select each of the short and medium range models (e.g., NAM12, GFS80). Next, in the column labelled "Field" select "</font><font color="#FF0000">T</font><font color="#000000">", "</font><font color="#FF0000">Td</font><font color="#000000">", and "</font><font color="#FF0000">Wind</font><font color="#000000">". From the third column, select the "</font><font color="#FF0000">Misc</font><font color="#000000">" menu and select "</font><font color="#FF0000">SFC</font><font color="#000000">". Finally select the "</font><font color="#FF0000">Load and Dismiss</font><font color="#000000">" button located at the bottom-left of the dialog. The GFE will load T, Td and Wind from each the models that you selected.</font> <p><a NAME="LoadFireWx"></a><font color="#3333FF"><font size=+2>Load all of the Fire Weather parameters into the Grid Manager.</font></font><font color="#3333FF"><font size=+2></font></font> <p><font color="#330000">There are several ways to load the Fire Weather elements into the GFE. You could use the Weather Element Browser as in the last exercise, but that might be somewhat tedious. The quickest way to accomplish this is to load the <a href="GFETrainingGridMgr.html#Load/UnloadWEsviaWEGroups">Weather Element Group</a> that corresponds to the Fire Weather elements into the GFE. To load a Weather Element Group, from the Main Menu select the item </font><font color="#FF0000">Weather Element->Weather Element Groups->FireWx</font><font color="#330000">. The GFE will then load those elements used for Fire Weather forecasts.</font> <p><a NAME="LoadPublicWEs"></a><font color="#3333FF"><font size=+2>Load all of the Public weather parameters into the Grid Manager.</font></font><font color="#3333FF"><font size=+2></font></font> <p><font color="#330000">Loading the Public Weather elements is most easily accomplished by selecting from the Main Menu: </font><font color="#FF0000">Weather Element->Weather Element Groups->Public</font><font color="#330000">. See the section on <a href="GFETrainingGridMgr.html#Load/UnloadWEsviaWEGroups">Loading Weather Element Groups</a> for more information.</font> <p><a NAME="CreateNewWEGroup"></a><font color="#3333FF"><font size=+2>Create a new Weather Element Group that contains QPF, Wx, Sky, and SnowAmt</font></font><a href="GFETrainingGridMgr.html#CreateanewWeatherElementGroup"></a> <p><a href="GFETrainingGridMgr.html#CreateanewWeatherElementGroup">Creating a new Weather Element Group</a> is done via the <a href="MainMenuDialogs.html#WEBrowserDialog">Weather Element Browser</a>. First you use the Browser to define the set of weather elements and then assign the set a name. Start by displaying the Weather Element Browser by selecting from the Main Menu: <font color="#FF0000">Weather Element->Weather Element Browser</font>. Then from Source select <font color="#FF0000">Fcst</font>, from Field select the items <font color="#FF0000">QPF, Sky, and SnowAmt</font>, and from Planes select <font color="#FF0000">SFC</font>. Now still in the Weather Element Browser select <font color="#FF0000">File->Save Weather Element Group</font>. Enter a name and select <font color="#FF0000">Save</font>. Now you can close the Weather Element Dialog. From the GFE Main Menu, select <font color="#FF0000">Weather Element->Weather Element Groups</font>. You should see your newly created Weather Element Group in that list. </body> </html>