We will briefly introduce the main GFE components in
the following sections. To learn more about the Grid Manager,
Spatial
Editor, or Temporal Editor components, go to the section with the same
title.
Menu Bar -
Loads/Unloads
weather elements, saves/reverts grids, interpolates grids, populates
weather
elements from model. Many other functions are available from the Menu
Bar
as well.
ButtonBar -
Controls
GridManager time scale, animation, edit tools, and edit areas.
TimeScale - Displays
time for both Grid Manager and Temporal Editor.
Grid Manager - Displays grid
inventory,
edits grid times, temporally interpolates, copies grids from other
databases,
creates grids from scratch, displays grid history.
Spatial Editor -
Displays and edits one or more grids.
Temporal Editor -
(not shown) Displays and edits time series of weather elements at a
point
or area. This area is shared with the GridManager.
AlertViz - Displays status messages.
In AWIPS2 AlertViz is used to display alert messages for all AWIPS components.
There are actually two status bars. In GFE, the left one is for general messages,
and the right one is for Intersite Coordination and Smart Initialization
messages.