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content="Mozilla/4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-27.7.xsmp i686) [Netscape]">
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<meta name="Author" content="Mark Mathewson">
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<title>GFESuite Documentation</title>
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<body style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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<h1 class="3Heading">Smart Tools and Procedures<br>
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</h1>
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</center>
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<div class="3Heading">This section of the reference manual describes
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each of the baselined smart tools and procedures that are provided with
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the GFE.<br>
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<a href="#methods">Hazard and Watch Methodology</a><br>
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<a href="#hazardprocs">Hazard Procedures</a><br>
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<a href="#isc">ISC Tools</a><br>
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<a href="#TropicalCycloneTools">Tropical Cyclone Tools</a><br>
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<a href="#WeatherElementIntegrityTools">Weather Element Integrity Tools</a><br>
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<br>
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<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><br>
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<br>
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<big><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span
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style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="methods"></a>Hazard and Watch
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Methodology<br>
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</span></span></big>
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<table
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style="width: 70%; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(33, 206, 211);"
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border="2" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
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<tbody>
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<td style="background-color: rgb(33, 206, 211);"><a
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href="Hazard_Methodology.html">Hazard Grid Methodology</a></td>
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<td>This document describes the use
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of the GFE with the hazard procedures. It discusses the
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separation
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of hazards into temporary weather elements, making new hazards, and
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merging the hazards back into the Hazards grid. </td>
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</tr>
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<td><a href="SPC_Watch_Methodology.html">SPC Watch Methodology</a></td>
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<td>This document describes the use
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of the GFE with the SPC Watch techniques. It discusses the
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initial WCL coordination message, the receipt and plotting of the WOU,
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and the generation of the WCN using the GFE formatters.</td>
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</tr>
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</tbody>
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</table>
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<big><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span
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style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
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<a name="hazardprocs"></a>Hazard Procedures<br>
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</span></span></big>
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<table
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style="width: 70%; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(239, 208, 188);"
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border="2" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
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<tbody>
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<tr>
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<td> <a href="PlotSPCWatches.html">PlotSPCWatches</a></td>
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<td>This procedure is used to modify
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your Hazards grid based on the incoming WOU coordination message from
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the Storm Prediction Center. The user can choose which watches to add
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or remove.</td>
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</tr>
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<td><a href="ViewWCL.html">ViewWCL</a></td>
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<td><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>This
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procedure allows an office to view the WCL product, and use it for
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watch coordination with SPC.<br>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<td><a href="PlotTPCEvents.html">PlotTPCEvents</a></td>
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<td>This procedure allows an office to plot tropical hazards as
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outlined in the TCV product issued by the Tropical Prediction Center.<br>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><a href="SeparateHazards.html">SeparateHazards</a></td>
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<td>This procedure allows an office to separate Hazard grids into
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their individual elements, which is useful for editing in complex
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situations.<br>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><a href="MergeHazards.html">MergeHazards</a></td>
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<td>This procedure allow separated hazard grids to be merged back
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into the forecast Hazard grid.<br>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<td><a href="MakeHazard.html">MakeHazard</a></td>
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<td>This procedure is allows the creation and editing of all
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hazards in GFE.<br>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><a href="HazardRecovery.html">HazardRecovery</a></td>
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<td>This procedure, only used in extreme situations, allows all
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hazards to be recovered from the internal VTEC active table. Used if
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Hazard grid becomes badly corrupted, and no official database exists. <br>
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</td>
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</tr>
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</tbody>
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</table>
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<big><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span
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style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
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<a name="isc"></a>ISC Tools<br>
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</span></span></big>
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<table
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style="width: 70%; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 204, 204);"
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border="2" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
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<tbody>
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<tr>
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<td><a href="ShowISC.html">Show_ISC_Area<br>
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Show_ISC_Grid<br>
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Show_ISC_Info<br>
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Show_ISC_Highlights</a></td>
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<td>This set of tools provide
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discrepancy checking for ISC grids. This set is the baseline
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version of Tim Barker's (SOO - BOI) set of ShowISC tools.</td>
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</tr>
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</tbody>
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</table>
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<br>
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<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><a
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name="TropicalCycloneTools"></a>Tropical Cyclone Tools</span><br>
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<table style="text-align: left; width: 903px; height: 52px;" border="1"
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cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
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<tbody>
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<td
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><a
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href="TCMWindTool.html">TCMWindTool</a><br>
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</td>
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<td
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">This
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procedure decodes a TCM bulletin and makes GFE wind grids derived from
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it.<br>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<td
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><a
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href="GenerateCyclone.html">GenerateCyclone</a><br>
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">This
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procedure is intended to be used for Tropical Depressions, but can be
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used to make any cyclonic wind field.<br>
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</td>
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</tr>
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</tbody>
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</table>
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<br>
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<br style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">
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<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><a
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name="WeatherElementIntegrityTools"></a>Weather Element Integrity Tools</span><br>
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<table style="text-align: left; width: 930px; height: 28px;" border="1"
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cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
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<tbody>
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<td
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"><a
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href="CheckTandTd.html">CheckTandTd</a> <br>
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</td>
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<td
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Check
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MinT, MaxT, T and Td to ensure inter-element integrity. Checks T
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against MinT and maxT and checks Td against T.<br>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<td
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"><a
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href="ModelBlend.html">ModelBlend</a> <br>
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Combine model grids and forecast
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grids in simple averages, nudging toward a model solution, or in complex weighted averages
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or extrapolations.<br>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"><a
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href="CopyFromModel.html">CopyFromModel</a> <br>
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</td>
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Numeric tool that copies a
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grid from a specified model - only in the active edit area - and possibly time-shifting the
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model data.<br>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<td
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"><a
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href="Adjust.html">Adjust</a> <br>
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Performs basic math functions
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like add, subtract, multiply and divide on a grid. Allows options related to elevation
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and edit areas. You can combine these options in a variety of ways.<br>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<td
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"><a
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href="Enhanced_Wx.html">Enhanced_Wx</a> <br>
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</td>
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">An enhancement to the original
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Wx_SmartTool. Both tools assign Wx based on the corresponding PoP grids, but Enhanced_Wx has
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some additional functionality.<br>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<td
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"><a
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href="LimitValues.html">LimitValues</a> <br>
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</td>
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Clips grid values
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at limits that you specify.<br>
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</td>
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<td
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"><a
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href="RemoveWx.html">RemoveWx</a> <br>
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</td>
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Allows removal of
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"pieces" of weather from complex combinations of weather.<br>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<td
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"><a
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href="ERQCcheck.html">ERQCcheck</a> <br>
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</td>
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Allows the user to cross
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check elements against one another to assure consistency. Where inconsistencies are found,
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the forecaster has the option to either just see where the inconsistencies are, or have
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one element or the other forced so that they are consistent. It also includes a routine
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that check for the existence of grids required for NDFD.<br>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<td
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"><a
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href="Extrapolate.html">Extrapolate</a> <br>
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</td>
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<td
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Allows to linearly
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extrapolate features in time.<br>
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</td>
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<td
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"><a
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href="Align_Grids.html">Align_Grids</a> <br>
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</td>
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<td
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Aligns the time breaks
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of selected weather elements to match the time breaks of the individual grids of a
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"source" element.<br>
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</td>
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<td
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"><a
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href="Populate_SkyProcedure.html">Populate_SkyProcedure</a> <br>
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</td>
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<td
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Populates the GFE Sky_Cover
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grids based on an algorithm that finds the maximum model-layer relative humidity (RH),
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and then applies an exponential relationship to convert RH to sky cover at each grid point.<br>
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</td>
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<td
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"><a
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href="Collaborate_PoP_SnowAmt_QPF.html">Collaborate_PoP_SnowAmt_QPF</a> <br>
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</td>
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Creates fixed 12-hour PoP
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(PoP12hr), 6-hour SnowAmt (SnowAmt6hr), and 6-hour QPF (QPF6hr) grids based on the values
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contained in the floating PoP, SnowAmt, and QPF grids. These new grids may then be used
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for the purposes of intersite coordination as well as web graphic generation.<br>
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</td>
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"><a
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href="NDFD_QPF_Checks.html">NDFD_QPF_Checks</a> <br>
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<td
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Performs checks to ensure
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the five NDFD QPF related parameter consistency requirements are met.<br>
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</td>
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<td
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"><a
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href="CarSnowAmt.html">CarSnowAmt</a> <br>
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</td>
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<td
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style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Uses upper level temperatures,
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vertical motion, and relative humidity to calculate a snowratio.<br>
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</table>
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