Welcome

Welcome to the Office of the Chief Learning Officer (OCLO) Community! Currently, this public site requires no community subscription and is designed to facilitate NWS collaboration on training-related activities and hosting of quick-access reference materials in AWIPS for all of OCLO, including the:

  • Decision Support and Communications Services Division
  • Electronics and Information Technology Division
  • Forecast Decision Training Division
  • Leadership Academy
  • Warning Decision Training Division

This site hosts the following materials:

 

Important Upcoming AWIPS Build Deployments

20.3.2 (Summer 2022)

  • System upgrade to include Python 3 (big impact to local apps), JAVA upgrade to OpenJDK 11, and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI; video, slides, Q&A) virtual machines (DX/PX/CP changing to DV/PV/CPV)

21.4.1 (Late 2022/early 2023)

  • Routine build with lots of DR fixes
  • Hazard Services Non-Precipitation Weather (NPW) and winter weather WWA generation but not used until later in 2023
  • Backup Services GUI
  • Constant Altitude Planned Position Indicator (CAPPI) replacement for the Four-Dimensional Stormcell Investigator.

23.2.1 (2023)

  • Mostly bug fixes

23.4.1 (2023)

  • Redhat 8 

24.*.* (2024)

  • Hazard Services severe weather WWA and enhanced Hazard Services architecture

Useful AWIPS Links

OCLO AWIPS Builds Page 

AWIPS VLab community home page (VLab community request)

AWIPS SREC release planning

AWIPS Redmine DR tracking 

AWIPS Repo Source Code

RPG Status

VLab cloud tickets

AWIPS Interactive Reference Links

OCLO VLAB What's New

 

Custom color and filtering of contours in 20.2.3 deploying in summer 2021.

  • Added 20.2.3 AWIPS Build Training reference to AWIPS Builds page as extension of the AWIPS 20.2.3 Informational Overview training in the CLC. Also added jobsheets for custom contouring, Hazard Services hydro changes walk through, Hydro Hazard Simplification walk through, and IBW changes for SVR/TOR/SPS.
  • Added 19.3.1 AWIPS Build training references to AWIPS Builds page as extension of the AWIPS 19.3.1 Informational Overview training in the CLC. Also added Hazard Services references page for 19.3.1 Hazard Services training rollout.
  • Added 19.2.1 AWIPS Build training reference to AWIPS Builds page as extension of the AWIPS 19.2.1 Informational Overview training in the CLC
  • Added 18.2.1 AWIPS Build training reference to AWIPS Builds page as extension of the AWIPS 18.2.1 Informational Overview training in the CLC
  • Added 18.1.1 AWIPS Build training reference to AWIPS Builds page as extension of the AWIPS 18.1.1 Informational Overview training in the CLC
  • Added 17.3.1 AWIPS Build training reference to AWIPS Builds page as extension of the AWIPS 17.3.1 Informational Overview training in the CLC. 
  • Updated 17.2.1 AWIPS Fundamentals to 17.2.1 to support FY18 RAC (see RAC page) .
  • Added 17.2.1 AWIPS Build training reference to AWIPS Builds page as extension of the AWIPS 17.2.1 Informational Overview training in the CLC.
  • Added RAC references page with warning decision making references and procedures download page.
  • Added AWIPS Interactive Reference (AIR) Focal Point page to support AIR Contributor Training in the CLC.
  • Added 17.1.1 AWIPS Build training reference to AWIPS Builds page as extension of the AWIPS 17.1.1 Informational Overview training in the CLC.
  • Added 16.4.1 AWIPS Build training reference to AWIPS Builds page as extension of the AWIPS 16.4.1 Informational Overview training in the CLC.
    • includes forecaster training for the AWIPS Interactive Reference (AIR)
  • Added AWIPS Fundamentals menu at top of all OCLO web pages with AWIPS Fundamentals training applet in support of FY17 RAC. AWIPS Fundamentals contains web pages and job sheets to introduce the AWIPS fundamentals needed for convective warning decision making.

See previous updates in What's New Log.