AWIPS Build Changes for Hydro

Here are some hydro-relevant AWIPS build updates:

Hazard Services Hydro Changes
- River Pro hazard generation discontinued
- Hydro HazSimo
  - Workstation will be setup for practice mode
  - Turnkey in May 2021
IBW changes
FFMP Basin table works again
ITOs and focal points
- FFMP broke previous build - new fix, can restore ARIs workaround

Hazard Services Hydrologic (IOC) - see Hazard Services VLab reference page for references
- New hazard generation software in AWIPS (Fig)
- Use it to issue all watch, warning, and advisory products for hydro
  - Replaces WarnGen hydro component, RiverPro, GHGH
- Only hydro in this build
  - Winter, Convective, Marine, etc will be progressively added over the next 2 years
- Lots of training
  - User and focal point online training (Link)
  - Focal Point residence workshops in at WDTD in Norman, OK
FFMP Basin Trend plots all hours independent of the time duration slider bar (Fig)

IBW Flash Flood (Fig)
- Turned off by default
- Coordinated date to turn on later in 2019 after after field test
MRMS Version 12
- New products and OCONUS expansion (Fig)
- LDAD feed first, SBN delayed
Flood Warnings issued in RiverPro now display in CAVE
1-3 Day excessive rainfall data displays (Fig)
FFMP VBG trace not backwards anymore (Fig)
Under the hood
- IBW Flash Flood WarnGen templates

Radar
- Dual-pol precip bias has N/A label (Fig)
Display regional flood advisories without issues (Fig)
Unrestricted Mesoscale Analysis (URMA)
- Hourly RFC Stage IV precipitation accumulation products added (Fig)

WarnGen
- Preset Threat Area button replaces Dam Break Threat Area (can be used for airport weather warnings, dam break and burn scar warnings)
- Cancelled polygons in local warnings display update correctly (Fig)

FFMP fixes
- VGB gauge overlay now properly labeled in basin trend overlay toggle
- FFG sometimes mapped to wrong basin fixed
- Focal Point can now filter VGBs from FFMP table for the numerous gauges that don't report precip (see "under the hood changes" below)
New baseline FLASH MRMS menu
- QPF products not anticipated for some time; SBN FLASH data distribution later in 2018
Under the hood changes
- VGB filtering in FFMPTemplateConfig.xml through localization perspective now fixed, e.g.:
  - <excludedVGBs>
    <vgb>AXA</vgb>
    </excludedVGBs>

Menus
- MRMS 5km CZ & RALA and FLASH
  - CZ/RALA SBN coming fall 2016, FLASH on SBN later but some may ingest through LDAD
Laps/MSAS at RFCs
- LAPS and MSAS are now running at RFCs.
FFMP Updating Multiple-RFC FFG Fix
- Starting in 16.2.1 in domains with multiple RFCs, when one updated, the others would incorrectly go missing. In 16.2.2 this was fixed, but the data incorrectly updated with older FFG. This is being fixed in 16.2.2 patch 2 which will roll out sometime during deployment of 16.2.2.

Dual-Pol DPR in FFMP Fixed
- DPR ingest in FFMP has been incorrect, but it is fixed after 16.2.1 patch 1 (note HPE mosaic has been Dual-Pol since 14.3.1 and has no problems).

mPING (new reference page and job sheet)
- The crowd-source mPING surface observations can be displayed in D2D if you configure the ingest through LDAD.

Dual-Pol HPE
- The mosaic precip source HPE was changed to use Dual-Pol DPR as input (instead of Legacy DHR) and special overlays were added to FFMP and the volume browser to display the source and biases used in Bias HPE. The original training to support this was the "Incorporating Dual-Pol HPE/Bias HPE Into Flash Flood Decision Making" module which also had an FFMP/HPE Reference PDF. This training has been updated and split into the following two modules:
  - High-Resolution Precipitation Estimator (HPE) and Bias HPE (LMS Training - Internet)
  - Flash Flood Warning Decision Making (LMS Training - Internet)
  - Reference PDF to be updated later.

For questions or comments about AWIPS build training, please contact Michael Magsig at WDTD.