MRMS Products Guide - Warning Decision Training Division (WDTD)
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- VIL Density
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Products Guide
MRMS Products Guide
This guide is a webpage library of MRMS products categorized into collapsible left menu groups ranging from reflectivity to derived severe weather and precipitation. By clicking on a product, a user can find overview information, strengths and limitations, and applications (including examples). Each product page contains the following format:
- Overview:
- Short Description - the nature of the product
- Sub Products - all products sharing the same title category
- Primary Users - users expected to benefit from this product
- Input Sources - important sources needed to generate this product
- Resolution - important parameters of spatial resolution
- Technical Details - latest update; where the product is accessible
- Product Creation - short description of how the product is generated
- References - most important technical literature on this product
- Strengths and Limitations:
- Strengths - advantages of this product
- Limitations - disadvantages of this product
- Quality Control - a short description of steps to improve the quality of this product
- Applications and Examples - A page describing how this product is useful while also showing example images
Check out all the MRMS products on the MRMS Operational Product Viewer, courtesy of the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory.
If you have any questions or comments regarding this Products Guide, please contact WDTD's MRMS training team at nws.wdtd.mrms@noaa.gov.