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The purpose of this community is to facilitate feedback and discussion on the RTMA/URMA system. 

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December 2017 Implementation Summary

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Overview of upgrade scheduled for December 2017. Note that this was originally scheduled for October 2017, but has been pushed back due to technical issues.

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New Stations for the URMA

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Ryan Leach, modified 1 Year ago.

New Stations for the URMA

Youngling Posts: 18 Join Date: 1/19/16 Recent Posts

There's some stations that our avalanche partners set up a while ago with meso-west ID's SPRMT and LKMMT and it doesn't look like they've made it into URMA yet.

 

Is there a form somewhere I should be filling out to get these added, or this the best way to request stations to be added?

 

Should they get added automatically through some process?

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Matthew Morris, modified 1 Year ago.

RE: New Stations for the URMA

Youngling Posts: 156 Join Date: 12/6/17 Recent Posts
Hi Ryan,

We reached out to MesoWest and they were able to get the stations added to their feed.  We are now using observations from both stations, beginning with today's 00Z URMA.

In the future, you can either send the station IDs though the VLab forum or use the RTMA/URMA Station QC form.  On the Google form, there is an option to select "Ob is valid, not used"; you can select this and leave a comment letting us know this is for a new station.

Thanks,
Matt

On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 3:51 PM VLab Notifications <VLab.Notifications@noaa.gov> wrote:

There's some stations that our avalanche partners set up a while ago with meso-west ID's SPRMT and LKMMT and it doesn't look like they've made it into URMA yet.

 

Is there a form somewhere I should be filling out to get these added, or this the best way to request stations to be added?

 

Should they get added automatically through some process?


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  • 2011 RTMA Paper (Weather and Forecasting)

    The most recent peer-reviewed paper on the RTMA. Published in Weather and Forecasting in 2011.
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  • Public RTMA/URMA Viewer

    Another viewer of the current RTMA/URMA, with an archive going back 24 hours. This version is open to the public, but does not contain information about the (many) restricted obs used.
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  • RAP downscaling conference preprint (23rd IIPS)

    This link is to a presentation from the (then) RUC group on how the downscaling process works. Although we now use the RAP, HRRR, and NAM, the logic of the downscaling code is mostly unchanged from this point.
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