Barnes Analysis, Number 30
Abstract
In your weather training, you've spent time learning how to hand plot and analyze surface and upper air charts. Some of that time-consuming, often tedious work, was lessened with the addition of the Automated Weather Distribution System (AWDS) and its Formatted Binary Data (FBD). Even with AWDS, however, the automated analysis charts still required a manual adjustment (reanalysis), so contour positions best matched the observations from FBD plots. With AWDS 3.2, the software routine that automatically analyzes the data is greatly improved in both speed and accuracy. You can now use a new Objective Analysis (OA) program called Barnes Analysis. This series of OA programs provides a better and more accurate match of contours to FBD observations than in the past. We say a 'series of programs' because Barnes OA is composed of many different types of anlaysis options-almost all are operator selectable! You can pick and choose which type(s) of analysis program to use for any particular data set. The bottom line is that YOU control which type of OA program AWDS will use to generate products! There's lot of new information to digest when learning about Barnes OA techniques on AWDS. It may seem overwhelming at first that so many different options are available when you generate a contour product on AWDS. Our goal in this publication is to present an overview on the concepts and basic use of the new Barnes OA. It's a way to get your started using the new Barnes techniques and to hopefully make you feel comfortable in using this improved AWDS capability.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1996
- Accession Number
- ADA286904