These notes cover the complete and total installation of all components of WHFS Version 2.1. Version 2.1 is not an incremental release. These notes assume that AWIPS Build 4.0 has been previously installed and that it preserves existing local configuration data such as RiverPro product templates and geographic map backgrounds.
(1) Dam Catalog Data for the entire U.S. is very large, encompassing 74,053 dams. Only a subset of this entire Dam Catalog is loaded for each site, depending on which states' dams are required by the site.
(2) A new dialog window (Cooperating Agencies/Offices) was added to edit and manage relationships between station locations and the offices of cooperating agencies. Previously, in HydroBase, users were only able to associate one U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office with a station location. User can now define and associate other types of agencies/offices with station locations and can associate more than one agency/office with a station location.
(3) A new dialog window (RiverPro General Parameters) was added to edit and manage some RiverPro parameters that were not previously available for editing. This included parameters such as the number of look-back hours for observed data and the default number of hours before product expiration.
(4) A new dialog window (RiverPro Forecast Groups/Points) allows the user to define forecast groups (as before) and to order the groups and their forecast points for tailoring the RiverPro display and generated products. This allows the user to choose the primary stage parameter for RiverPro to use for each forecast point.
(5) The Reservoir dialog window was enhanced so that a user can associate dams from the Dam Catalog with reservoirs. There is a new button at the top of the "Reservoir" dialog window. This button calls up a new dialog, Associate Reservoir, that allows the user to search the Dam Catalog for dams that might be associated with the reservoir in question. The search can be performed by using a lat/lon box or by using a name search. The search should yield a set of dams from the Dam Catalog, one of which ought to be the principal dam for the reservoir.
Currently, these two data sets (i.e., reservoir information and the Dam Catalog) are not related in the database because they originated separately. Reservoir information came from the SHIMS database and dam information came from the "National Inventory of Dams" CD-ROM. Future WHFS enhancements would like to relate these data sets. It would be very helpful if the WFO user can use this dialog to manually associate the proper principal dam with each reservoir (the Dam Catalog may show that more than one dam appears to be associated with a reservoir).
(6) The E-19 Report window was modified by adding the Staff Gage page and by making several changes suggested by field comments.
(1) Data for the Flash Flood Monitoring Function consists of county, zone, and basin Flash Flood Guidance and precipitation estimates from Stage I radar products, Stage II gage-only analyses, Stage II gage-radar analyses, and basin QPFs. The Stage I radar data are the one-hour accumulation Digital Precipitation Array (DPA) grids available each volume scan.
(2) Annotation of the river name was added in the left hand column display so that whenever a user selects a river station on the map, its name and river are displayed to help with geographic orientation.
(3) A new Color Choice dialog window was added so that the user can set thresholds and colors for the areal data plots such as radar grids, flash flood guidance, mean areal precipitation, and flash flood threat.
(4) A new dialog window, Station Forecasts, was added to allow the user to view all station forecast data from a tabular perspective. It is similar to the Station Observations dialog window.
(5) A new display, River Summary, was added. Display allows the user to choose a river or stream and then shows the user the current river stage at all stations along that river in the form of a modified staff gage. The display is oriented so that the horizontal line through the middle of the display is set to be the flood stage at all stations. The display allows the user to track a crest or flood wave down a river or stream in time. It does not attempt to show topography along the river.
(6) The ability to select and load city data into the database was added so that users can plot cities and landmarks on the HydroView map for their area of interest. The city table in the database is delivered empty. A national cities/landmarks file has been obtained from the AWIPS Modernization Systems Integration Group (MSIG) and put into WHFS format. Trim scripts have been provided to allow the user to trim this national data set by state or by lat/lon box. Instructions have been provided to guide the user through the process of trimming the data and loading it into the database. Please see the instructions at:
/awips/hydroapps/bld41docs/README_city_data_whfs21_bld41.txt
and at:
/awips/hydroapps/whfs/standard/doc/README_city_data_whfs21_bld 41.txt
(1) The Hourly Digital Precip (HDP) Decoder was modified to ingest all Digital Precipitation Array (DPA) products, not just the top-of-the-hour HDP product. The Decoder now stores all DPA adaptation parameters.
(2) Input data flow and processing of DPA/HDP Stage 1 radar products has been revised due to the switch from AFOS inflow to SBN inflow. The mechanism to process incoming DPA/HDP products has been patterned after the SHEF Decoder mechanism. There is now a new UNIX script called process_dpafiles that runs continuously in a manner similar to the SHEF Decoder. This script monitors a directory that receives DPA/HDP products from the WFO-Advanced SBN data ingest process. This script calls another script, process_dpa, which initiates the HDP Decoder and other processing steps required by WHFS on the arrival of the DPA/HDP product. The process_dpafiles script is started and stopped by start and stop scripts in the same way as the SHEF Decoder. They are named start_process_dpafiles and stop_process_dpafiles respectively.
All of these new DPA processing scripts reside in the /awips/hydroapps/whfs/standard/bin/ directory.
Changes to the /awips/hydroapps/.Apps_defaults file were required for this new data processing scheme.
Three existing .Apps_defaults tokens were re-defined as:
One new .Apps_defaults token was added as:
(1) Input data flow and processing of SHEF products has been revised due to the switch from AFOS inflow to SBN inflow. The SHEF Decoder now looks for incoming products in a directory being filled by the WFO-Advanced SBN data ingest process. This required a change to the /awips/hydroapps/.Apps_defaults file. An existing token was re-defined as: