Current Research Projects

LAPS Data Ingest

• Surface Obs
• Profiler / RASS
• ACARS / Pireps
• Satellite Soundings / Cloud Drift Winds
• RAOBs
• Wide-band Doppler Radar (RRV project)
• Topography & Map projections (Static file)

LAPS Analyses

• Surface
• Wind
  • Weighting Strategy
• Temperature / Height
• Clouds / Precip
• Derived fields (e.g. stability)
• Analysis summary for 2001 LAPS Review HTML or PPT
• Science Seminar (originally given April 2002, then updated): The Fusion of Radar Data and Satellite Imagery with other information in the LAPS analyses.
• 2005 LAPS Review (RSA)

Regional Radar Volume Project

• Polar-to-Cartesian Radar Remapping & Mosaicing (with embedded QC)

LAPS Implementation

• Software build enhancements
  • Periodic Automated Multi-platform builds
• WWW analysis displays
  • Product Request Page
• Taiwan
• WIAP (jet)