This presentation will describe and demonstrate the Aviation Digital Data Service being developed by NOAA FSL, NCAR RAP and NWS/NCEP AWC to provide aviation users with "one-stop shopping" for meteorological information in gridded, graphical and text formats. The variety of product formats enables ADDS to support a wide range of users including pilots and dispatchers, commercial flight planning systems, FAA automation systems, and weather vendors.
ADDS is being developed under the auspices of the FAA Product Development Team for the Aviation Gridded Forecast System (AGFS) with funds provided by the FAA Aviation Weather Research Program.
ADDS continues to evolve from the initial version, implemented at NCEP in February 1997, which provides meteorological observations and fine-resolution gridded analyses and forecasts to weather vendors (for value-adding), FAA automation systems, and commercial flight planning systems. Soon after the initial version was implemented, we began to receive requests to develop a capability to enable users such as pilots and dispatchers to access ADDS via their home and work computers. Enhancements we are making to ADDS result from these requests, an additional focus within the FAA to directly serve its customers, and rapid advances in Internet technology, communications, and software that facilitates user interactivity via remote access of data and applications.
This work will enable users to access (via the Internet) pre-generated and custom (i.e., route specific) graphics, and will also provide a mechanism for developers to obtain feedback from users regarding the utility and quality of experimental products.
The development of ADDS is benefitting from previous work by FSL to develop JAVA tools that enable users to access data and applications from remote computers. It is also benefitting from the highly-successful RAP Aviation Weather web page and previous work by RAP to enable the Aviation Weather Products Generator (AWPG) to generate horizontal and vertical cross sections of meteorological information along user-specified flight routes.
Note to Program Committee: The demonstration will require access to the Internet and capability to project the output from a PC