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PCU 4: Collaboration Instructional Component 4.1 Student Guide for Collaboration in the NDFD Era Paul Howerton and Shannon White
1) Introduction The material in this session is designed to provide local office staff with an understanding of the collaborative process in the National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) era. The process involves the use of various tools in collaborating the meteorology and resulting grids among neighboring offices. The influences and obstacles impacting collaboration will be shared along with lessons learned during the NDFD prototype last year. Paul Howerton, senior forecaster at Wichita, KS, and Shannon White, IFPS training team, are the instructors for this lesson. This training is offered to help office staff better understand collaboration and its impact on the forecast process as well as the credibility of the NWS NDFD forecasts.
3) Training Registration/Installation Instructions A) Select from Dates:
B) Register by e-mail to Shannon.White@noaa.gov Other dates may be scheduled based on interest and participation. Offices from any region may register for any date/time that is convenient. A recorded version of the presentation will be available in the near future from this website.
The VISITview installation instructions are included below: ===================================================================== In order to install this presentation, you will need to create a new directory on your hard drive, download a self-extracting, compressed fileinto this directory, and then run this file in order to extract the data and program files. I. To get and install the VISITview files on a Windows system: Create a directory on your computer to hold this lesson. For example,
open a Command Prompt window and type: Get the file (it is about 24 MB in size) by aiming your Web browser
to the FSL anonymous http server <http://www-md.fsl.noaa.gov/IFPS/audio/collaboration080503.exe> Be sure to put this file into the same directory that you created in step 1. To extract all the image, audio and program files, just run the collaboration080503.exe
file by either: opening My Computer or the Windows Explorer and clicking
on the filename II. This completes the installation. To test your installation, list the files in the directory that you created above and run the visitlocal.bat file by clicking on it. This will use your computer as a local server and allow you to preview the slides. To listen to the recorded session: click on the visitauto.bat or visitplay.bat filename from My Computer or Windows Explorer. Alternatively, you could open a Command Prompt window, and type: cd \visit\collab then visitauto A ViewClient window should appear with playback controls below in a second, smaller window. Just click on the Next button on the control window and the session will begin. It will play through the end or until you press Stop. You can resume at another time by clicking on the slide number you left off on. The whole session lasts just over an hour.
Talking Points - Word Perfect format or Plain Text (for use with Netscape) 5) Information Contacts Shannon White, Shannon.White@noaa.gov (301) 713-0280 x125
Sam Beckman, Sam.Beckman@noaa.gov (816) 880-9368 x 238 Brian Motta, brian.motta@noaa.gov (303) 497-6561 |
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