EFT GFESuite Publications

Note: Many of these documents and papers are now quite dated and reflect papers from the early days of GFESuite, when it was called AFPS.

User Documentation Papers Presentations Quarterly Reports Newsletter Related Documents

User Documentation

An old training guide for the GFE, showing the GFE as it existed around the 1997-era is here.

Papers

The following publications are ordered by date, most recent first.
  • The Rapid Prototype Project: In this paper, we discuss the rapid development process used by the GFESuite team consisting of frequent software releases and interaction directly with field users of the software. (Feb 2003)
      LeFebvre, T., M. Mathewson, and T. Hansen, 2003: The Rapid Prototype Project. 19th Int. Conf. on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Long Beach, CA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., CD-ROM, 12.4.
  • Initializing gridded fields from numerical models: This paper describes how "smart initialization" is used to derive basic sensible weather fields from the numerical models. (Jan 2002)
      LeFebvre, T., M. Romberg, T. Hansen, 2002: Initializing gridded fields from numerical models. Interactive Symp. on the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS), Orlando, FL, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 41-45.
  • Forecast Methodology using the GFESuite: This paper discusses the forecast methodology used on the GFESuite grid-based forecast preparation system. (Jan 2001)
      Hansen, T., M. Mathewson, T.J. LeFebvre, and M. Romberg, 2001: Forecast meteorology using the GFESuite. 17th Int. Conf. on Interactive Information and Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Albuquerque, NM, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 42-46.
  • Injecting Meteorology into the GFESuite: This paper discusses the techniques using smart tools to inject meteorology into the grid-based forecast preparation system. (Jan 2001)
      LeFebvre, T.J., M. Mathewson, T. Hansen, and M. Romberg, 2001: Injecting meteorology into the GFE Suite. 17th Int. Conf. on Interactive Information and Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Albuquerque, NM, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 38-41.
  • FSL Forum: The Interactive Forecast Preparation System (December 2000). This FSL Forum issue contained nine articles about the IFPS and GFESuite.
  • Grid editing for the Interactive Forecast Preparation System:: This paper discusses the grid editing component, called GFESuite, of the IFPS. (Jan 98).
      Wier, S., M. Mathewson, and T.J. LeFebvre, 1998: Grid editing for the Interactive Forecast Preparation System. 14th Int. Conf. on Interactive Information and Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Phoenix, AZ, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 469-473.
  • Gridded Forecast Products and Services Under Development at FSL: In this paper, we discuss the potential products and services that a grid-based forecast offers. In addition, we present some examples of these products and services developed at FSL (Aug 96).
      LeFebvre, T. J., Corby A. Bacco, and M. Romberg, 1996: Gridded forecast products and services under development at FSL. 15th Conf. on Weather Analysis and Forecasting, Norfolk, VA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 473-476.
  • AFPS Level 2b Specifications: Specifications document for the next revision (level 2b) of the AFPS system (updated May 96). Internal design document.
  • Using the AWIPS Forecast Preparation System (AFPS): An updated overview of AFPS (Jan 96).
  • Using Numerical Model Output to Provide Initial Forecasts of Surface Weather for the AFPS: This paper how AFPS uses numerical model output with algorithms to derive sensible weather element grids, which are then edited by the forecaster. (Jan 96).
      Wier, S. K., and J. S. Wakefield, 1996: Using numerical model output to provide initial forecasts of surface weather for the AFPS. 12th Int. Conf. on Interactive Information and Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Atlanta, GA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 176-179.
  • Operational Forecasting With AFPS: This paper is divided into two parts. The first discusses the AFPS concept by describing a typical NWS operational scenario. The second part describes many of the AFPS edit tools and how they manipulate gridded forecast data (Jan 95).
      LeFebvre, T. J., 1995: Operational forecasting with AFPS. 11th Int. Conf. on Interactive Information and Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Dallas, TX, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 249-254.
  • Interpolating Between Grids of Meteorological Data for AFPS: This paper discusses some early ideas about interpolation - automatic generation of grids of weather elements needed for text generation but missing from the times provided by numerical forecast models (Jan 95).
      Wier, S. K., 1995: Interpolating between grids of meteorological data for AFPS. 11th Int. Conf. on Interactive Information and Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Dallas, TX, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 255-259.
  • "The Yellow Book": A concept document which describes the general plan for AFPS (Jul 93).
  • Data Requirements and Definitions: AWIPS Forecast Preparation System: Describes in detail the data requirements for AFPS (Jun 93). Internal design document.

Presentations

Quarterly Reports

Quarterly reports were issued in the early years of the project.

AFPS Newsletter

AFPS Newsletters were issued in the early years of the project as a means to inform AFWG (AFPS Forecaster Working Group) members of new developments.

Related Documents

Last modified: Sat Nov 01 08:00:00 MST 2003