We are only 4 days away from beginning “Phase I” of the EWP2010 spring experiment. Phase I consists of our PAR and CASA experiments. We’ve had some successes over the past 2 weeks:

1. The PARISE shakedown on 4/6 went well with guest evaluators from the WFO OUN and the WDTB.
2. The WDSSII version of WarnGen is almost ready to go. It looks and feels a lot like AWIPS WarnGen.
3. The HWT AWIPS and ORPG have been upgraded. Bonus: CASA data are now displayable in AWIPS in the HWT!
4. The participant selections for all 9 weeks have been made and will be entered into the EWP Google Calendar.

We will be welcoming our first set of evaluators next week. They are:

CASA: Les Lemon (WDTB)
PAR: Mark Bacon (ILM); Jim Caruso (ICT); Jeff Cupo (FAATC-OKC); Mike Scotten (MEG)

One note:  do not expect to see many details on the blog during Phase I of EWP2010, unless there are real-time events in Central Oklahoma.  The evaluators will be going through a number of archive cases, and we don’t want to reveal details about those cases to participants who will be coming in future weeks.  In addition, the PAR experiment is being conducted as a social science experiment, and much of the data are considered confidential.

Greg Stumpf, EWP2010 Operations Coordinator