Andy wrote a very detailed and illustrated summary of his visit to the EWP.  It is available here:

ftp://24.172.201.242/ewp_review_hatzos.pdf

Aside from the above, he added a few more quick items:

1) I struggled a bit on the mesoscale desk, and a part of that was finding that my data-heavy AWIPS I procedures (which work fine here) were almost unloadable on AWIPS II. Because of that, I had to simplify and rebuild a bunch of things on the fly. For next year’s experiment, it may be worth asking participants to create their procedures in advance on an AWIPS II system (ADAM) before sending them on to Oklahoma. That way, they could know for sure that what they’re sending works alright on AWIPS II.

2) The GOES RGB Airmass product sort of seemed to get forgotten about to an extent. I don’t recall seeing it in the training presentations (though we had a WES case on it) and it wasn’t emphasized heavily at the EWP. I’d love to see this covered a bit more next year, on the same level as some of the other GOES-R Proving Ground products. The RGB Airmass is admittedly difficult to interpret, but rather interesting to try to use, once you get an idea of what you’re looking for. I definitely think it’s worth a closer look.

Finally, I just wanted to say thanks again for the invitation to attend. I really enjoyed the week and I hope I was able to help make some progress toward everything the EWP was working for.

Andy Hatzos
General Forecaster
NWS Wilmington OH
2013 Week 2 Evaluator