ENI Display

My 2 cents on the ENI AWIPS display. I found the data available via ENI was too overwhelming along with a cluttered display. The list on the right shows all the options available to look at and it becomes too much to ingest. I suppose with training and experience it may be a little more intuitive but not initially. Polygons shift direction rapidly with different storm directions, there is a listing for each DTA rate, a polygon for each cell along with flash rates for the cells. Add in the different obs plots for pulse, flash, cloud to ground. It gets very confusing. Granted this is new, but many off our staff also found this confusing when we recently had it installed with our AWIPS2 build. When information becomes too cluttered and confused it tends to get disregarded and not used in Ops.  Consolidation of the DTA Rates into one item with changing colors would be beneficial, same as with the alerts.  I think the cloud flashes are better represented as circles and not dots as it is shown on this workstation.

–Cattywampus. ENI_Plot

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