This page provides easy access to WDTB's RPG Build training material.

RPG Updates

1. RDA/RPG Build 10.0 Web page (deployed Spring 2008).
1. Super Resolution base data and products
2. Recombination Algorithm
3. Numerous RPG HCI changes
4. Enhanced version of VCP 121
5. Bias Value Source added to PPS products
6. Threshold number of gage radar pairs URC editable
2. RDA/RPG Build 9.0 Web page (deployed Summer 2007).
1. RPG Refresh
2. RPG Human Computer Interface (HCI) Window Changes
3. RPG Impacts of Increase in Clutter Filtering Elevation Segments at the RDA
4. Using the SZ-2 Volume Coverage Patterns (VCP)s
5. RPG Ingest of Environmental Data from AWIPS
6. Changes to Mesocyclone Detection Algorithm (MDA)
7. Snow Accumulation Algorithm (SAA) Adaptable Parameter Changes
8. Machine Intelligent Gust Front Algorithm (MIGFA)
9. Generation of Cross Sections in VCP 121
10. VCP Change or Download Anytime During a Volume Scan
11. Fix to 1^o Radial on Rain and Snow Products
3. ORDA/RPG Build 8.0 Web page (deployed Spring 2006).
   Impacts at RPG:
1. Mode Selection Function (MSF)
2. New design for filtering RPG Status Messages
3. Storm Cell Identification and Tracking (SCIT) Reflectivity data filter
4. MDA updates and fixes
5. PPS updates and fixes
6. Fix to allow VMI change while in VCP 121
7. RPG/Users communication changes
8. RPG System Status Log product
4. RPG 7.0 Web page (deployed Summer 2005).
1. Increase in RPS List size
2. Improvements to the AWIPS Wide Area Network OTR process
3. Changes to VCP 121
4. Bypass Map no longer editable
5. Color coding for Auto PRF and VAD Update more consistent
6. Default storm motion and hail temperature heights no longer editable at Algorithms window
7. Corrections to MDA processing
5. RPG 6.1 Web page (deployed Spring 2005).
1. Change to support NCEP operations
6. RPG 6.0 Web page (deployed Fall 2004).
1. Adaptable parameter design change
2. Snow Accumulations Algorithm (SAA)
3. Mesocyclone Detection Algorithm (MDA), Phase 2
4. Change to lowest LRM product
5. Option to reset precipitation accumulations
6. Changes to support real-time Level II data collection
7. Correction to Gage Bias Table ingest
8. Compression of DR, DV, and DHR products
9. Parameter change to EET product
10. MPDA adaptable parameters and EPRE exclusion zones
11. Build 6 actions
7. RPG 5.0 Web page (deployed Spring 2004).
1. New "Deep Convection" VCP: VCP 12
2. Multiple PRF Dealiasing Algorithm (MPDA)
3. Enhanced Precipitation Preprocessing Algorithm (EPRE)
4. Mesocyclone Detection Algorithm (MDA), Phase 1
5. Tornado Detection Algorithm Rapid Update (TRU)
6. Changes to support real-time Level II data collection
7. Communications upgrades
8. Changes to the product distribution/comms window
8. RPG 4.0 Web page (deployed Fall 2003).
1. MRU algorithm
2. Changes to the RPG product generation table
3. Enhanced Echo Tops
4. The removal of several legacy products
5. PPS corrections of truncation errors and allowing for the faster update rates of new VCPs
9. RPG 3.0 Web page (deployed Spring 2003).
1. The new hodograph product from the WSR-88D VWP data
2. User Selectable LRM (ULR) product
3. Implementation of the blockage algorithm
4. Digital Storm-Total Precipitation (DSP) product
5. Data quality assurance algorithm and improvements to the high resolution radial based VIL algorithm
6. Improvements to the RPG HCI system status task
7. Corrections to "residuals" in hourly-based precipitation products
8. Corrections to the generation of the CLR and CLD
10. RPG 2.0 VISITview session (deployed Fall 2002).
11. RPG 1.2 Web page.
12. RPG 1.0 Web page.