• Introduction
• Objectives
• System Requirements
• 1. Radar Data Acquisition
  (RDA) Unit
  • Introduction
  • Transmitter
  • Antenna
    • Overview
    • Volume Coverage Pattern
      (VCP)
    • Long Pulse vs. Short Pulse
    • Operational Modes
    • AVSET
  • Receiver
  • Signal Processor
    • Overview
    • Ground Clutter Suppression
    • Calculation of Base Data
    • Range Unfolding of Doppler
      Data
    • Archive Level I
  • Keyboard Video Mouse (KVM)
    and Monitor Interface
• 2. Wideband
  Communications
  • Introduction
  • Direct Wire Link
  • Private T1
  • Telco (Commercial) T1
  • Microwave Line-Of-Site
    (MLOS)
• 3. Radar Product Generator
  (RPG)
  • Introduction
  • Product Generation
  • RPG Control
  • Product Distribution
    • Overview
    • Archive II Data Distribution
      System
    • Archive Level III
• 4. Master System Control
  Function (MSCF)
  • Introduction
  • The RDA HCI at the MSCF
  • The RPG HCI at the MSCF
    • Overview
    • RDA Changes Initiated at
      the RPG HCI
    • Optimizing Data Quality
    • Status Monitoring
    • Free Text Messages
    • Product Distribution
      Communications
• 5. Product Distribution
  Communications
• 6. User Systems
  • Introduction
  • Principal Users
  • Other Users
    • Overview
    • Archive II Data Distribution
      System
    • Radar Product Central
      Collection/Distribution
      System (RPCCDS)
  • Advanced Weather
    Interactive Processing
    System (AWIPS)
    • Overview
    • AWIPS Narrowband
      Communications to
      the RPG
    • RPCCDS and Archive Level III
    • The AWIPS Workstation
• Acronym Listing

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User Systems - Advanced Weather
Interactive Processing System (AWIPS):
RPCCDS and Archive Level III

In addition to making Radar Product Generator (RPG) products available to NWS WFO staff, the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) also plays an important part in disseminating WSR-88D products out to other organizations. The AWIPS Wide Area Network (WAN) is used to send the Archive Level III products from each RPG to the Network Control Facility (NCF) in Silver Spring, MD. From there, the Archive Level III data are made available to other users through the Radar Product Central Collection/Distribution System (RPCCDS).

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