Instructions for How to Download and Install the AWIPS Procedures from the WDTB Lab

DLOC Workshop 2009

Starty by downloading the .tar.gz file HERE. Follow the steps below to get the procedures working on your WES or live AWIPS.

1.  Seek assistance from your ITO or SOO about where to download these procedures.  In most cases putting them on your real-time workstations will be in a different directory than the correct one on your WES machine(s).  Either way, to ensure that no harm is done to the WES machine(s) or the real-time workstations, seek the help of your SOO or ITO first before proceeding further.

2.  Once you have the okay and assistance from your ITO or SOO, put the DLOCFY09_userPrefs.tar.gz file to the location where the directory ..//userPrefs/[your_username] is located. The userPrefs directory is in /data/fxa on a live AWIPS or in /data/awips/<your_case> for a particular case on the WES.

3.  Once the file is downloaded inside your username directory, untar and unzip the files using the command tar -zxvf DLOCFY09_UserPrefs.tar.gz

4.  The procedure sets NAM_UA, NAM_NSE, LAPS_NSE, RUC_UA, RUC_NSE, and SAT_METARS should work right out of the box unless your local AWIPS has some really different volume browser entries from what we use in the Lab.  The procedure set Radar_KMKX will have to be modified for your dedicated radar(s), as discussed next in step #5.

5.  If you want the radar procedures to work for your local radar(s), this too can be done:
    a.  In AWIPS D-2D logged in as yourself, open up the Radar_KMKX set of procedures. 
    b.  Highlight a procedure of interest that you wish to convert to your dedicated radar(s)
    c.  Click the button "Alter" from the procedures GUI
    d.  In the "Alter Bundle on Loading" GUI, choose your radar of interest from the dropdown menu, then click "Load"
    e.  The procedure should properly load your radar with all the same map backgrounds that were used in the DLOC lab other than urban boundaries which was customized for each case in the lab and you won't have access to it locally.  Your local office may have its own urban boundaries map background that you could overlay on this pane.  If you want urban boundaries in your final procedure, overlay it now before moving onto the next step. 
    f.  The last step is to create a new set of radar procedures for yourself, then from the pane you just loaded, click the "copy in" button from your newly created procedure set GUI and save the set.  You'll have to do this for each of the procedures from Radar_KMKX if you want to use any of them permanently for your dedicated radar(s).

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