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What's New on Experimental ADDS
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- 19 October 2009
We are embarking on a complete redesign of the Experimental ADDS website.
If you would like to help shape the future of this site, please take a moment to
fill out this survey
(Reader required). Thanks.
- 12 October 2009
NCAR will be performing annual network maintenance on Saturday, October 17th
from 11:30 to 00:00 UTC. This may affect access to Experimental ADDS, so
please be prepared to consult an alternate source of weather during that time.
- 12 August 2009
Rearchitecture of the experimental ADDS web site is now complete. The new architecture is
efficient and scalable to support the many new products we are working on.
Thanks for your patience during the upgrade.
- 23 June 2009
A major rearchitecture of the experimental ADDS web site is currently being tested. The new
architecture should be much more responsive and will allow us to support many new products in
the future.
All of the features of the site should work as before, except the Java tools. Please exit and restart
any running sessions of the Flight Path Tool and HEMS Tool
to reload the latest working versions.
- 08 August 2008
As promised, the now deprecated Java Applets have been removed from the ADDS web site. Please use the Flight Path Tool to view all of the products that were available in the applets.
- 15 April 2008
National Ceiling and Visibility Analysis plots have been added to the METARs page.
Version 2 of the Flight Path Tool has been released. It has a simpler user interface, several new datasets, and a new meteorogram tool.
- 12 June 2007
The ADDS Dataserver
1.2 has been released
- 24 January 2007
The ADDS Dataserver
1.1 has been released
- 15 November 2006
The HEMS Low Altitude Flight Tool is now available. This tool was specifically designed to assist flights for Helicopter Emergency Medical Services.
- 05 September 2006
The ADDS Dataserver
1.0 has been released and has its own tab
- 14 February 2006
Version 0.9 of the ADDS Dataserver has been released. See the Release Notes for details
- 6 December 2005
Look at the Satellite page to see the new Experimental Cloud Top Height Product!
- 28 November 2005
The ADDS Dataserver has been updated!
Be aware, METAR field names have changed
to include units (elevation is now elevation_m, etc.)
- 15 November 2005
The ADDS Dataserver has been updated!
Be aware, the METAR XML format has changed. Also, the path to the server has changed from
http://weather.aero/mantis/httpparam to http://weather.aero/dataserver/httpparam.
Currently METAR, TAF, and PIREP data is accessible in XML and CSV format, with more products and features coming soon.
- 1 June 2005
The ADDS Dataserver is now available!
This service allows for the retrieval of ADDS data without any HTML parsing.
Currently METAR data is accessible in XML format, with more products and features coming soon.
- 13 May 2005
A New ADDS Forum is available! Post questions or start
discussions with developers and the ADDS User Community.
- 13 May 2005
The Flight Path Tool application now has convection data!
- 27 Oct 2004
The Flight Path Tool is now available as an application, which allows
saving of preferences, map resizing, and more!
- 21 Sep 2004
Hourly forecast plots from TAF data for various regions around the
U.S. are seen on the TAFs page.
- 21 Sep 2004
Version #2 of the National Convective Weather Forecast (NCWF2)
now appears on the Convection page.
- 21 Sep 2004
AIR/SIGMET map background colors have been altered for better
legibility (on the AIR/SIGMETs page.
- Jun 2004
Users can now request the option of plain-English translated TAF data
from the TAFs page. Behind the
scenes, new and improved decoding and storage software are used.
- Jun 2004
Users can now retrieve PILot REPorts (PIREPs) in raw text format using
a new interface on the PIREPs page. Behind the
scenes, new and improved decoding and storage software are used.
- Mar 2004
The brand&345;new Forecast Icing Potential (FIP) product is available
on the Icing page with forecasts out to roughly 12 hours.
- Mar 2004
Behind the scences, new and improved AIRMET and SIGMET decoding, storage, and
plotting software bring a new look to these graphics found on
the AIR/SIGMETs page.
- Sep 2003
Experimental ADDS becomes a separate site from
Operational ADDS
- Sep 2003
The original ADDS site has been transferred to the NWS Aviation Weather
Center for "OPERATIONAL" support.
- Aug 02, 2002
An enhanced PIREPs Java Tool
is now available. Domain selection has improved
and now extends to include Hawaii. An interactive Data Key is available and
the improved Report Data Selector provides a more intuitive means for selecting data
for display. The Report Data Selector also provides the user with
a way to display multilple hours worth of data.
- Jul 15, 2002
Experimental Forecast Icing
Potential (FIP) graphics have been added to the icing page
and the Flight Path Tool.
- Jun 18, 2002
The NCWF Java Tool
(convection) was fixed to show the 1-hour forecast polygons, past
performance polygons, and storm tops/motion.
- Feb 01, 2002
The software used to ingest, process, and display METARs data has been
drastically improved. A number of corrections were made to the
METARs Java Tool as well
as the static GIF graphics. Also, the form to retrieve "raw"
and "translated" METARs is entirely new. Performing this upgrade
eliminates one of the weakest links of the ADDS infrastructure that has
been responsible for numerous outages over the lifetime of ADDS. We
expect the reliability to be greatly enhanced by these changes as well
as convey new information to users.
- Dec 19, 2001
There are new versions of the METARs and TAFs
Java Tools which extend the
regions of the display to Alaska, Hawaii, Europe, and Asia. To
see all the new regions, choose either the METARs or TAFs Java
Tool and, once there, click on the "Overview"
button.
- Dec 19, 2001
Behind the scenes, a new piece of hardware runs ADDS. The new
hardware is expected to be more reliable than the older, aging
hardware as well as provide more room for growth and increased
speed.
- Sep 05, 2001
The Winds/Temps Page now contains
plots of temperature and revised wind plots at a new selection of flight
levels. Besides plots of temperature in degrees Centigrade, there are
plots of the temperature departure from ICAO standard atmosphere.
Furthermore, there is a choice of wind streamlines as well as the standard
wind barb plots.
- Mar 05, 2001
The Icing Page now contains
new and improved graphics of the experimental icing
product referred to as IIDA - Integrated Icing Diagnostic Algorithm.
- Jan 10, 2001
The Radar Page now contains
links to images produced by the NWS since the NIDS contract expired
on 01 Jan 2001.
- Jan 01, 2001
ADDS now has a Question and Answer
FORUM. Please use the Forum to ask a meteorologist aviation
weather questions or ADDS developers for help using an ADDS product.
- Dec 23, 2000
On the Java Tools Page, we
now offer a large size option for METARs, TAFs, and AIR/SIGMETs.
- Dec 03, 2000
The TAFs Java Tool has been
enlarged.
- Dec 01, 2000
The Radar Page now provides a
choice between two vendors for NEXRAD single-site images. You
can now pick between WSI-Intellicast and DTN-Kavouras.
- Nov 29, 2000
The Flight Path Tool is now found on
the Java Tools page and has been enhanced to include
capability to overlay contours of temperature, wind speed, humidity,
or other variables on top of a color-filled background graphic.
Also, a movie loop feature was added to this tool.
- Nov 29, 2000
The Satellite Page now provides infrared
images with a black and white color scheme besides the color-enhanced IR
versions. Also, images covering Alaska and Hawaii were added.
- Nov 29, 2000
Time in four U.S. time zones is displayed at the bottom of every page along with
Universal Coordinated Time (UTC or GMT). This is the time a particular page was
loaded and helps convert UTC time to your timezone.
- Nov 29, 2000
Prog charts now have their own page instead
of accessing via the Winds Page.
- Nov 29, 2000
The entire ADDS site gets a face-lift. It should be quicker to load most
pages.
- Oct 01, 1998
The ADDS site goes live at the Aviation
Weather Center in Kansas City, MO.
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