BAMEX Operations Center Functions

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BAMEX Operations Center Functions
Daily Planning Meeting Facility
Status Forecasting Nowcasting Field
Catalog Research Flight Planning Operations
Coordination Aircraft ATC GBOS Logistics Data
/Products Display System LAN
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BAMEX Daily Timeline for Operations
Daily Operations Summary Posted to Catalog
Final aircraft Go/No go decision (fuel aircraft)
Update for present-day IOP (if needed)
Nowcast Support (as required)
Daily Planning Meeting
POD Finalized (tomorrow)
Evening Update
Aircraft return to STL
Forecast Team Preparation
Time 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 T0-1 T0 T0?t
T09 (CDT)
GBOS setup (17 19)
1st Aircraft take-off
2nd, 3rd Aircraft takeoff
GBOS update
GBOS deployment
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BAMEX Daily Planning Process
Status Coordinator
Mission Proposals
BAMEX PIs
Weather Forecast Team

• Daily Planning Meeting
• Previous mission summary
• Instrument and platform status
• Todays update
• Tomorrows forecast and outlook

• Proposals and discussion
• Tomorrows mission decision
• Special Observations
• Administrative announcements

• Mission Plan
• Scientific objectives alternatives
• Type of flight plan alternatives
• Alert sequence
• Takeoff time

• Airborne mission scientist(s)
• GBOS movements
• Sounding launch schedule

Operations Support Team Science Director
Operations Director Coordinators status,
aircraft, GBOS
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BAMEX Operations Center Staff
Operations Director Dirks, Moore,
Stossmeister A/C Coordinator Meitin,
Williams GBOS Coordinator Dowell, Trapp GBOS
Logistics Coordinator ?? Dropsonde Coordinator
Knievel, Bartels, Ahijevych Status Coordinator
?? Site Coordinator Dirks, Moore System
Administrator Daniels, Burghart Administrative
Assistant Tignor, Sandoval, Beard,
Ray Catalog/Data Coordinator Roberts, Loehrer,
Goldstein Nowcast/Forecast Coordinator Weisman,
Przybylinski, Bosart Forecast Team 8-12 people, 2
weeks each Nowcast Team 18-22 people, 2 weeks
each Student Assistants UCLA, UI, SUNYA, UMO,
SLU, NCAR
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BAMEX Operations Center Layout

• Operations/Nowcasting/Communications Center
  (telephones, terminals, fax)
• Operations Director/Aircraft Coordinator cubicles
• Meeting area (including projection system)
• In-field data management center (catalog ingest,
  operational datasets, sounding data, etc.)
• Air crew staging area
• Systems administration support area

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Mid America Airport (MAA) Operations Center
Layout
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Ramp and Runway
Operations and Forecasting
Aircraft Facilities
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Main Entrance
Car Parking Lot
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Airport Security-Badges(Only For Ramp Access
All Regular Flight Crew)

• Fingerprint Local Law Enforcement Agency
• Employment History Form
• ID Application Form
• web forms - URL
• Submit ASAP At least 3 weeks before arrival
• To Mid America Airport,
• Office of Public Safety
• 9768 Airport Blvd.
• Mascoutah, IL 62258-5500
• Other restricted area access by escort only
• Foreign National Badges

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BAMEX Operations Center Displays

• FSL FX-Net workstations (operational weather
  products)
• BAMEX Field Catalog (research data products,
  operational data products, documentation)
• Aircraft position/data display system (satellite
  overlay, radar composite overlay (RDCC)
• Aircraft position from 3 aircraft
• WSR 88D Level III NIDS products
• MM sounding display
• Assorted participant web access/email
  workstations
• Workstations for other specialized products
  (e.g.SUDS)

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Reports Daily Operations Summary IOP mission
reports Facility Status Reports
Forecasts,Nowcasts
Operational Products Satellite, Soundings
Surface, Radar
Research Products Aircraft plots Airborne
radar GBOS plots Dropsondes
Model/Forecast Products ETA/GFS products SPC
discussion Research Model Products
Tools/Misc Authoring forms Product submission
User guide Other links
Missions IOP Table Cross-reference to
other products
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FIELD CATALOG SAMPLE PRODUCTS
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BAMEX Communications Overview
Project Aircraft
VHF radio
Mobile Field Systems SMART-R, MIPS, MGLASS,
MMesonets
Sat. Phone Image, Position Data Relay
Cell Phone Sat Phone VHF, HF Image relay
BAMEX Operations Center Mid-America Airport, IL
(BOC) Ops. Coordination Science
Team Facility Status In-field
Analysis Forecast/Nowcast Data
Ingest BAMEX Field Catalog Data Collection GBOS
Coordination LAN/Wireless Logistics ATC/Mili
tary Coord.
Scientist Remote Access
Dial-up Modem Internet Provider
NWS WFO St. Louis, MO Operational Weather
Data Specialized Model Data NAWIPS Severe Weather
Alerts
Internet
Aircraft Coordination Center Mid-America
Airport, IL NRL P-3 Post Flight
Debriefings NOAA P-3 Mission
Planning Dropsonde Jet A/c Status Updates
Data Processing A/c Logistics
T-1 Internet
NCAR, NOAA, Rest of the World
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Operations Center Products to be Received from
Research Facilities

• GBOS (including MM?, Sondes, MIPS)
• Armada position
• Mobile Mesonet data (time series, maps)
• Mobile CLASS soundings (data)
• Time/height profiles plots, ceilometer products,
  temperature, water vapor, cloud water (MIPS)
• Aircraft
• Position
• Low-resolution radar images
• Dropsonde profiles
• Model Products
• MM5, WRF, RAMS

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• BAMEX Communications
• Airborne and Ground-Based Considerations
• Current/planned communications capabilities
• Cell phones (voice/data) limited coverage area
• VHF/UHF/HF radio (voice) air-air direct,
  air-ground direct
• Packet radio (data, 900 MHz digital) GBOS
• Land phone lines (voice/data) limited access
• Satellite phone (voice)
• Satellite data downlinks data duplex
• Semaphores

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BAMEX Research Facilities Comms Capabilities
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Critical BAMEX Facilities Comms Links
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BAMEX Communication Issues

• Who needs what communications capabilities?
• Who, from the ground, needs to communicate with
  which aircraft?
• What aircraft data are needed on the ground
  (flight tracks, radar images, soundings)?
• What ground data are needed on the aircraft
  (radar composites, nowcasts, terminal weather)?
• Field mobile systems data available in near real
  time for
• Nowcasting (soundings, mobile Mesonet, text this
  includes proposed CSU satellite Mesonet plots
• Mesoscale model ingest
• Position updating in the BOC
• Intercomparison coordination issues
• Timing of update information from BOC (nowcasts,
  GBOS deployment, etc.)

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BAMEX Communication Issues

• Critical links with Doppler P-3s and BOC/GBOS
  (duplex email, images required, voice desirable)
• Critical links with Dropsonde A/C and BOC (duplex
  data link required, voice desirable)
• Critical links among aircraft (voice mandatory
  pilot-pilot, scientist-scientist, relay from
  ground desirable)
• What aircraft data are needed on the ground
  (flight tracks, radar images, soundings, drop
  points)?
• What ground data are needed on the aircraft
  (radar composites plots from BOC and WSI,
  nowcasts, terminal weather updates, launch
  points/times, GBOS plots)?
• Timing of update information from BOC (nowcasts,
  GBOS deployment, daily operations summary, etc.)
• Field mobile systems data available in near real
  time for
• Nowcasting (soundings, profiles, mobile probe
  vehicle, text )
• Mesoscale model ingest?
• Position updating in the BOC
• Are there intercomparison coordination
  considerations?