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METOC Integrated Data Display System (MIDDS)
MIDDS is the command’s principle aviation weather support system. The
system uses a multi-tasking client-server architecture and handles the
ingestion, processing, display, and dissemination of meteorological and
oceanographic (METOC) data at forecaster workstations and remote display
monitors.MIDDS has six workstations: two of which support a bank of computer
display monitors (the “Wall of Thunder”), while the remaining four serve
as workstations for the Forecaster, Sub-Regional Forecaster (SRF), Observer,
and Training. MIDDS software upgrades are issued periodically, which continue
to improve the level of performance of the system.
The Satellite, Alphanumeric, NEXRAD and DIFAX (SAND) package automatically
ingests and updates several streams of METOC data for use by the forecaster, including:
1) High resolution visual and infrared (IR) Geostationary Operational
and Environmental Satellite Variant (GVAR) imagery received via local satellite
antennae and server
2) Alphanumeric data from the DoD’s Automated Weather Network (AWN)
3) The national NEXRAD radar mosaic product is periodically retrieved,
and raw radar data from the NEXRAD sites at Slidell, Louisiana, Montgomery,
Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, Jackson, Mississippi, Eglin AFB, and Tallahassee,
Florida can be accessed and serve as backups to the local NEXRAD PUP
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