MANAGING APPLICATION EROGRAMS IN AN ERA OF CHANGE

A number of upper air sites were relocated during the past year, and many irore such changes are anticipated over the next three to five years. For those charged with managing applications programs and their associated files, each such change can be akin to opening a can of worms. In order for data fran the rew sites to be accessible to the various application programs that process upper air data, several associated support files must be revised. In a worst case situation, as many as ten different ARDS data files will have to be changed, not to mention pil editing the data base and revising macros and background schedule files. And, if Mike Foster's UA/AUA programs (for PL) are in use, two PC files will also need to be revised. 1989 NWS (National Weather Service) NWC (National Water Center) Library Public Domain 1931