Below we present a general schematic of the current near-real time MM5 system. The AFWA T1A and T1B runs, used as first guess fields for the local MM5 run, arrives via the Alaska Weather Operations Center at Elmendorf AFB and the Alaska Region of the National Weather Service. Updated sea ice and vegetation data from satellite are obtained daily from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Data Acquisition and Analysis Center.

The output data from both runs is fed into a suite of verification routines and in-flight icing diagnostic routines, the outputs of which are rearranged and analyzed by UAF personnel. Graphical representations of both the AFWA and UAF local runs are produced by the MM5 'Graph' package as well as the "RIP" graphics package developed by Dr. Mark Stoelinga at the University of Washington's Atmospheric Science Department.

Observational and satellite data are anticipated to be included as the system progresses, as input to not only an Integrated Icing Diagnostic Algorithm but also to new verification routines and eventually data assimilation procedures.