The Multiple Regional Radar Display (MRRD) tool allows users to display radar, surface, and lightning data from several radars in the vicinity of the installation. The MRRD tool Includes both an in-office, interactive display and a static web-based version.  MRRD is a scaled-down version of the AutoNowcast System which is currently deployed at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR).

The primary display used on the MRRD node is the CIDD  (Configurable Interactive Data Display)  GUI.
The MRRD/CIDD GUI can display the following types of data:

• Radar reflectivity data from the first 4 elevation angles
• Radial velocity radar data from the first 2 elevation angles
• Storm tops data
• Vertically Integrated Liquid (VIL)
• Storm-relative radial velocity
• 1-hour precipitation estimates and storm-total precipitation estimates
• METAR station data plots
• Cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning data
• 30- and 60-minute TITAN storm extrapolations and cross-correlation echo motion vectors

The data are typically delivered via the Local Data Manager (LDM) system.  Data outages are usually due to LDM issues.

The MRRD GUI also displays U.S. county and state, and ATEC range map boundaries.  The data can be displayed as static images or as movie loops of images.  

The NIDS radar data, METAR data, and CG lightning data displayed by this tool are downloaded via the NOAAport system.

The MRRD tool is primarily used to view lightning data, surface observations, and radar data.  These data combine to provide a great deal of information about frontal weather and its movement, lightning occurrences and their locations, and the effects and movement of isolated airmass thunderstorms generated during the summer months.

A comprehensive guide for operating the CIDD display system used in the MRRD can be found by visiting this link, User's Manual