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ZTL will be turning off an adaptation in ERAM for coordination fixes that might cause flight strips t o print with no aircraft type. Although we were unable to find even a handf ul of instances of this happening in the last year, we are glad to be getting help from the ZTL E RAM team in solving this issue. Cab modifications have been completed and the facility and engineering services have designed temporary strip holders for the facility to use in case of a failure . These will be tested this week while we are testing their adaptations. SFO Nothing new LAS Nothing new EWR Nothing new SWIM Visualization Tool (SVT) We are still in the process of assessing the NAS Operational Das hboard (NOD) tool that is in use at the Command Center against what TFDM ' s Surface Situational Awareness (SSA) tool will be. It will ultimately be up to the Traffic Flow Management System to finalize the capabilities of the SSA, which will be used in TRACO Ns and Centers across the country. WEATHER Matt Tucker (ZTL) is NATCA's Article 114 Representative for Weather. His update for the membership is below. Weather and Radar Processor (WARP) WARP has a couple of changes that are being deployed or will be d eployed in the next month. A decision was made to lower the m oderate layer of precipitation on ERAM from 30 DBZ to 26 DBZ to pick up some of the precipitation that aircraft were deviating around that controllers were not seeing on ERAM. The reason for the change was under the old radar mosaic on ERAM there was only 8 levels of precipitation detection, the new mosaics that were deployed in the fall have 256 levels of detection so the moderate level use to display previously was actually showing light precipi tation that would be close to the 30dbz level of moderate precipitation. Lowering the moderate layer to 26dbz will pick up some of the precipitation that was not being displayed without producing extra clutter on the ERAM display. The next update to WARP is the high confidence mosaic; the meteorology evaluation was just completed and is in the coordination process. Once the evaluation is signed off the new mosaic will be deployed to ERAM. This mosaic will have all the data quality editing and AP mitigatio n algorithm's running, this will remove most of the AP and interference that controllers are currently seeing on ERAM. This should roll out towards the end of April. NextGEN Weather Processor (NWP) and Common Support Services Weather (CSS - WX)