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May 16, 2005
LeRoy Spayd
Chief, Meteorological Services Division
Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services
NOAA’s National Weather Service
Unidata Policy CommitteeUnidata Policy Committee
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Outline
• More Data: Observations and Models
• Improving Data Distribution
• Digital Services
• Challenges
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Background
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Climate
Media
Aviation
Hydrology
Marine & Tropical
Emergency Managers
General Public
Information (Newspapers, TV News)
Federal Gov't Aggregate
American Customer Satisfaction Index Overall
NOAA’s NWS “…does an outstanding job of providing weather information.”
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Measuring Customer Satisfaction
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More Observations
Land, Air, and Sea
• NOAA’s Integrated Observing System (IOS)
– Integrated Surface Observing System (ISOS)
– Integrated Upper-Air Observing System (IUOS)
– Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)
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More Observations• Integrated Surface Observing System (ISOS)
– ASOS
– Cooperative Observers (COOP)
– COOP-Modernization
– Mesonets
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More ObservationsIntegrated Upper-Air Observing System (IUOS)
– NEXRAD
– Radiosondes
– NOAA Profiler Network
– Meteorological Data Collection and Reporting System
(MDCRS)
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More ObservationsIntegrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)
– Buoys, C-MAN
– DART
– TAO
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More Model Output
• Air Quality Forecast System
• Climate Forecast System
• North American Ensemble Forecast System
• Weather, Research, and Forecasting (WRF) Model
Higher resolution, more applications, and confidence information
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Improving Data Distribution
• Communications and Facilities
• Product Formats
• Data Fusion and Portals
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Communications and Facilities
With Partners using Internet2 to improve data delivery
•• Level II Radar Data• Model data
CRAFT
CONDUIT
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Communications and Facilities
Using COTS satellite technology to improve data access
•January 2005: Doubled NOAAPORT capacity to support WRF, SREF, and RUC13km distribution
• 2008+: Will double capacity of NOAAPORT in to accommodate NPOESS and model requirements.
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Communications and Facilities
• NCEP supercomputing system
• Telecommunications Gateway
Improving Backups
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Product Formats
Expanding move from text to digital products
• Digital Services/ NDFD Official Elements– Max/Min Temperature – Probability of – Precipitation (12 hour) – Dew Point
Temperature
– Present Weather
.TONIGHT...FREEZING RAIN MIXED WITH SLEET NORTH...CHANGING TO SNOW OVERNIGHT. ICE ACCUMULATIONS IN EXCESS OF A QUARTER INCH...AND 1 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW ARE POSSIBLE FAR NORTH. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ELSEWHERE...TAPERING FROM THE NORTHWEST AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS FROM THE LOWER 20S FAR NORTH TO THE MIDDLE 40S ALONG THE COAST
Text Digital
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Product Formats• Future NDFD Elements:
– Sky Cover– Quantitative Precipitation
Forecasts (QPF)– Wind Direction– Wind Speed– Snow Amount– Significant Wave Height– Uncertainty Information – 4D Information
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NDFD Examples
•• Forecast Evolution over 7 daysForecast Evolution over 7 days
•• Heavy QPFHeavy QPF
•• Colorado “Blizzard”Colorado “Blizzard”
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Corresponding Observations
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Forecast Evolution Over 7 Days
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Heavy QPF
72 72 hrhr
60 60 hrhr
36 36 hrhr
48 48 hrhr
24 24 hrhr
1212hrhr
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Corresponding QPE
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Colorado “Blizzard” II--70 West of Denver70 West of Denver
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Corresponding Snowfall
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•Hydrometeorological Automated Data System (HADS)– Acquires non-standard raw hydro data via GOES DCS– More than 1.7 million observational values processed each day– Raw data is translated and re-encoded into NWS Standard
Hydrometeorological Exchange Format (SHEF) data products
•Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS)– Acquires non-standard raw data relayed from mesonet providers– Current mesonets =95,
Current mesonet sites = 15,998– Output files in multiple formats
Data PortalsFusing disparate data sets in near-real time
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Data Portals
Facilitating Service-focused data Distribution
• Aviation: Aviation Digital Data Service (ADDS)
– http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov/
• Climate: Climate Outreach Toolkit
– http://www.erh.noaa.gov/outreachtoolkit/index.shtml
• Hydrology: Advanced Hydrologic Prediction System
– http://ahps.erh.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ahps.cgi?lwx
• Space Weather:
– http://www.sec.noaa.gov/index.html
• Emergency Management – Hurricanes
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Data Portals
Emergency Management – Support to Emergency Managers
for Hurricanes, “EMHURR” Portal
• An ArcIMS website
• Allows assessment of near-real time data during tropical storm/hurricane strike.
• Provides ability to selectively access and interact with data
• Will allow ability to download source data
Hurricane Track Precipitation
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Data Portals
NWS Web PortalNWS Web Portal
• Six major Internet farms
• Average 5-6 million users per day;
• Active weather will spike to 15-20 million users per day
• Routinely ranked in top 5 US Govtwebsites by Neilson Ratings
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Challenges
• Meeting demands for improved data -- quality, quantity, reliability, timeliness
• Building effective enterprise partnerships
• Staying near cutting edge of IT
• Navigating tight budget environment
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Summary
• Quality, quantity, and data delivery of observations will continue to be expanded and improved
• NWS continues to push headfirst into the digital age
• Unidata will play an integral role in making this happen!