April 2002

February 29, 2012Tracy Hansen

Bryon Lawrence

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Overview

• Project Overview• Prototype Work• Next Steps and Future work

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Contributors

Paula McCaslin

Charlie Paxton

Bunny Pfau

Evan Polster

Nico Preston

Jim Ramer

Mike Romberg

Bob Rood

Kevin Scharfenberg

Steve Schotz

Logan Smith

Jennifer Spinney

Jennifer Valdez

Joe Wakefield

Susan Williams

Leigh Cheatwood Harris

Yu-ru Chen

Gina Chien

David Etim

John Ferree

Tom Filiaggi

Chris Golden

Herb Grote

Eve Gruntfest

Tracy Hansen

Xiangbao Jing

Bryon Lawrence

Tom LeFebvre

Mark Mathewson

Greg Machala

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Collaborations

AWIPS IINWSWarnNSSL PHI

Iris / iNWS

COMET

RENCIMDLMeteorological Development Lab

University of Wisconsin

NWS National CentersNCEP Development Team

NWS PartnersOHD, NWS HydrologistsWorkshop participants BOU Office

NSSLNational Severe Storms Lab

RTS Raytheon Technical Services

AWIPS IIExtendedCollaborationData DeliveryThin ClientVerification

SSWIMSocial Science WovenInto Meteorology

Central Weather Bureau,Taiwan

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Iterative Feedback Process“Build a little / Test a little”

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FeedbackIncorporated into next iteration

Demo Sessions

Prototype

User

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Social Science Partner ResearchSocial Science Woven into Meteorology (SSWIM) SSWIM brought on board 2009

Preliminary Results from Current Research shared at AMS 2011

Today, provide a brief overview of the social science component and share several practical applications for the Hazard Services prototype design.

Jen Spinney, Researcher carrying out social science component of project

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Funding and Resources

• National Weather Service – OS&T (Office of Science and Technology)

• GSD DDF (Global Systems Division Discretionary Director) and Base Funds

• CWB (Central Weather Bureau) Taiwan• COMET – University of Southern Florida• Southern Region – NWSWarn• MDL personnel

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Hazard Services Project Portal : integratedhazards.noaa.gov

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Purpose -- Integrate Hazard ToolsPhase 1

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WARNGEN(< 1 hour)

GHG(Hours-Days)

RiverPro(Days)

HazardServices

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Purpose -- Integrate Hazard ToolsPhase 2

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WARNGEN(< 1 hour)

GHG(Hours-Days)

RiverPro(Days)

Hazard Services

NMAP(National)

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Purpose -- Two-way CommunicationPhase 3

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AWIPS II CAVE -- Forecasters

Web -- Partners:EM's, BroadcastersSpotters, Publics

National“Cloud”

Hazards

Impacts

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Project History

• 2004 OSIP Project / Next Generation Warning Tool team

– Telecons for Concept and Requirements discussions 2008 Workshop Norman OK, 130 attendees

http://www.weather.gov/warningworkshop

– 50% NWS / 50% partners (FEMA, EM’s, etc.) 2009 Integrated Hazard Information Services

Workshop hosted by GSD, 70 attendees http://fxa.noaa.gov/NGWT/NGWT_Workshop.html

– Forecasters / partners / developers / social scientists

– Initial User Interface designed for prototyping

• 2010 Prototyping – Web-based short-fused tornado warning

– Established basic user interface through rapid forecaster feedback

– Looking ahead to two-way communication

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Project History

• 2011 Prototype work– AWIPS II CAVE Prototypes – short-fused, long-

fused, hydro

– Utilization of PGEN drawing tools

– GIS data – hospitals, Iris spotter reports, Census

– Design and partial development for “Live Data”

– Web-based prototype (prior to May)

– Attended IWT Workshop – Hydro/Partners

• 2011 Workshops– Attended IWT Workshop – Hydro/Partners

– Hazard Services Workshop II (Sept) – Engaged user community and began defining IOC requirements

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Short-fused Tornado Warning

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Short-fused Tornado Warning

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Long-fused Winter Storm Warning

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Long-fused Winter Storm Warning

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Integrated Hazard Information Services

Moving from Product-Centric to Information-Centric Hazard Information

Still need to store both legacy VTEC (Valid Time Event Code) product-centric information along with “atomic” information-centric information.

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HazardCreation:

Grids, Polygons,Points, Paths

(Drawn or Calculated) ->

Product Generation SBN

National Distributed Database

Atomic Hazard Information

VTEC Information

Hazard Services – Data Storage

Information Centric

Product Centric

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Next Steps and Future Work

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Summary of Prototyping Work

– Prototyping has• “Touched on” ~60% of requirements• Provided a good launching point for gathering

functional requirements and IOC design• Yet only covers ~20% of the functionality

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Future Work

-- Integrated GSD / RTS team for Phase 1 production development

-- Goals: OSIP Gate 3 and IOC -- Development Tasks

– Data Transformation Framework for algorithms such as Recommenders and Text Products

– Database Solution – working with Iris team on storage formats, security, authentication

– User Interface and Forecast Process – common GUI for efficient and accurate hazard generation

• Common Data Access• Common Tools – iTools, Recommenders, Text Products• Collaboration

• Real-time• Data Sharing

• National Data “Cloud”

Hazard Services across perspectives A possible step toward integrating AWIPS Applications