From Technology Innovation To Scientific Stewardship
Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., U.S. Navy (Ret.)
Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans & Atmosphere
WVHTC Foundation RoundtableApril 13, 2007
NOAA’s Linkages to West Virginia
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How do we carry out our Mission?
How do we carry out our Mission? People/
ResearchAircraft &
ShipsSatellites…
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NOAA in West VirginiaNOAA in West Virginia
NOAA has Federal Employees and several contractors providing support and services to NOAA
National Weather Service Forecast Office, Charleston
National Weather Service Back up Supercomputer, Fairmont
NOAA Research, Air Resources Laboratory and Canaan Valley Institute Partnerships
Climate Data Modernization Program
Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System
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Aquaculture and West Virginia
Aquaculture and West Virginia
Commerce Secretary Gutierrez visited a WV fish hatchery yesterday, this hatchery produces safe seafood for U.S. consumers
U.S. has an $8 billion seafood trade deficit 81% of the seafood consumed in the U.S. is imported and 40%
of those imports are farmed
Need more U.S. aquaculture, both coastal and inland, to meet growing demand for seafood
NOAA investments in aquaculture are coastal and offshore in the open ocean
Offshore aquaculture cages, raised for inspection. Kona, Hawaii
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Department of Commerce activities in West Virginia
Department of Commerce activities in West Virginia
The Department of Commerce and EDA also are proud to have partnered with various organizations throughout West Virginia to promote economic development.
Since 2001, EDA has awarded 120 investments totaling almost $48.2 million in West Virginia.
These investments are predicted to lead to over $786 million in private sector investments which are expected to generate nearly 9,700 new jobs, and be a major catalyst in transforming West Virginia's economy.
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Weather and climate related events affect 1/3 of the GNP, including every segment of our economy
NOAA relies on supercomputers to provide the nation with continuous up-to-date forecasts
Forecasts are based on complex weather/climate models, requiring intensive calculations
Back up system in Fairmont fulfilled its mission during February 16, 2007 incident…
NWS Fairmont Back UpSupercomputer
NWS Fairmont Back UpSupercomputer
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Climate MonitoringClimate Monitoring
NOAA’S Air Resources Laboratory: Air quality research and monitoring
Acid deposition; nitrogen deposition Ambient ozone levels
Acid deposition: Significant source of acidification
in watersheds; excess nitrogen may cause a shift in natural balance of plant and animal life, leading to depleted levels of oxygen in lakes and streams
Ozone: A powerful oxidizer, can damage plant and lung
tissue
Climate Station in WV Elkins, Canaan Valley Resort State Park (Cabins Area)
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NOAA Air Resources Laboratory Canaan Valley
Institute Research Collaboration
NOAA Air Resources Laboratory Canaan Valley
Institute Research CollaborationNational Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP-AIRMoN)
Global Energy Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX)
FLUXNET
Climate Reference Network
(NOAA-CRN)
Atmospheric Mercury Research
Periodic Intensive Field
Studies
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Climate Reporting Through History
Climate Reporting Through History
Jefferson’s Weather
Observations July 1776
Ozonesonde Launch—South
PoleApril 2005
Cities at Risk of Rising Seas Associated Press –March 28, 2007
This was world's warmest recorded winter
Reuters – March 16, 2007
Scientists: Earth Could Heat Up for Centuries
Good Morning America – February 2, 2007
Global Warming Man-Made, Will Continue
Associated Press – February 1, 2007
El Nino Visualized
December 1997
CarbonTrackerMarch 2007
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Climate Data Modernization Program
(CDMP)
Climate Data Modernization Program
(CDMP)Preserving historical weather and climate records electronically
Enables first-time access by scientific community
Allows data to be used within climate assessments
Preserves global records that may have been lost forever if left on paper
WV–a key partner in CDMP
1842 Hourly Weather Data from Washington, DC Imaged &
Digitized through CDMP
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WV & CDMP: Results with Impact
WV & CDMP: Results with Impact
Data Management Activities Preserving and rescuing historical records Ingesting newly observed data
Processing data (Quality Control) Maintaining a long term and secure archive
for data Maintaining metadata (station location
changes, sensor calibration coefficients, data formats, many others)
Providing Access to data collectedWest Virginia partnership activities
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Next Generation Satellites
Next Generation Satellites
Satellites are critical to NOAA’s current and future ability to fulfill our Mission
GOES-R: NPOESS:
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R
National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
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Future of Data ArchivingFuture of Data Archiving
New satellites will generate a 10-fold increase in the amount of information seen today.
Information must be archived in order to be useful to society
Requires a concerted effort of data archiving:
Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS)
An advanced electronic library of NOAA’s next generation environmental satellite data.
Archive growth 1990 - 2005
Major systems archive growth 2000 - 2015
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The Future of Environmental Data Access
The Future of Environmental Data Access
NOAA is the world’s repository for environmental information
CLASS is critical to the ongoing success of NOAA’s data centers and access to NOAA satellite data:
National Climatic Data Center National Geophysical Data Center National Oceanic Data Center National Coastal Data
Development CenterCompanies in West Virginia provide CLASS development support since 2002
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Benefits of Innovation & Stewardship
Benefits of Innovation & Stewardship
Provide the right information, in the right format,at the right time,to the right people,to make the right decisions.
Questions?
Backup Material
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Collection of precipitation for chemical analysis
Measurement of precipitation
amount
Canaan Valley AIRMoN Wet Deposition Site
(measures wet deposition of major ions, e.g., “acid rain”)
Canaan Valley AIRMoN Wet Deposition Site
(measures wet deposition of major ions, e.g., “acid rain”)
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GEWEX and FLUXNET
short-term intensive
experiment measuring ozone
fluxes
Canaan Valley GEWEX and FLUXNET Site
(measures surface energy balance and surface exchange of
CO2 and water vapor, relevant for climate change research)
Canaan Valley GEWEX and FLUXNET Site
(measures surface energy balance and surface exchange of
CO2 and water vapor, relevant for climate change research)
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Measurement of
precipitation
Measurement of
temperature
Canaan Valley Climate Reference Network (CRN) Site
(benchmark station measuring temperature, relative humidity
and precipitation, providing data for climate change research)
Canaan Valley Climate Reference Network (CRN) Site
(benchmark station measuring temperature, relative humidity
and precipitation, providing data for climate change research)
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Underground bunker at GEWEX-FLUXNET-AIRMoN site
where on-site chemical analysis is done
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Production Management Branch
Production Management Branch
Government responsible for job flow
IBM responsible for providing 99% System Availability
System Administration staff On-site repairs Software support (Operating
system, Cluster System Management, file system, job scheduler, compilers)
Weather and Climate forecast codes Developed by the Government Performance tuning by IBM
NWS Supercomputing System: “Frost” and “Snow”
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High Performance Computing Technology
High Performance Computing Technology
Gaithersburg and Fairmont Operations 14 Tflops Linpack sustained per system 144 Power 5+ Nodes 2,304 processors (16 per node), 1.9 gigahertz
speed) 4,608 gigabytes of shared memory 150 terabytes of disk space 75 terabyte tape archive
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Product Generation Performance
Highly Dependable & Reliable
Product Generation Performance
Highly Dependable & Reliable