Unidata Policy Committee NOAA/NWS Update

October 21, 2008 LeRoy Spayd Acting Chief Training Division Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services NOAA’s National Weather Service 1

• AWIPS II Update • GOES – R update • NPOESS update

Outline

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AWIPS Evolution Service Improvements

• • • • • • More responsive to partner needs – reduce development time of new products by 50% Direct and integrated visual collaboration with Emergency Managers Streamlined generation of products in industry standard formats •

CAP, GIS, etc.

Expanded access to data for NWS and external partners •

SBN enhancements, smart push-smart pull

Improved and integrated incident support for Emergency Managers and DHS Better weather support for the FAA at CWSUs through enterprise level integration 3

AWIPS Evolution Internal Improvements

• • • Free operations from technology constraints •

Seamless, flexible and extensible weather enterprise that integrates all levels of NWS operations

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Integrated service delivery via the migration of AWIPS and NAWIPS into a common Service Oriented Architecture

Improved continuity of operations • • •

Streamlined service back up Faster software installations More stable operations – fewer bugs

Put new science into operations faster – more accurate warnings and forecasts • •

Enable collaborative development between local, national and outside developers Open source – closed community – open up development to local apps developers and those outside traditional development community, e.g. NASA, academia

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AWIPS II AWIPS II Extended AWIPS II Enhancements =

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Fiscal Year

AWIPS Evolution Roadmap

2007 2008 2009 Baseline Application Migration 2010 2011

AWIPS II

Governance Model OTE / Deployment AWIPS II – Open Source 2012 NAWIPS Migration Thin Client WES Integration 2013 Integrated support to FAA, Fire Weather and WSOs 2014 CHPS Collaboration with Emergency Managers Smart push-smart pull data access IOC FOC NWS Integrated Collaboration Phase 2 Phase 3 Streamlined Generation of Products IOC 3-D Visualization FOC IOC 5

AWIPS II Government Responsibilities

• • • Testing • •

Functional and system testing in partnership with Raytheon Four major test activities

– Acceptance – validation of deliverables – Independent verification and validation – test to break – User Functional Evaluations – look & feel analysis by operational personnel – OT&E Local applications • •

Raytheon provides tools, techniques and advice Government responsible for actual migration

Training • •

Raytheon provides technical documentation and inputs for training materials Government responsible for development and delivery of training to field

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AWIPS II Challenges

• Organizational • •

Matrixed structure increases project complexity Significant off contract workload on Government (HQ & Regions)

• Migration of local applications, templates and procedures • Performance • •

Supporting the short fuse warning mission Handling large global data sets

• Schedule • •

Aggressive, but executable Completing the migration and testing

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Licensing Issue

• Issue being discussed Bi-Weekly at Gov/Raytheon Partnership Mtgs • •

Raytheon claims software is proprietary – rivals will gain access and use programming techniques when 5 year contract is recompeted Raytheon tasked 4 weeks ago to put their concerns in writing – have asked for an 2 week extension

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Gov plans to have NOAA General Counsel review soon with or without Raytheon’s written concerns

• Turnover within AWIPS program – Pgrm Mgr & OST Dir.

• Unidata could help by preparing a “Distribution Plan” on how they intend to distribute/support software under what conditions/constraints •

Assume audience is technical program managers and General Counsel

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Current GOES Constellation

Operational-West GOES-11 (135W) Operational-East GOES-12 (75W)

• GOES mission requires two on-orbit operational satellites and one on-orbit spare • GOES-West location in GOES-R series to be 137°W instead of current 135 °W •

Eliminates conflicts with other satellite systems in X-band frequency at 135 °W

* Note: Satellites are labeled with letters on the ground and changed to numbers on-orbit

GOES-13 (105W) On-orbit Storage GOES-10 (60W) South America

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Basis For Investment

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User Need

Improve hurricane track & intensity forecast Improve thunderstorm & tornado warning lead time Improve aviation flight route planning • Improve solar flare warnings for communications and navigation

GOES-R Instruments

Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) and Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Extreme Ultra Violet Sensor/X-Ray Sensor Irradiance Sensor (EXIS) • Improve power blackout forecasts due to solar flares • Improve energetic particle forecasts Solar Ultra Violet Imager (SUVI) Space Environmental In-Situ Suite (SEISS) 10

GOES-R Instruments

• • • Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) •

Implementation phase

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Contractor: ITT Corporation

Space Weather •

Space Environmental In-Situ Suite (SEISS)

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Implementation phase

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Contractor: Assurance Technology Corporation (ATC)

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Solar Ultra Violet Imager (SUVI)

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Implementation phase Contractor: Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center

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Extreme Ultra Violet/X-Ray Irradiance Sensor (EXIS)

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Implementation phase Contractor: Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)

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Magnetometer

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Procured as part of spacecraft contract

Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) •

Implementation contract awarded in December 2007

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Contractor: Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company

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Increased Performance

Performance Capability

Imaging Visible Resolution IR Resolution Full Disk Coverage Rate # of Channels Solar Monitoring Lightning Detection Operate through Eclipse Ground System Backup Archive and Access Raw Data Volume per spacecraft • •

GOES I-M

1 km 4-8 km 30 min 5 GOES-M only No No Limited Limited 2.6 Mbps

GOES N-P

1 km 4-8 km N 4 km O/P 30 min 5 Yes No Yes Limited Limited 2.6 Mbps

GOES-R maintains continuity of the GOES mission spectral, and temporal resolution of products

GOES R

0.5 km 1-2 km 5 min 16 Yes Yes Yes Limited Yes 75 Mbps

GOES-R also provides significant increases in spatial,

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GOES West

Notional System Overview

GOES East GOES-R Ground Segment Remote Backup Mission Management Wallops Ground Station Product Generation NOAA Satellite Operations Facility Enterprise Management Product Distribution Archive and Access GOES-R Re Broadcast User Community

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Launch Schedule

• GOES R series is a follow on to the existing line of NOAA’s geostationary weather satellites. • •

GOES I series [8-12]: Operational since 1994 GOES N series [13]: N launched May 24 2006, O planned launch late 2008, P planned launch late 2009

• Based on an availability analysis of the current GOES I and N-series, a GOES-R launch is required in the 2014 timeframe to maintain mission data continuity

2004 2005

On-orbit storage

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

On-orbit storage

2013 2014 2015

On-orbit storage

GOES 11

GOES West

GOES 12

GOES East

GOES 13

On-orbit storage

2016 2017 2018

On-orbit Spare

GOES O GOES R

On-orbit storage

GOES S

On-orbit storage

2019 2020 GOES P

Note: Satellites are labeled with letters on the ground and changed to numbers on-orbit

*GOES T and U are currently not baselined for GOES-R series. Flight procurement includes these as options.

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GOES-I/P

ABI Improvements 5 Minute Coverage

GOES-R

ABI covers the earth approximately five times faster than the current Imager.

1/5 Disc Full Disc

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ABI: Improved Resolution

Simulated “ABI” Spectral Bands: Corresponding Simulated GOES Imager Spectral Bands:

. . . over a wider spectrum

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Space Weather Instruments

• • • Essential for the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center’s real-time monitoring, forecasting and warnings of solar and geophysical events and disturbances Provide key measurements for the Radio Blackout Space Weather Scale GOES-R improvements •

Multi-band "color" images at the same rate as GOES N-P produces single band images

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Solar X-ray image dynamic range, resolution, and sensitivity EUV measurements for improved modeling of ionosphere and thermosphere Medium energy radiation environment responsible for spacecraft charging

Solar flares travel towards Earth at about 600,000 to 2 million MPH

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Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM)

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Detects total strikes: in cloud, cloud to cloud, and cloud to ground

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Compliments today’s land based systems that only measures cloud to ground (about 15% of the total lightning)

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Increased coverage over oceans and land

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Currently no ocean coverage, and limited land coverage in dead zones

80 60 40 20 0 -20 -40 -60 -80 -250 -200 -150 -100 longitude (deg) -50 0 50 18

Advanced Sounding

• • • • Hyperspectral Environmental Suite (HES) instrument removed from GOES-R program – August 2006 NOAA continues to have strong requirements for measurements from advanced hyperspectral sounder in Geo orbit Subsequent efforts included: •

Assessment of ABI data for derived sounder products

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NOAA Analysis of Alternatives (AOA) study

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Advanced sounding

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Coastal waters imaging

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Contractor studies of advanced sounding concepts for later GOES spacecraft

Conclusions •

ABI can approximate current GOES sounder capabilities

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A geostationary advanced sounder demonstration mission should be funded as soon as possible

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GOES-R Communications Payload

• Communications

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GOES Rebroadcast (GRB)

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Replacement of today’s GVAR Data rate of 31 Mbps in L-band

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GVAR - 2.11 Mbps

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Previous GRB specifications - 17 Mbps

Low Rate Information Transmissions (LRIT) Emergency Managers Weather Information Network (EMWIN) Search and Rescue (SAR) Data Collection System (DCS) EGVAR (Emulated GVAR)

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Transmission between GOES-N/O/P and GOES-R series

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GVAR like data set consisting of GOES-R data For transmission through existing GOES-N/O/P legacy system

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NPOESS Environmental Data

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NPP Sensor Heritage Overview

• • • • Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) • •

NASA EOS Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) NOAA High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS)

Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) •

NASA Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU)

Visible/Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) • •

NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) NASA MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)

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DMSP Operational Linescan System (OLS) NASA Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS)

Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) • •

NASA Total Ozone Mapping Spectroradiometer (TOMS) NOAA Solar Backscatter UltraViolet Instrument (SBUV/2)

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VIIRS at a Glance

• • • • VIIRS: Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite VIIRS Heritage – OLS: Optical Line Scanner – AVHRR: Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer – SeaWiFS: Sea viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor – MODIS: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer VIIRS will provide operational and research users with: – Spectral coverage from 412 nm to 12 microns in 22 bands • Imagery at ~375 m nadir resolution in 5 bands • Moderate resolution (~750 m at nadir) radiometric quality data – Complete global daily coverage with a single sensor Routine data products – Cloud cover, cloud layers – Cloud and aerosol physical properties – Land & ocean biosphere properties, snow & ice – Sea Surface Temperature, Land & Ice Temperatures – Fire detection 23 23

VIIRS EDRs, IPs, and ARPs

EDR-Environmental Data Record • • • • • • • • •

Land

| IP-Intermediate Product | ARP-Application Related Product Active Fire [ARP] Land Surface Albedo Land Surface Temperature Ice Surface Temperature Sea Ice Characterization Snow Cover/Depth Vegetation Index Surface Type

Imagery & Cloud

• Imagery • Cloud Mask [IP] • Cloud Optical Thickness • Cloud Effective Particle Size Parameter • Cloud Top Parameters • Cloud Base Height • Cloud Cover/Layers

Ocean

Sea Surface Temperature Ocean Color/Chlorophyll

Aerosol

• Aerosol Optical Thickness • Aerosol Particle Size Parameter • Suspended Matter 24 24

VIIRS Surface Albedo

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Sea Ice Characterization

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RGB Image

VIIRS I-Band Radiance for I1-I4 Test Scene: 2003081.1300

VIIRS Imagery

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NPOESS Summary

• • • • VIIRS 22 bands range from 0.412 to 12 microns and include a Day/Night Band • 5 at 371 m resolution at nadir • 16 at 742 m resolution at nadir Complete global daily coverage with a single sensor Routine data products in 4 disciplines • Land • Ocean • Cloud • Aerosol

NOTE: Program looking at all options in case projected large FY 09 funding increase does not occur – and due to difficulties in development of VIIRS instrument

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