Transcript NOAA Technology Summit Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System for

Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System
(AWIPS II) Extended Overview
for
NOAA Technology Summit
November 3, 2010
Steve Schotz
NWS – Office of Science and Technology
AGENDA
• AWIPS Background and History
• AWIPS II Technology Infusion Scope
• AWIPS II Migration
– Approach and Status
• AWIPS II Extended Projects
– Milestones
– Project Description, Benefits and Status
Overview
AWIPS Impact
AWIPS is absolutely critical not only for
tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods, but also
for man-made and terrorist disasters where
our services are called upon to defend our
homeland security.
It was AWIPS that allowed WFO New
Orleans to provide 4187 Spot Forecasts for
the go-no-go decisions related to what the
President declared was a "Spill of National
Significance".
Warnings
Watches
Advisories
Forecasts
-- Kenneth Graham; Meteorologist-In-Charge,
New Orleans WFO
AWIPS Used at
122 Weather Forecast Offices,
13 River Forecast Centers, & 6 National Centers
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AWIPS Overview
Enterprise Architecture Context
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AWIPS Overview
Information Architecture
USERS
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en
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iro
LOCAL EXTERNAL
USERS;
COMPUTER
SYSTEMS;
OBS PLATFORMS
AND NETWORKS
Cooperativ e
Observ ers
v
En
PROFILER
Atmospheric
Profiles
MICROART
USERS
MDCRS
Commercial Aircraft
Data
Lightning
Data
NWSTG
NCF
Upper Air
Observations
Gateway
for International & NonNOAA Domestic products
Class 4
NIDS
NCDC
Weather Radar
Products
NEXRAD
Surface
Observations
Official User
Products
NWWS
NWR
Fore cas te r
- Product Formulation
- Data Integration & Analysis
- Forecasting
- Services Dissemination
(Services
Dissemination)
USERS
Dissemination
Modeling & Product Generation
Data Collection
Platform s (DCP)
- Calibration Data
Modeling
- Interactive Data
Analysis
POES
Data
POES
Data
POES
Space craft
WALLOPS
CDA
DCP
Data
Satellite
Distribution &
Processing
GOES
Data
GOES
I-M
Space craft
USERS
USERS
Systems Legend
Ocean
Obs
- Satellite Product Gen
- Satellite Operation
ASOS
-Surface
Observing
Observing
- Numerical Predictions
- Large-scale
Forecaster Guidance
NSOF/
NESDIS
ESPC
Official User
Products
- RADAR Reflectivity
Measurement
- RADAR Product Gen
GOES I-M, Polar
Orbiter, and
Other Satellite Data
(NCF)
-Archiving
Level 2 &
Level 3 Data
World-Wide Data
Collection &
Distribution
NCEP
AWIPS
Data
on
me
nt
GTS
NCEP
Guidance,
Observations,
& Offical User
Products
LDAD
Retrospective
Users
En
vir
FAA Data
Official User
Products,
Observations, &
Graphics
(May Interface Locally
at Site or Centrally
VIA NWSTG
Upper Air
Observing
Lightning
Detection
Remote Surface
Observing
Environment
- Radiance Measurements
- DCP Data Collection &
Distribution
“AWIPS is the Integrating Element
of the Weather Service”
* Note some systems perform multiple functions, e.g. LDAD disseminates information and receives observations
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AWIPS Tech Infusion
Background
• Late 80s – Early 90s: AWIPS I developed
• 1997: AWIPS I deployed
• 2004: NWS review identified AWIPS software as major obstacle to
meeting future mission requirements
– Costly to maintain
– Challenging to infuse new science and applications
• 2006: NWS executed contract option for AWIPS II-related projects
AWIPS
Port Functionality
to Flexible
Architecture
AWIPS II
Migration
Extend Unified
Baseline & Continue
Functional
Improvement
AWIPS II
Extended
and
S&T Infusion
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AWIPS Tech Infusion
Background
• AWIPS II Migration: Migrate current AWIPS functionalities to a “Service
Oriented Architecture” (SOA)
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Improve maintainability and stability via streamlined, extensible software
Reduce time to transition from 18 months to 9 months
Reduce software development time for new products by 50%
Increase software release frequency from 2 to 4 per year
• AWIPS II Extended: Implement on-going pre-planned, major infrastructure
enhancements
– Extend AWIPS II architecture to the entire NWS weather enterprise
• Enables more seamless product suite among NWS operational centers, e.g., National Centers,
WFOs
• Improves efficiencies in developing new capabilities that can be used across the NWS weather
enterprise
– Implement system-wide infrastructure enhancements
• Smart Push/Pull technologies to enable AWIPS to handle increased data volumes associated
with major agency initiatives, e.g., GOES-R, Higher resolution models, etc.
• Real-time collaboration among NWS operators and between NWS operators and partners, e.g.,
Emergency Managers to support improved product consistency, quality and decision assistance
• Streamlined information generation dissemination and access for partners to support decision
assistance
• Improve data visualization to support situational awareness and decision assistance
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AWIPS II Migration
Re-Architecture Approach
and Status
• Approach
– Perform “black-box” conversion
• Preserve existing functionality, look and feel on top of new
infrastructure
– Thorough field validation and acceptance before deployment
– No loss of functionality
• Deployed system current with deployed AWIPS capability (i.e., OB9)
– Use open source projects - No proprietary code
– Objective is to make AWIPS II available for collaborative
development
• Status
– Operational Test and Evaluation (OTE) - In progress
– Deployment Begins – Fall 2011
AWIPS II Extended Projects
High-Level Objective
Project
Target Completion
Extend AWIPS II Infrastructure to
Entire NWS Forecaster Enterprise
NAWIPS Migration
Deploy
Fall 11
Thin Client Deploy
3Q12
WES Bridge Deploy
WES Integration Deploy
Fall 11 (Deployed with AWIPS II)
4Q12
Data Delivery – IOC
Data Delivery - FOC
2Q13
FY13-14
Collaboration – Phase I
Collaboration – Phase II
Collaboration - Phase III
4Q12
FY13-14
FY14-15
Information Generation
FOC
FY14
3D Visualization IOC
FY14
Implement System-Wide
Enhancements to Benefit Entire
AWIPS Enterprise
AWIPS II Extended - NAWIPS Migration
• Objectives
– Incorporate NAWIPS capabilities into AWIPS SOA
• Key Benefits
– Enables more cost-effective software development environment for common
requirements across the NWS enterprise; Helps enable software agility
– Lays ground work for more effective collaboration and seamless products across
NWS enterprise (NCs, WFOs, RFCs, CWSUs) by providing common
infrastructure
– Strengthens NWS partnership with University Community by providing entire
suite of AWIPS capabilities – Helps enable more efficient R to O and O to R
– Improves support for OCONUS Regions by providing common software
infrastructure for NAWIPS and AWIPS functionality
– Enables opportunity to provide NAWIPS capabilities to NWS enterprise
• Status
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Software Migration nearly complete
Pre-OTE begins in November 2010
OTE Testing to occur at Centers Winter-Summer of 2011
Deployment – Fall 2011
AWIPS II Extended - AWIPS II Thin
Client
• Objectives
– Develop enterprise solution for remote access to AWIPS capabilities
• Key Benefits
– Incorporate FX-Net capabilities into baseline
– Provides common solution to address remote access requirements to
support Incident Meteorologists, e.g., Fire Wx, Weather Service Offices,
etc.
– Allows remote users to have access to latest set of AWIPS capabilities
– Provides partial solution for COOP scenarios at NCs and RFCs
– In combination with Data Delivery Project, allows us to begin to analyze
future opportunities for utilizing cloud computing
• Status
– ConOPS defined
– Prototyping and system analysis of AWIPS II SOA conducted
– Production design – In progress
AWIPS II Extended - Weather Event
Simulator (WES)
• Objectives
– Develop enterprise solution to support NWS training
requirements
• Phase I: Provide bridge for current WES capability into AWIPS II.
Also serves as a pathfinder for Phase II
• Phase II: Develop integrated solution for AWIPS enterprise
• Key Benefits
– Provides robust, sustainable baseline solution to support NWS
training requirements
– Allows training users to have access to latest built set of
AWIPS capabilities
– Provides training solution for all AWIPS applications
• Status
– WES Bridge development in progress; on target with AWIPS
II deployment
AWIPS II Extended - Data Delivery
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Objectives
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Develop robust data delivery system within AWIPS II infrastructure that enables efficient access to high
volume datasets
Develop operational robust infrastructure to support “intelligent” access to non-local datasets
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Key Benefits
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Supports high impact based forecast and decision assistance processes by allowing users to access just the
data they need by space, time, parameter; Enables more efficient data mining
Enables effective on-demand access to Weather Information Database
Enables synergy and interoperability with NextGen technologies, e.g., data discovery services, data access
services and data providers.
Mitigates high growth in data volume e.g. ensembles, high-resolution models and GOES-R
Multi-Phase Implementation
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Data Discovery
User defined sub-setting by space, time, and parameter
Subscription or Ad-hoc access methods based on weather events
IOC Focus – NWS data providers, e.g., NOMADS, MADIS, possibly with basic services only, discovery,
sub-setting – Target FY13
Status
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ConOPS for IOC defined
Prototyping in AWIPS II in progress
High-level Architecture/Design in progress
AWIPS II Extended Collaboration
• Objectives
– Develop capabilities to support real-time collaboration
– Phase I: Develop/Enhance internal NWS collaboration capabilities
– Phase II: Develop/Enhance IOC collaboration capabilities with external
partners
– Phase III: Improve collaboration capabilities with external partners
• Key Benefits
– Enables more effective collaboration across all levels of NWS
promoting a more coordinated and seamless set of products and
services – Fosters consistency of NWS products and services
– Enables interoperability between NWS and decision makers, e.g.,
emergency managers to support Decision Support Services
• Status
– ConOPS for Phase I defined
– Prototyping in AWIPS II in progress
Phase I Collaboration
ConOps
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Data display sharing
– This capability will allow participating NWS offices to view each other’s AWIPS data
displays during collaboration sessions
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Telestrator Functions
– Simple line drawing capabilities, that will allow forecasters to draw and erase temporary
lines and polygons on their AWIPS displays that can be viewed by participating
collaborators.
– Telestrator functions will help forecasters identify and discuss specific features of interest,
e.g., satellite and radar storm signatures, etc.
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Creation and editing of hydrometeorological objects
– Creation, editing and exchange of geo-referenced objects and products such as fronts, areas
of severe weather, troughs and ridges, etc. and graphical products such as watches and
warnings.
– Meteorological objects and products will be displayed and/or exchanged among the
participating collaborators allowing participants to import these graphics and display them
in AWIPS applications. The display and exchange of meteorological objects and products
will allow sites to collaborate in real-time on object or product features such as location,
shape, and intensity.
– Object and product attributes such as front type, product type, etc; will also be saved so
that they are available for forecaster access and editing.
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An integrated text chat capability that will allow forecasters to chat during the
collaboration session.
AWIPS II Extended – Information Generation
• Objective
– Develop infrastructure to support common set of information generation services
and tools to support decision assistance
• Key Benefits
– Enables AWIPS tools and Decision Maker tools for decision support
• Streamlines generation of products to support emerging industry standards, e.g., CAP
and GIS
• Reduces development time associated with the introduction of new products and services
• Enables generation of NWS products from both local data bases and the 4-D weather
Data Cube
• Opportunities for synergy with IRIS project
• Status
– Initial capabilities encapsulated in Integrated Hazard Services (IHIS) Project
• Overall Objective - Consolidate watch/warning/hazard product generation and provide
information to external partners
– Exploratory development in progress
AWIPS II Extended - Advanced
Visualization
• Objective
– Develop advanced visualizations techniques, e.g., 3-D
visualization that can be utilized by AWIPS baseline
applications
• Key Benefits
– Enables more effective forecaster visualization of datasets to
support forecast and decision making processes.
• Methods to improve situational awareness
• Methods to improve identification of factors that affect high impact
events
• Status
– Requirements definition/exploratory development to begin
in FY12
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