Transcript Document 7542572

Digital Services Update
and
Forecast Collaboration
Shannon White
Training Division
March 16, 2004
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Status of Grids
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NWS will issue a PNS by March 31
notifying partners/customers that
comment period has been extended for all
elements through at least June 30
NWS Director will make decision on
NDFD IOC
– Which elements
– What date
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Digital Services Project Office
• Five action teams have been formed to
address issues in digital services
operations
– Kickoff meetings this week
– Representatives on each team from HQ
and regions
– Will develop plans to fix problems across
all aspects of the program
• These plans will be presented to the Operations
sub committee of the Corporate Board on May 5
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Operations
Action Team
Charge: “Develop an action plan to:”
1. Compile an Operations Requirements Document for Digital Services
utilizing output from the action teams and using the new requirements
process.
2. Create a new Digital Services policy and directive structure and incorporate
new digital services Concept of Operations.
3. Implement a process for gathering objective workload data.
4. Ensure workload is sustainable for long-term (i.e. maintain training,
outreach, overall quality of NWS services and situational awareness).
5. Re-examine NCEP’s role in the new paradigm.
6. Examine current directive system and legacy products to evaluate which
products and directives can be streamlined to decrease forecaster workload.
Involve partners and customers in dialogue.
7. Prepare best practices concepts and strategies for implementing culture
change to ensure best practices are implemented
8. Provide input to PPBES team
SR rep – Jack Settelmaier (Melinda
is alternate)
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Assessment
Action Team
Charge: “Develop an action plan to:”
1. Implement a verification capability culminating in a gridded
system and analysis of record.
2. Improve forecaster use of verification site.
3. Develop and publicize verification data on web site to partners
and customers.
4. Develop standards for what constitutes an acceptable
forecast.
5. Examine quality assurance capabilities.
6. Analyze customer and partner feedback and satisfaction on
digital services.
7. Provide input to PPBES team
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Systems and Communications
Action Team
Charge: “Develop an action plan to:”
1. Ensure long-term data retention of official products.
2. Ensure customer and partners have access to NDFD grids in formats
easily used.
3. Ensure external communications and dissemination systems, with
requisite support structure, are sufficient to meet user needs.
4. Ensure customer support system meet requirements.
5. Ensure enhancements to system capabilities are implemented to
meet forecaster needs.
6. Ensure end-to-end AWIPS processing and communications systems
are sufficient to meet forecaster needs.
7. Ensure communication delivery schedules, software, and hardware
are in sync with service requirements.
8. Provide input to PPBES team
NWS
Digital
Services
SR Rep – Paul Kirkwood
(Eric
H. is alternate)
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Outreach and Training
Action Team
Charge: “Develop an action plan to:”
1. Ensure NSTEP process fully reflects needs for NWS Digital
Service training.
2. Educate customers and partners on access to and attributes
of digital data.
3. Develop and implement a Digital Services customer
awareness and feedback (marketing) strategy.
4. Distribute CONOPS to customers by methods such as e-mail,
web site and publish pamphlets.
5. Write article on CONOPS for NWS FOCUS.
6. Provide input to PPBES team
SR Rep – Walt Zaleski NWS Digital Services
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Program Planning (PPBES)
Action Team
Charge: “Develop an action plan to:”
1. Develop program plan through FY 2011 for input to the Planning,
Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES).
Plan must at a minimum address the following areas:
- Incorporate AHPS and all Digital Services
- Expand NDFD to include observations and probabilistic grids
- Incorporate all action team program plans
- Incorporate user needs, and anticipated access and
dissemination technologies
- Incorporate Geographic Information System technologies
- Compatible with existing NOAA Information Technology
plans
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Organization
NWS Digital Services (DS)
Science &
Technology
Committee
Advisory
Operations
Committee
DS Project
Office
Interactive Forecast
Preparation System (IFPS)
Science Steering Team
Advisory
Action Teams (OCWWS DS Team in All)
1. Operations
2. Assessment
3. Systems and Communications
4. Training and Outreach
5. Program Planning
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Remaining Teams
Internet Services
Technology Steering
Smart tool
Rapid Prototype Group
Formatter Group
IFPS Executive Committee
Training Team
Advanced Hydrologic
Prediction Services (AHPS) Team
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Collaboration
• Collaboration with National Centers
– HPC
– NESDIS SAB
– SPC
– TAFB
– OPC
• QPF
• New tool to aid in collaborating wind
fields in a tropical cyclone - Covered!
• Discussion/Questions
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Working with NCEP
• HPC
– Available 24/7 (in 12Planet and phone)
– Short and medium range forecast problems
• NESDIS Satellite Analysis Branch
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New to 12Planet (nesdis_sab)
Satellite precip estimates
QPF
Other satellite interrogation or heavy precip issues
• SPC
– Available on limited basis
– Day 1 and day 2 convective outlooks
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Working with NCEP - Marine
• About 6 months since OPC and TAFB
started participating in 12Planet
– OPC in main NWS_Collaborate room
– TAFB started in separate Marine room
• Main purpose is to collaborate on
needed/desired headlines in marine
products
• Questions – is it working and what can
improve??
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QPF
• Don’t forget about hpc_qpf1 in 12Planet!
– Years of experience in forecasting QPF
• What QPF are we doing?
– Spatially averaged over storm area
– Local effects added where applicable
• You know where sea breezes are favorable
• Use tools such as lightning and precip climo
– HPC has no tie to PoP
• Forecast what they believe will mirror the analysis
(likely?)
– Currently WFOs have tie to 15% PoP
• Should that change?
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Questions?
Comments?
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