ZOOM Business Plan

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NOAAs Surface Weather Program Update from
August 2006 Safe and Efficient Commerce and
Transportation Information to Move the Nation
Metadata Task Force September 29, 2006
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NOAA Surface Weather Program

• NOAA is responsible for protecting life and
  property and promoting safe and efficient
  commerce and transportation
• Weather contributes to over 7,400 fatalities,
  over 700,000 injuries, and 1,500,000
  weather-related
• highway crashes per year
• Representing the needs of all surface
  transportation sectors, i.e., roadways, rail,
  transit and pipeline operations
• Opportunity to improve safety
• with timely weather information
• that is transportation-relevant

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Surface Weather within NOAAs Commerce
Transportation Goal

• Commerce and Transportation Goal / Program
  management
• CT Goal Lead CAPT Steven Barnum, NOAA
• Program Manager Mr. Michael Campbell, NWS
• Themes
• Safe, secure, efficient and seamless movement of
  people and goods in the U.S. transportation
  system
• Environmentally sound development and use of the
  U.S. transportation system
• Port to Door
• MADIS Transition to Operations
• National Surface Weather Observing System (NSWOS)
• Within the NWS Telecommunications Gateway (NWSTG)
• MADIS transition is key to providing data
  management support for CT and NWS mission
• Integration of other NOAA and non-NOAA networks
• NOAA essential services and customer requirements

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MADIS An Overview

• Data management system thats flexible,
  expandable and interoperable an architecture
  for the future
• Provides government and non-government mesonet,
  upper-air, and coastal data to NOAA and the
  enterprise
• Data are stratified informed by metadata
• Transitioning MADIS to the NWSTG will provide
  24x7 maintenance support with offsite system
  backup
• Leverages NOAAs extensive data management
  infrastructure and investment

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Surface Weathers Contribution to an Integrated
Earth Observing System

• Development of the National Surface Weather
  Observation System (based on MADIS
  functionality)
• Demonstrates the capacity to link surface-based
  (land and ocean) and air observation platforms
• Facilitates (via decoders, metadata, quality
  control and accepted formats) the exchange of
  data and information
• Provides data to improve decision-makers
  abilities to address pressing policy issues
• Identifies gaps in our international
  (continental) observational capacity.

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NOAAs Future Data Management
Transferring the Meteorological Assimilation
Data Ingest System (MADIS) into Operations
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The MADIS Difference
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Operational Concept
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Benefits of Transition

• Organizes diverse data sets from multitude of
  sources into data managed sets of information
  bases
• Simplifies data gathering and creates 1-STOP
  shopping for NOAA and it customers
• Standardizes NOAAs data collection and
  processing functions
• Services NOAAs partners (e.g., NIDIS, DOT)
  within architecture
• Non-NOAA entities enthusiastic about cooperating
  with NOAA
• Shows good government involvement
• Reduces overall NOAA costs
• Expandable, scalable, flexible, and low-cost
  solution for changing conditions and technologies
• Reduces requirement for new hardware, software,
  and communications

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Program Milestones

• Milestones
• Initial Operating Capability of MADIS in NWSTG
• Full Operating Capability of MADIS (i.e., NSWOS)
  in NWSTG
• Add more RWIS observations
• Real-time observations from mobile sensors
  available operationally

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NOAAs Enterprise Partnerships Partnering for
Data, Improved Service

• SAFETEA-LU has fantastic potential for future of
  transportation community
• Thousands to millions of obs to assist decisions
• Potential for new applications
• Input to a variety of models public and private
• Supports warnings and forecasts, verification
• Data sharing

National Surface Weather Observation System -
NSWOS (Operational MADIS)
NOAA and Non-NOAA Data
Enterprise Servers
Input Output
Clarus VII Programs
Digital Database Forecast Service
Detailed, Road Section Specific Products
Watches Warnings Advisories (county/area-specif
ic)
Research, Academic, and Transportation Interface
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Developments Reported 8/06

• NWS Transition Project Manager selected
• NWS contract support
• Planned Integrated Work Teams
• Leveraging FHWA Clarus experience
• Continued compliance with NOAA and NWS transition
  policies and requirements

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Latest Developments

• Contract support awarded
• Expertise in
• System engineering
• Blade clustering
• Documentation and requirements

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Latest Developments

• Contractors to assist with
• Developing technical and operational requirements
• Documents required by NWS and NOAA
• Risk reduction activities in preparation of
  transition
• Technology demonstration as part of risk
  reduction

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Latest Developments

• Plan is to demonstrate MADIS functionality in NWS
  operations as an Initial Operating Capability
  (IOC)
• NOAA to evolve system (NSWOS) to incorporate
  expanded functionality, capabilities, and user
  requirements, at Full Operating Capability (FOC)
• Offsite Backup
• 24x7 operational support

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Latest Developments

• NSWOS will meet the needs of specific
  communities, but at same time NOAA wants
  integration of disparate observation systems and
  formats
• NOAA plans to have a Users Workshop in late
  FY07, to collect external requirements and
  further define formats and data delivery