Bill Lapenta/Tsengdar Lee

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SPoRT - ROSES Solicitation

• Bill Lapenta/Tsengdar Lee
• NASA Science Mission Directorate
• June 13, 2007

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NASAs Weather Research Activities

• Under Earth Science Research Division/Research
  and Analysis Program and Applied Science Program
• Invest in basic and applied weather research and
  development
• Collaborate closely with NOAA colleagues
• Developed algorithms in satellite data
  assimilation and retrieval
• Applied directly to short and medium range
  weather forecast
• JCSDA and SPoRT are two of the major investments

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NASA Weather Program Activities

• Focuses on the impact of NASA observations on
  weather forecasts both in medium range and in
  short range
• Participates in NASA/NOAA Research and Operation
  (RO) transition
• Fully committed to facilitate transition between
  weather research and operation
• Operational needs (requirement) flow to the
  researchers
• Research results flow to operation
• Operation feedbacks to the research
• Scope is not limited in RO transition
• Supported NASA SPoRT/NOAA NWS SRH workshop to
  discuss research and operation transition
  framework
• Initiated additional discussions with NWS HQ

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Roles in the RO Process
Effort
NOAA Research
NASA Research
NWS
Observation System
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ROSES NRA

• ROSES NRA (Research Opportunities in Space and
  Earth Sciences NASA Research Announcement)
• Element Title Accelerating Operational use of
  Research Data
• NOI Due 7/6/2007 Proposal Due 9/18/2007
• Areas of interest Weather, Climate, and
  Ecological Forecasting
• Focus on transition
• Duration of award 2 years
• Qualification (1) must have prior research
  results showing positive impact, (2) must
  transition to operational centers, (3) must
  establish a transition schedule, and (4)
  operational centers will participate in peer
  review in an ex officio capacity.
• NCEP, NWS HQ (AWIPS), SPoRT and JCSDA are
  identified as conduits

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AWIPS II Project

• Tsengdar Lee, Steve Ambrose and Steve Goodman
  (via telecon) visited Jason Tuell at NWS HQ.
• NASA Goddard working with NWS on sharing
  satellite mission geosphysical parameters. NWS
  and NESDIS is interested in NASAs suite of
  satellites, particularly Glory, Cloudsat and
  Calipso.
• Working to facilitate access to data in near real
  time mode when possible.
• Upon sharing of data, some hybrid products using
  NASA satellite data may be developed with NESDIS.
  NPP is a focus area. Workshop possible and
  being discussed.
• NASAs DEVELOP summer students will be working to
  create JAVA plug-ins for AWIPS-II to test the
  beta version. The students will visit Silver
  Spring to see the AWIPS-II software installation.
• Since resources are being utilized at both
  agencies, MOU discussions are underway but we
  want to take this slow and continue to work
  informally in developing this partnership.