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NWS Science & Technology

Roadmap, V 1.0

(under review, debate, coordination)

Preparing for Tomorrow… Today

Don Berchoff, Director Office of Science & Technology

June 25, 2009 Prepared For Our Partners

NWS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP





Overview

Preparing for Tomorrow… Today









 Guiding Principles

 Roadmap Construct

 Service Area Goals; Research Needs and Opportunities

 Potential Societal Benefits

 Example Service Area Roadmap

 Enabling Capabilities Goals

 Schedule & Milestones









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Guiding Principles

NWS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP









OST Mission: Drive S&T Advances into NWS

Operations

Preparing for Tomorrow… Today









 Meet NWS Strategic Plan S & T objectives

 Develop service area stretch goals to rally and

influence Nation’s research strategies, plans and

investments

 Harness the Nation’s best expertise to solve

scientific challenges

 Field next generation observing/forecast systems

to…

 Ensure timely, accurate and relevant weather information for

governmental decision makers, general public, private

industry

 Ensure rapid, on-demand access to information for

all… from sophisticated user to “Joe the plumber”

3

Roadmap Construct

NWS

Strategic

Plan •Observations

•Fire Weather ID Next

•Data Assimilation

•Hydrology Generation

Enabling •Forecasting:

•Aviation

Service Capabilities •Models

•Severe Weather

Science Areas •Post Processing

•Winter Weather

Research •Human Aided

•Marine

Thrusts •Dissemination

•Tropical Weather

•Decision Support

•Climate

Research •Verification & Metrics

•Air Quality Partners •Customer Outreach, Feedback

•Space Weather

Test Beds Technologies

•Tsunami

/Service •Social Sciences

•Sensible Wx & Health Impacts

•Emerging areas Proving

Grounds

(e.g. energy, ecosystems) •Universities

•Government Labs

S&T Research to •Private Industry

Operations

Protection of Life and Property

Enhanced National Economy

4

Service Area Goals and Research

Thrusts

Science Service Key Products/ S&T Goal 2025 Research Needs and

Area Services Examples Opportunities: Examples

Fire Weather Red Flag Warning >24hr Lead Time (LT) Simulations (high-resolution) of integrated

fire weather/behavior

Hydrology Inundation Forecasts Dependable Street Scale Probabilistic Physically based hydrologic models and

Warnings ensembles

Aviation Convection Initiation 30 mins LT Initiation and evolution of convection



Severe Weather Tornado Warning Warn on Forecast, LT > 1hr Improved understanding of tornado

formation and severe weather microphysics

Winter Weather Winter Hazards High-Res User-Defined Thresholds Snow band formation and snow intensity



Marine Storm Warnings Probabilistic Warning, LT > 5 days Improve wave model physics from shelf to

shore

Tropical Weather Hurricane Track, Intensity Errors reduced by 50% Causes of rapid intensity changes

Forecasts

Climate Seasonal/IA Forecasts Accurate 6 month+ LTs on forcing Earth system modeling with ensemble

events prediction and uncertainty

Air Quality Air Quality Predictions Accuracy >85% out to day 5 Advanced simulations of generation and

reactive chemical transport of airborne

particulate matter

Space Weather Geomagnetic Storm >90% accuracy, out to day 2 Data Assimilation: Ionosphere,

Warnings Magnetosphere, and Solar Wind

Tsunami Tsunami Warnings <5 mins after triggering event Enhanced observations and models



Emerging Areas/ Wind Forecasts 1km resolution, 5 min updates Meteorological influences on renewable and

Surface Wx sustainable energy systems



5

NWS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP



Potential Societal Benefits

Service Area Improvements Potential Benefits

Preparing for Tomorrow… Today









Tropical Cyclone, Track, Reduce $10B/yr in trop

Intensity, Precip Forecasts cyclone damage



Tornado and Flash Flood Reduce $1B/yr in

Warnings damage from severe wx



Aviation, Fire, and Marine Reduce $60 B/yr losses

Forecasts from air traffic delays



Reduce $4.3B/yr in

Flood and River Predictions flood damage



Reduce mortality from

Air Quality Predictions 50,000/yr from poor AQ



Reduce $365M/yr in

Space Weather losses (power industry)



Seasonal Climate Forecasts for Reduce $7B/yr in

Energy, Agriculture, Ecosys, etc losses (drought) 6

Tropical Cyclone Roadmap

Vision

R&D Needs and Opportunities Finer scale and highly accurate

• Cause of rapid intensity changes track, intensity and inundation

forecasts that trigger appropriate

• Key observations needed for improved forecasting responses resulting in reduced loss

• Air-sea fluxes under quiet and disturbed conditions of life and economic impacts



• Predictability limits

• Vortex-convection-environment interactions

• Microphysics of convection at high-resolution

• Social Science

• Halved track &

• Wind radii forecasts intensity forecast

• Track forecast to 7 to 5 days errors

days

• Wind& surge impact • Warnings and

• Detailed storm- forecasts prior to

surge/inundation guidance to 36-hr

forecasts cyclogenesis

• Improved rapid

• Improved tropical • Communication of

cyclone precip intensity change, accurate, street

estimates POD and FAR level evacuation



2009 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 25



Time 7

NWS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP



Enabling Capabilities Goals

 Integrated observing and analysis system

Preparing for Tomorrow… Today









 Coupled, integrated environmental modeling: data assimilation, prediction,

post-processing (e.g. ensembles)

 Next Generation 4-D Forecast System

 Optimize for high impact events

 Forecaster decision support tools, applications with government-

centric information architectures

 Dynamic training capabilities

 4D Digital Weather Information Database (WIDB)

 Transformed dissemination/communication/outreach capabilities

 Incorporated social sciences strategies in research and operations







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Integrated Observation/Analysis

System





Current Analysis Strategies Future

National Mesonet

Individual Systems Inventory systems, Weather Information

Public and metadata Network of Database

Private standards Networks

Universities

Assess Integrated Radar

interdepend- (Lidar, gap-fillers,

encies, MPAR)

oversampling, Global Systems System C

Radar

gaps, levels of System B

Satellite criticality Multisensor System A

In-Situ platforms Satellites

Upper Air Optimization with Rawindsones

Etc OSEs, OSSEs Integrated Radar System

IOOS

Standards, MADIS

Architectures,

Protocols

Open Architecture

Maximize value of

investment

Coupled, Integrated Environmental

Modeling System

Atmospheric Model Earth System Models

Ocean

Components

Land Surface

Air Quality

Dynamics Physics Chemistry

Space



Couplers Hydrology

Multi-component ensemble Ecosystem

+ Ensembles Weather

Stochastic forcing Industry

Etc







4D Data Assimilation

e.g. 4D Var, EnKF, hybrids Resolution Changes, Downscaling WIDB

Post Processing

Bias Correction, Statistical Methods,

Ensembles

Product Generation

Verification









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Next Generation 4-D Forecast System

Optimized for High Impact Weather

Events/Uncertainty

Where can I add

What matters? value today?



Where’s the

In-Situ uncertainty?

Post-

Processing

In-Situ

Post-

Processing









Intelligence

Augmentation

NWS Forecaster

Smart Tools Future



System Algorithms

NWS Forecaster

Today Artificial Intelligence

Next Generation 4-D Forecast System

High Impact Weather Events (Notional)

User Input







User Input









NWS informs public decision makers for public safety, security 12

Next Generation 4D

Forecast System

Decision Support Services









Common operating picture to help aid forecasters identify weather

threats with the most impact on airspace operations

Next Generation 4-D

Forecast System:

Decision Support

Emergency

Managers NWS

Forecasters









Weather Information

Database supports

interoperability—

common operating

picture

Advanced Communication/Collaboration Capabilities



IMETS

Responders



Emergency

Operations Center

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Weather Information Database

Weather Private

Industry Industry



Observations Private Sector Forecasting

Numerical

Prediction

Satellites Systems



Postprocessed NWS

Probabilistic Forecaster

Radars Output

WIDB

Cube



Aircraft



Automated Forecast

Surface Systems







Forecast Integration

Soundings









Decision Custom Custom

Support Graphic Alphanumeric

Systems Generators Generators





Governmental Decision Making 15

Transform Dissemination/

Communication/Outreach Architectures

for NWS Users

GIO/GPMO GIS Pros at NWS

GIS Team

NWS Web Team

IRIS

NWS Internal

Shapefiles Customer

Help Desk/

Help

AWIPS









“Tier 1

Desk

Offices using

NOAA

Support”

AWIPS

GIS data

work stations



Legacy

Climate Outlook

Storage NDFD

WIDB Internet

Watches/warnings Access Government

Legacy Data in OGC

Apps Geospatial

Compliant

Agencies

Radar Database



format General Public

Hurricane Tracks

Geo-

WFS Private Weather

database Etc

Industry

WCS

Firewall









Geospatial

Reference

Information WMS

GIS Apps: NWS

Support, Admin. KML

& Mgmt.

Incorporate Social Sciences

Strategies in Research & Operations

• Probabilistic Forecasts

High

• Communicating Forecast Uncertainty









Public

Social Weather

Science Industry Public Educated on use of

Infusion Decision Makers probabilistic

guidance to ensure

Incorporating best response

Forecasters Uncertainty for

Managing Risk and

Human Factors, Making Decisions

Private Sector

Communicating

Uncertainty

Sophisticated

Low Users

Today Time

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NWS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP



Roadmap

Schedule, Milestones, and Status

PHASE I

Preparing for Tomorrow… Today









 Establish Framework Team 17 Nov 2008

 Framework Brief to Corporate Board 10 Dec 2008



PHASE II 21 Dec 2008

 Roadmap plenary workshop 3 Feb 2009

 Capstone Group completes initial draft 27 Mar 2009

 Update for NOAA/NWS leadership Apr 2009

(Progressive updates. Next update by August 2009)

 Focus Area Teams complete robust outlines (briefing) 30 Jun 2009



PHASE III

• Stakeholder input compiled Oct 2009

 Draft Capstone Document Nov 2009

 Full Documentation of Focus Area Plans (10-14pp each) Nov 2009

 All S&T Roadmap documents published early 2010



Status 6/15

 Completed

 In progress

 Milestone

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NWS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP

Preparing for Tomorrow… Today



Questions









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