February 29, 2012
Tracy Hansen
Bryon Lawrence
April 2002
Overview
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Project Overview
Prototype Work
Next Steps and Future work
April 2002
Contributors
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Leigh Cheatwood Harris
Paula McCaslin
Yu-ru Chen
Charlie Paxton
Gina Chien
Bunny Pfau
David Etim
Evan Polster
John Ferree
Nico Preston
Tom Filiaggi
Jim Ramer
Chris Golden
Mike Romberg
Herb Grote
Bob Rood
Eve Gruntfest
Kevin Scharfenberg
Tracy Hansen
Steve Schotz
Xiangbao Jing
Logan Smith
Bryon Lawrence
Jennifer Spinney
Tom LeFebvre
Jennifer Valdez
Mark Mathewson
Joe Wakefield
Greg Machala
Susan Williams
April 2002
Collaborations
NWS National Centers
NCEP Development Team
AWIPS II
Extended
AWIPS II
Collaboration
Data Delivery
Thin Client
Verification
NWS Partners
OHD, NWS Hydrologists
Workshop participants
BOU Office
NWSWarn
NSSL PHI
Central Weather
Bureau,Taiwan
RTS
Raytheon Technical Services
MDL
Meteorological Development Lab
NSSL
National Severe Storms Lab
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Iris / iNWS
COMET
RENCI
SSWIM
Social Science Woven
Into Meteorology
University of Wisconsin
Iterative Feedback Process
“Build a little / Test a little”
Prototype
Demo
Sessions
Feedback
User
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Incorporated into
next iteration
Social Science Partner Research
Social Science Woven into
Meteorology (SSWIM)
SSWIM brought on board 2009
Preliminary Results from
Current Research shared at
AMS 2011
Jen Spinney, Researcher
carrying out social science
component of project
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Today, provide a brief overview
of the social science component
and share several practical
applications for the Hazard
Services prototype design.
Funding and Resources
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National Weather Service – OS&T (Office of
Science and Technology)
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GSD DDF (Global Systems Division Discretionary
Director) and Base Funds
CWB (Central Weather Bureau) Taiwan
COMET – University of Southern Florida
Southern Region – NWSWarn
MDL personnel
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Hazard Services Project Portal :
integratedhazards.noaa.gov
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Purpose -- Integrate Hazard Tools
Phase 1
WARNGEN
(< 1 hour)
GHG
(Hours-Days)
Hazard
Services
RiverPro
(Days)
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Purpose -- Integrate Hazard Tools
Phase 2
WARNGEN
(< 1 hour)
GHG
(Hours-Days)
Hazard Services
RiverPro
(Days)
NMAP
(National)
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Purpose -- Two-way Communication
Phase 3
AWIPS II CAVE -Forecasters
Hazards
National
“Cloud”
Impacts
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Web -- Partners:
EM's, Broadcasters
Spotters, Publics
Project History
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2004 OSIP Project / Next Generation Warning Tool team
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Telecons for Concept and Requirements discussions
2008 Workshop Norman OK, 130 attendees
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http://www.weather.gov/warningworkshop
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50% NWS / 50% partners (FEMA, EM’s, etc.)
2009 Integrated Hazard Information Services Workshop
hosted by GSD, 70 attendees
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http://fxa.noaa.gov/NGWT/NGWT_Workshop.html
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Forecasters / partners / developers / social scientists
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Initial User Interface designed for prototyping
2010 Prototyping – Web-based short-fused tornado
warning
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Established basic user interface through rapid forecaster
feedback
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Looking ahead to two-way communication
Project History
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2011 Prototype work
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AWIPS II CAVE Prototypes – short-fused, longfused, hydro
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Utilization of PGEN drawing tools
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GIS data – hospitals, Iris spotter reports, Census
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Design and partial development for “Live Data”
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Web-based prototype (prior to May)
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Attended IWT Workshop – Hydro/Partners
2011 Workshops
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Attended IWT Workshop – Hydro/Partners
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Hazard Services Workshop II (Sept) – Engaged
user community and began defining IOC
requirements
Short-fused Tornado Warning
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Short-fused Tornado Warning
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Long-fused Winter Storm Warning
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Long-fused Winter Storm Warning
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Integrated Hazard Information Services
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Moving from Product-Centric to Information-Centric
Hazard Information
Still need to store both legacy VTEC (Valid Time Event
Code) product-centric information along with “atomic”
information-centric information.
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Hazard Services – Data Storage
National Distributed
Database
Hazard
Creation:
Atomic Hazard
Information
Grids, Polygons,
Points, Paths
(Drawn or Calculated) ->
VTEC Information
Product Generation
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April 2002
Information
Centric
Product Centric
SBN
Next Steps and Future Work
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Summary of Prototyping Work
– Prototyping has
• “Touched on” ~60% of requirements
• Provided a good launching point for gathering
functional requirements and IOC design
• Yet only covers ~20% of the functionality
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Future Work
-- Integrated GSD / RTS team for Phase 1 production
development
-- Goals: OSIP Gate 3 and IOC
-- Development Tasks
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Data Transformation Framework for
algorithms such as Recommenders and Text
Products
Database Solution – working with Iris team on
storage formats, security, authentication
User Interface and Forecast Process –
common GUI for efficient and accurate hazard
generation
Hazard Services across perspectives
A possible step toward integrating AWIPS Applications
• Common Data Access
• Common Tools – iTools, Recommenders,
Text Products
• Collaboration
• Real-time
• Data Sharing
• National Data “Cloud”