National Weather Service Office of Dissemination

Committee for Operational Processing Centers (COPC)

Luis CanoDirector, Office of Dissemination

May 28, 2015

Agenda

• NOAA Integrated Dissemination Program (IDP) Overview (part of the NWS Dissemination Portfolio)

• IDP Status• Subset of Projects Hosted/Sponsored by IDP

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Integrated Dissemination Program (IDP) Overview

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• Diagram illustrates IDP capabilities to deliver an integrated enterprise-wide dissemination service

NOAAIntegrated Dissemination Program

• Satellite Broadcast Network (SBN)• GOES-R /

Himawari-8 Re-broadcast Antenna System

LAN

NWSTG Steady State

IDP Private Cloud NWS and Customers

Local Admin& Monitor

NWSNetwork NOAA’s

Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Product Distribution and Access System

NWS Ground Readiness

Project (GRP)

NextGen IT Web Services

Advanced Weather Interactive Processing

System II

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Status:NWS Telecommunications Operations Center (TOC)

Merge with NCEP Central Operations (NCO)

NCO College Park NCO Silver Spring

Benefits of MergerIT Processes / Security

• Centralization of all Operations organizational and administrative practices in progress• Merge Configuration Management processes• Centralize WMO GISC services

What does this mean for COPC? The realignment of our Organizations and IT infrastructure will better serve the needs of our partners

24x7 monitoringWCOSS, IDP, NCEP WAN

24x7 monitoring OPSnet, NIDS, ASOS, NEXRAD

• On April 1, 2015, NCO and the TOC operations and staff merged as part of NWS Headquarters Reorganization• NCO Director became system owner of OPSnet and NWSTG systems• All NWS network services, support, and maintenance centralized with reorganization

Status: NWS Telecommunications Gateway (NWSTG)

Migration to NOAA IDP Private Cloud

Migrating NWSTG functions and data services to NOAA’s IDP private cloud in College Park, MD and Boulder, CO by FY2017

• June 2015: NIDS (weather.gov) operational on IDP College Park system• July 2015: ASOS Operations and Monitoring Center (AOMC) and National Law Enforcement

Telecommunications System (NLETS) scheduled to be moved into IDP production• August 2015: All FTP and FNMOC data services transitioned under the IDP data center in College Park, MD • Estimated Completion – December 2016

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Benefits of NWSTG MigrationIT Processes / Security / Budgetary / Operational Stability

• All applications and networks will be managed by a single entity => improved customer service

• System and application support and monitoring for NCO CP and SS streamlines and consolidated

• Reliable and timely dissemination of all critical weather warnings and products

• Fully deployed backup (Boulder) and geographically diverse NWSTG infrastructure

• Ability to support increased volume of model, radar, and observational data

• All applications ported will have budgetary support required to sustain operations

Status: IDP Private Cloud in Boulder, CO

• Design and phase one construction is complete• Final build out in Boulder planned for FY 2016 Q2 completion

– Backup capabilities for all current operational IDP services (HRRR, MRMS, etc., ) running on IDP at the College Park, MD facility

– NWSTG services and data flow will continue to be migrated resulting in more services having redundant capabilities once Boulder, CO goes live

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Status:IDP Boulder Build Out

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CT set and piped

IDP Racks RowNetwork Patch Racks Installed

Phase 1 backbone cable

Current images of progress of IDP Boulder Build Out

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Project Overview Sponsored by IDP:GRB/H8RB Antenna Systems

The GRB/H8RB antenna project is replacing today’s NWS Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) and Multi-Functional Transport Satellite (MTSAT) antenna systems for the GOES-R and Himawari 8/9 series of satellites at eight (8) NWS field offices.

GOES-R Overview – Major NESDIS GOES-R Systems

The new NWS antenna systems will:• Receive, ingest and process GOES-R

and H8 rebroadcast data

• Run basic algorithms (for imagery and Level 2 products (future capability)

• Interface with NWS networks for: product distribution to NWS

forecaster workstations, i.e., to Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS II)

product distribution to other key NWS field offices and NGDC

local and remote monitoring local and remote troubleshooting

• Provide continuity of operations into the GOES-R/GRB and Himawari era Operational for GOES-R ground

readiness

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Project Overview Hosted by IDP:Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS)

• MADIS is a meteorological database and data delivery system that covers the globe.• MADIS provides a high resolution (temporal and spatial), higher quality, easy access observational data system for NOAA and

the greater meteorological community. • MADIS helps improve weather forecasting, by providing support for data assimilation, numerical weather prediction, and other

hydrometeorological applications.• Achieve this by leveraging partnerships with international agencies; federal, state, and local agencies; universities; volunteer

networks; and the private sector to integrate their stations with those of NOAA.• On January 22, 2015 MADIS went live in NWS operations at the NWS’ National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)

Central Operations (NCO) as part of the Integrated Dissemination Program (IDP).https://madis.ncep.noaa.gov/

66,127 stations from over 160 surface networks producing nearly 13 million observations per day154 Profiler sites (>200,000 observations per day)>650,000 aircraft observations per dayPlus global radiosonde and satellite observations

Project Overview Hosted by IDP:Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor System (MRMS) (1 of 2)

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The Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) system integrates radar, surface observations, satellite data, and numerical analysis and prediction and generates an automated, seamless national mosaic of 3-D reflectivity, storm attributes and precipitation phase

• Resolution of 0.01°lat x 0.01°lon with a 2 min update cycle

• Enhances NWS Decision Support capabilities by providing quality-controlled 3D radar mosaics for analysis, forecasting, verification, and NWP model initialization

MRMS was created by NSSL and transitioned to real-timeNWS operations on 9/30/2014 where it runs on the IDP Processing Infrastructure

• NSSL built and maintains an MRMS development environment nearly identical to IDP system in content and data flow to test and evaluate new science and technologies for operational implementation.

Project Overview Hosted by IDP:Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor System (MRMS) (2 of 2)

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• Over the next two major upgrades, MRMS will become the radar provider for NWS RIDGE II and MRMS will become the single authoritative source for CONUS wide mosaics

• By the end of 2015, MRMS will add on additional domains in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the western Pacific

• MRMS Full Operating Capability, which will run the full suite of products operationally over all domains, is scheduled to occur in July 2016

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Project Overview Hosted by IDP:NOAA/NOS nowCOAST GIS Web Mapping Portal

Migration to ArcGIS Server & NOAA IDP Infrastructure (1 of 2)

• NOAA/NOS nowCOAST is a GIS-based web mapping portal displaying near real-time observations, analyses, imagery, tide predictions, model guidance, watches/warnings/advisories, and forecasts for the coastal United States.

– Provides situational awareness/coastal intelligence on present and future environmental conditions for coastal and marine users by integrating data and information from across NOAA as well other federal agencies such as USGS and EPA.

• New experimental Version of nowCOAST available at: http://new.nowcoast.noaa.gov.

Known DOD and DHS users/partners:• US Air Force Weather Agency/Air Mobility Command at Scott Air Force Base’s map viewers are presently consuming maps

from nowCOAST map services until they can overcome an IT connectivity issue and switch AFWA data sets instead.• DOD/U.S. Marine Corps’ Geofidelis East Map Viewer connects to nowCOAST’s map services and has done so for more

than 5 years– The USMC’s map viewer is used by USMC Emergency Operations Centers across the East Coast

• DOD/National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)• DHS National Operations Center• DHS/US Coast Guard• DHS Integrated Common Analytic Viewer (iCAV) map viewer

– Using iCAV, homeland security partners can establish a comprehensive situational and strategic awareness across the nation and around the globe to better prepare, prevent, respond and recover from natural and man-made disasters. Users are able to see critical infrastructure information in a dynamic map form and provides access to numerous data sources in one central location.

Project Overview Hosted by IDP:NOAA/NOS nowCOAST GIS Web Mapping Portal

Migration to ArcGIS Server & NOAA IDP Infrastructure (2 of 2)

nowCOAST v4.10 @ NOS nowCOAST v5.0 @ NOAA IDP

Benefits of Migration

New Map Viewer New Map Services NOAA IDP Hosting Facility

• Modern look and feel, easier to use• Unified time control for all layers• Animation• Able to use ESRI Base Maps• Able to overlay external map services

• Provide time-enabled services• Provide ArcGIS REST & WMS access• Better performance, scalability• More functionality• Easier administration• Additional data layers

• Provide 24 x 7 monitoring & response• Backup Site• Direct access to many input data sets• Provide high reliability for users & partners

Milestone: nowCOAST v5.0 becomes operational at NOAA IDP in late August 2015.

ArcIMS/Oracle Based

ArcGIS Server/PostgreSQL Based

Provide users with situational awareness/coastal intelligence for coastal & marine users by integratingnear-real-time, watches/warnings, & forecasts of weather, oceanographic, and hydrological conditions from across NOAA and other federal agencies.

http://nowcoast.noaa.gov http://new.nowcoast.noaa.gov

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Questions?

• Thank you.