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NOAANational Weather Service

Robert BungeOffice of the Chief Information Officer

Robert.Bunge@noaa.gov

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NWS CAP

• Common Alerting Protocol• Lower cost of entry to use mission critical NWS text products

• Integration with GIS technologies

• Enhanced message update and cancellation features

• Multi-lingual and multi-audience messaging

• How NWS Uses CAP: (http://www.weather.gov/alerts-beta)

• Hurricane/Tropical Cyclones

• Severe Weather

• Tsunami Warnings

• Winter Weather

• Wind & Heat Events

• Non-Weather (HazCollect)

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Brief History

• Built and deployed CAP 1.0 feeds in 2004• http://www.weather.gov/alerts/• Built by parsing WMO/text messages• With parallel HTML and RSS feeds• State and county (2006) feeds• Single CAP message contains all alerts• Well accepted, widely used, but calls for more fine grained parsing

• Started CAP 1.1 effort in 2007• http://www.weather.gov/alerts-beta/• Created a cross Weather Enterprise working group

• Held regular meetings to review prototypes• Each CAP message is a unique URI• State/County ATOM indexes, HTML replaced by style sheets• Plan to replace CAP 1.0 in December and go operational• Will serve as a template for future AWIPS produced messages

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Approach

• Past and on-going tasks• Enhance the current experimental web-based CAP beta

feeds• Started in Spring 2009 populating Instruction element• Populate additional CAP elements• Better quality control

• Future tasks (2010-2012)• CAP “Push” streams

• XMPP• Centrally generate CAP messages in WMO "envelope"

and disseminate via traditional NWS “push” dissemination systems

• Generate native CAP using Next Generation Warning Tool with mixed case, expanded character set, and fully populated CAP elements

• Generate WMO-formatted product and CAP message• Continue to disseminate both versions

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• HazCollect Mission• HazCollect Description

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HazCollectAll-Hazards Emergency Message Collection System

• Mission – NOAA/NWS is assigned responsibility by the National Response Framework to “provide public dissemination of critical pre- and post-event information” on NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards (NWR) and other dissemination systems.

• Provides tools to emergency responders and government officials for efficient distribution of alert and warning information to affected population in the event of an emergency. • Message Examples: Hazardous Materials Warning, Fire Warning,

Evacuation Warning, Shelter-in-Place Warning, Amber Alert, Nuclear Power Plant Warning, Civil Emergency Message

• Enables wider distribution of Non-Weather Emergency Messages to:

• NWS dissemination systems including NOAA Weather Radio and NOAA Weather Wire Service, Emergency Managers Weather Information Network (EMWIN)

• Emergency Alert System (EAS)

• Weather enterprise, news media, and others that monitor and distribute NWS data streams

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HazCollect Description

• HazCollect is a nationwide capability developed by NWS in coordination with Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).• Warning authorities create messages on a FEMA-

managed application or a third-party CAP-compliant NWEM authoring tool

• FEMA Disaster Management interoperability platform authenticates users and provides message interoperability amongst parties

• Distribution of Non-Weather Emergency Messages (NWEMs) through NWS dissemination systems