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<td colspan="11"><p><strong>User Request Form</strong></p>
<p><strong>For a NESDIS</strong></p>
<p><strong>Satellite Product or Service</strong></p></td>
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<td colspan="11"><strong>NESDIS INPUT</strong></td>
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<td colspan="11"><p><strong>1. Tracking Number: 0503-01</strong></p>
<p><strong>2. Date Received: March 25, 2005</strong></p>
<p><strong>3. Amendments Date(s): April 15, 2005. April 21, 2005. May
12, 2005.</strong></p>
<p><strong>4. Significant Notes: the SPSRB Manager held this request
pending product specification and approving authority information,
received April 21 2005. For general information, the original tropical
cyclone product request is 0308-10.</strong></p></td>
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<td colspan="11"><strong>USER INPUT</strong></td>
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<td colspan="11"><strong>5. Request Title: Tropical Cyclone Formation
Product</strong></td>
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<td colspan="11"><p><strong>6. User Project Leader (Agency or office,
Name, Phone, Fax &amp; email): Joel Cline</strong></p>
<p><strong>NWS/PRH 737 Bishop Street, Suite 2200</strong></p>
<p><strong>Honolulu, Hawaii 96813</strong></p>
<p><strong>(808)532-6414</strong></p>
<p><strong>FAX (808)532-5569</strong></p>
<p><a
href="mailto:Joel.cline@noaa.gov"><strong>Joel.cline@noaa.gov</strong></a></p></td>
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<td colspan="11"><p><strong>7. Operational Points of Contact (Agency or
office, Name, Phone, Fax &amp; email):</strong></p>
<p><strong>NWS/PRH 737 Bishop Street, Suite 2200</strong></p>
<p><strong>Honolulu, Hawaii 96813</strong></p>
<p><strong>(808)532-6414</strong></p>
<p><strong>FAX (808)532-5569</strong></p>
<p><a
href="mailto:Joel.cline@noaa.gov"><strong>Joel.cline@noaa.gov</strong></a></p></td>
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<td colspan="11"><p><strong>8. Technical Points of Contact (Agency or
office, Name, Phone, Fax &amp; email):</strong></p>
<p><strong>NWS/PRH 737 Bishop Street, Suite 2200</strong></p>
<p><strong>Honolulu, Hawaii 96813</strong></p>
<p><strong>(808)532-6414</strong></p>
<p><strong>FAX (808)532-5569</strong></p>
<p><a
href="mailto:Joel.cline@noaa.gov"><strong>Joel.cline@noaa.gov</strong></a></p></td>
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<td colspan="11"><strong>9. General Description of Need: The Regional
and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch of NESDIS ORA has developed a tropical
cyclone formation probability product for the tropical Atlantic and
eastern Pacific. The product combines GOES imagery and parameters from
the NCEP analyses to estimate the probability of tropical cyclone
genesis in Atlantic and eastern Pacific ocean, which is the forecast
area of responsibility of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. This
product is in the final stages of transition to OSDPD operations.
Pacific Regional Headquarters requests that the product be extended to
include the Western and Central Pacific and South Pacific to cover the
forecast points and weather service offices located in Hawaii, American
Samoa, Guam and the rest of the CNMI, the Marshall Islands – Majuro,
Pohnpei, Kosrae, Chuuk and Yap of the FSM, and the Republic of
Palau.</strong></td>
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<td colspan="11"><p><strong>10. Product specifications /
needs:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Environmental parameter: Tropical cyclone formation
probability</strong></p>
<p><strong>Satellite sources (e.g., satellite, sensor, etc.): full disk
water vapor imagery from</strong></p>
<p><strong>GOES-east, GOES-west, MT-SAT and Meteosat 5 at roughly 3 hour
intervals</strong></p>
<p><strong>Geographical coverage</strong> (e.g., orbital, global,
regional): Western Pacific to cover the Republic of Palau, Yap, Chuuk,
and Pohnpei (Kosrae) of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic
of the Marshall Islands including Majuro. The South Pacific to include
the area around American Samoa and the central Pacific area including
the Hawaiian Islands.</p>
<p><strong>Vertical range:</strong> N/A</p>
<p><strong>Vertical resolution:</strong> N/A</p>
<p><strong>Horizontal resolution:</strong> Formation Probabilities over
5 by 5 degree lat/lon areas</p>
<p><strong>Mapping accuracy:</strong> 0.5 degree lat/lon</p>
<p><strong>Measurement range</strong>: 0 to 100%</p>
<p><strong>Measurement accuracy:</strong> More accurate than pure
climatological probabilities</p>
<p><strong>Measurement precision: N/A</strong></p>
<p><strong>Frequency (</strong>e.g, Daily, weekly, orbital, delivery
times, granularity): Four times per day</p>
<p><strong>Data Latency:</strong> 3 hours or less</p>
<p><strong>Refresh:</strong> Every 6 hours</p>
<p><strong>Timeliness</strong> (e.g., how soon after observation is
product needed?): 3 hours</p>
<p><strong>Projection view:</strong> Evenly spaced lat/lon grid over the
global tropical cyclone formation regions. The current product covers
the area from 0 to 45<sup>o</sup> N, 10 to 140<sup>o</sup>W. The new
product would need to cover the area from 45<sup>o</sup>N to
45<sup>o</sup>S, 140<sup>o</sup>W to 30<sup>o</sup>E.</p>
<p><strong>Format (</strong>eg., BUFR, GRIB, FF, GIF, GeoTIF,
McIDAS/HDF, SARAD, SATEM, AWIPS’ NetCDF)<strong>:</strong></p>
<p>Web based product in gif or jpeg format</p>
<p><strong>Grid spacing:</strong> 5.0 degrees</p>
<p><strong>Units:</strong> Percent</p>
<p><strong>Compression</strong> (e.g., JPEG, MPEG, RICE, GZIP, ZIP,
GIP): jpeg if needed.</p>
<p><strong>Long term stability:</strong> Product should remain
consistent during each hurricane season</p>
<p><strong>Archive requirements:</strong> Local at OSDPD for 1 year</p>
<p><strong>Others:</strong></p></td>
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<td colspan="11"><strong>11. Benefits: The main benefit of the new
product is for the generation of the TPC Tropical Weather Outlook (TWO)
and a graphical depiction of potential tropical cyclone formation areas,
and for providing a general diagnosis of the tropical atmosphere,
relative to climatology.</strong></td>
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<td colspan="2"><strong>Value Range (check):</strong></td>
<td></td>
<td colspan="3">Less than $100K</td>
<td colspan="2"></td>
<td>$100K to $1 Million <strong>X</strong></td>
<td></td>
<td>Greater than $1 Million</td>
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<td colspan="11"><p><strong>12. Shortcomings of Existing
Capabilities:</strong></p>
<p><strong>There is no operational tool for tropical cyclone genesis in
effect for this part of the Pacific Ocean.</strong></p></td>
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<td colspan="11"><p><strong>13.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Need Date: ASAP</strong></p>
<p><strong>User Program Implementation Details: Product developed by
NESIDS/ORA at CIRA. Need to bring into operations for the part of the
Pacific not already covered.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Is the user willing to cost share on developing this
capability? No.</strong></p></td>
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<td colspan="11"><strong>14. Termination Date:</strong></td>
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<td colspan="2" rowspan="4"><strong>15. User Priority:</strong></td>
<td colspan="2"><strong>Check Appropriate Box Below</strong></td>
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<td colspan="2"></td>
<td colspan="7"><strong>Mission Critical:</strong> Cannot meet
operational mission objectives without this requirement</td>
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<td colspan="2">x</td>
<td colspan="7"><strong>Mission Optimal:</strong> Requirement not
critical but would provide significant improvement to operational
capability</td>
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<td colspan="2"></td>
<td colspan="7"><strong>Mission Enhancing:</strong> Requirement needed
to enhance state of knowledge or assess potential for operational
capability</td>
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<td colspan="11"><p><strong>16. For NOAA Users only</strong></p>
<p><strong>Please place an "X" in the appropriate block identifying
which NOAA mission goal(s) and program(s) this request supports (goal is
the 1<sup>st</sup> item and programs found under that goal are the
second column)</strong></p></td>
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<td colspan="5"><strong>NOAA Mission Goals</strong></td>
<td colspan="6"><strong>NOAA Programs</strong></td>
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<td colspan="4"><strong>Climate Observations &amp;
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<td colspan="2"><strong>x</strong></td>
<td colspan="4"><strong>Local Forecast &amp; Warnings</strong></td>
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<td colspan="4"><strong>Space Weather</strong></td>
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<td colspan="4"><strong>Hydrology-Rivers, Lakes &amp;
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<td colspan="4"><strong>Environmental Modeling</strong></td>
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<td colspan="4"><strong>Coasts, Estuaries &amp; Oceans</strong></td>
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<td colspan="4"><strong>Weather Water Science, Technology, &amp;
Infusion Program</strong></td>
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<td colspan="4"><strong>Marine Transportation Systems</strong></td>
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<td colspan="4"><strong>Aviation Weather</strong></td>
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<td colspan="4"><strong>Geodesy</strong></td>
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<td colspan="2"><strong>x</strong></td>
<td colspan="4"><strong>Surface Weather</strong></td>
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<td colspan="2"><strong>x</strong></td>
<td colspan="4"><strong>NOAA Emergency Response</strong></td>
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<td colspan="4"><strong>Commercial &amp; Remote Sensing
Licensing</strong></td>
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<td colspan="4"><strong>Satellite Sub-goal</strong></td>
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<td colspan="4"><strong>Geostationary Satellite
Acquisition</strong></td>
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<td colspan="4"><strong>Polar Satellite Acquisition</strong></td>
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<td colspan="4"><strong>Fleet Replacement</strong></td>
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<td colspan="4"><strong>Marine Operations &amp;
Maintenance</strong></td>
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<td colspan="4"><strong>Leadership Sub-goal</strong></td>
<td colspan="6"></td>
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<td colspan="2"></td>
<td colspan="4"><strong>Homeland Security</strong></td>
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<td colspan="4"><strong>Line Office Headquarters</strong></td>
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<td colspan="4"><strong>NOAA Headquarters</strong></td>
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<td colspan="4"><strong>Mission Support Sub-goal</strong></td>
<td colspan="6"></td>
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<td colspan="4"><strong>Information Technology Services</strong></td>
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<td colspan="4"><strong>Administrative Services</strong></td>
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<td colspan="4"><strong>Financial Services</strong></td>
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<td colspan="4"><strong>Workforce Management</strong></td>
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<td colspan="4"><strong>Acquisition &amp; Grants</strong></td>
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<td colspan="4"><strong>Facilities</strong></td>
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<td colspan="11"><strong>17. Suggested Solutions
(Optional):</strong></td>
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<td colspan="11"><strong>18. Concept Of Operations (Optional):</strong>
The processing of the new product would parallel that of the current
project for the expanded domain, and the results could be displayed the
same web page as the current project, once that becomes operational at
OSDPD. The expanded version of the product will need to make use of data
from additional geostationary satellites because the current product
only utilizes GOES-east.</td>
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<td colspan="11"><strong>19. Additional Remarks (Optional): Product
developed by NESIDS/ORA at CIRA. Need to bring into operations for the
part of the Pacific not already covered.</strong></td>
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<td colspan="11"><p><strong>20. Approval Authority (Agency or office,
Name, Phone, Fax &amp; email) <em>(mandatory entry)</em>:</strong></p>
<p>Jeffrey LaDouce</p>
<p>Regional Director - Pacific Region Headquarters</p>
<p>National Weather Service</p>
<p>737 Bishop Street, Suite 2200</p>
<p>Honolulu, Hawaii 96813</p>
<p>(808)532-6416</p></td>
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<td colspan="11"><p><strong>21.</strong></p>
<p>National Weather Service user requests must be sent <a
href="mailto:James.Heil@noaa.gov">James.Heil@noaa.gov</a> and he will
forward them to NESDIS.</p>
<p>All other requests should be sent by Email, fax, or mail to:</p>
<p>Email: <a
href="mailto:Selina.Nauman@noaa.gov">Selina.Nauman@noaa.gov</a></p>
<p>Phone: 301-763-8081 ext 134</p>
<p>Fax: 301-763-8131</p>
<p>Mail:</p>
<p>NESDIS/OSDPD/Satellite Services Division (Attn: Selina Nauman)<br />
ESP/23<br />
5200 Auth Road, Building 607<br />
Camp Springs, MD. 20747</p></td>
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<td colspan="11"><strong>Triage Board Member Initial Technical
Assessment</strong></td>
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<td colspan="11"><p><strong>22.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Current capabilities:</strong></p>
<p><u>OSDPD</u>: There is no current capability in the NESDIS Satellite
Services Division to generate a satellite derived, objective estimate of
24 hour tropical cyclone formation probability in the Atlantic and East
Pacific basins, in support of the NWS National Hurricane Center
requirement.</p>
<p><u>ORA</u>: A product similar to what was requested by NWS Pacific
region already exists for the Atlantic and east Pacific. This version of
the product is in the final stages of operational transition to OSDPD
and should be ready by the end of FY05. However, the product does not
extend west of 140<sup>o</sup>W because it only utilizes GOES-east.</p>
<p><u>OSD:</u> Not Provided</p>
<p><strong>Near term improvement plans related to this capability
request:</strong></p>
<p><u>ORA</u>: In principle the product could be extended to cover the
area of responsibility of the NWS Pacific region by developing new
versions that utilize GOES-west, MTSAT and Meteosat data. However, new
statistical coefficients and databases would need to be developed.</p>
<p><u>OSDPD</u>: An enhanced version of an automated tropical genesis
parameter system</p>
<p>which encompasses all of NHC/TPC's areas of responsibility was
developed by the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere
(CIRA) and which incorporates modifications based on forecaster feedback
collected during the last storm season is available for implementation
and evaluation for this 2005 hurricane season would be to evaluate the
genesis parameter. Output from CIRA would be provided automatically to
TPC and the SAB web site for SAB evaluation.</p>
<p><u>OSD</u>: Not Provided</p>
<p><strong>Technical solution options to meet user request:</strong></p>
<p><u>ORA</u> :The global version of the formation parameter can be
developed by building a database of GOES-west, MTSAT (GMS or GOES-9 for
previous years), and Meteostat water vapor imagery. The global NCEP
analyses required for the development are already available. The
climatological formation database for the tropical cyclone basins
outside of the Atlantic/East Pacific would also need to be assembled.
These data would be used to determine the discriminate analysis
coefficients, and then the current code at OSDPD could be generalized.
The capability for this work exists within the ORA RAMMB</p>
<p><u>OSDPD</u>: The enhanced system including appropriate interfaces to
ancillary data sets will be installed on the SSD SATEPS computer system,
and the results routinely made available to TPC and SAB tropical
analysts on the SSD Web site in image format. All the necessary software
components are currently in place to proceed with the installation.</p>
<p><u>OSD</u>: Not Provided</p>
<p><strong>Recommended course of action:</strong></p>
<p><u>ORA</u>: Approve. A “new start” GOES PSDI project should be funded
to support the development of the global version of the tropical cyclone
formation product. This would probably be a two-year effort.</p>
<p><u>OSDPD</u>: FY05 PSDI funds for this project have been approved and
TPC would like to have this system running in time for the 2005 storm
season. SPSRB approval should be expedited and the installation
completed as soon as possible.</p>
<p><u>OSD</u>: Not Provided</p></td>
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<td colspan="11"><strong>NESDIS TRIAGE BOARD INPUT</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td colspan="11"><p><strong>23.</strong> The Triage Board supports this
user requests and asks that Mark DeMaria provide a product development
brief at the June SPSRB meeting. Further, the Triage members request
that cost options are included for each satellite and that the coverage
area for each satellite in relation to the AOR for Pacific Regional
Headquarters is provided as part of the briefing. As part of the new
SPSRB process Mark is asked to work with an Integrated Product Team
(IPT) whose members have been identified by the Triage Board. The IPT
team members are as follows:</p>
<p>George Serafino and Mike Turk (OSDPD)</p>
<p>Gary Ellrod and Jamie Daniels (ORA)</p>
<p>Don Gray (OSD)</p>
<p>The ICAPOP co-chairs are also be kept informed of progress on this
request. Finally, 2 weeks prior to SPSRB review your briefing will be
reviewed by the appropriate OSDPD and ORA Division chief</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td colspan="11"><strong>NESDIS SPSRB INPUT</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td colspan="11"><p><strong>Proposal for Product Development Decision
Brief presented by Mark DeMaria at the June SPSRB</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><p>GOES-West and MTSAT products could be broken out into two product
deliverables (i.e., GOES-West TCF and MTSAT TCF). Each product would
have different product milestones.</p></li>
<li><p>CIRA could begin work ahead of the funding if funding is
identified</p></li>
<li><p>Meteosat-5 could be another separate product development effort
with its milestones., CIRA does not have much of an archive of
Meteosat-5 data. Archived data can be obtained from Australia or the
EUMETSAT archive system, probably with a fee.</p></li>
<li><p>We should get JTWC buy in on the MTSAT and Metosat product
development efforts because they have operational responsibility for the
West Pacific (including some NWS areas) and the Indian Ocean (including
DoD areas of responsibility)</p></li>
<li><p>We could ask DoD for funding because of JTWC interest</p></li>
<li><p>NWS has already said no funding is available for this project,
but we should go back and confirm this</p></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>SPSRB Decision: option 2 (option 3 if DoD
agrees)</strong></p></td>
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<td colspan="11"><strong>NESDIS Resource Updates</strong></td>
</tr>
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<td colspan="11"><p><strong>25.</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><p><strong>SPSRB co-chairs will send a memo to the Western Region
Director identify that GOES West, MTSAT and Metosat Tropical Cyclone
Formation product development is possible. Ask if they concur that these
approaches will address their need and request if a cost sharing is
possible. ORA (Mark DeMaris) should pursue funding for the GOES-West and
MTSAT product development through Geo-PSDI funding. The SPSRB co-chairs
will also send a memo to JTCW and see if they are interest in cost
sharing for MTSAT and/or Metosat product development
efforts.</strong></p></li>
</ul></td>
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