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<td colspan="13"><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="13"><strong>NESDIS INPUT</strong></td>
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<td><strong>1. Tracking Number: 411-3</strong></td>
<td colspan="4"><strong>Amendments Date(s):</strong></td>
<td colspan="8"><strong>2. Requirement Title:</strong> GOES Volcanic Ash
Product</td>
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<td colspan="13"><strong>USER INPUT</strong></td>
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<td colspan="3"><strong>Name</strong></td>
<td colspan="4"><strong>Agency &amp; Mailing Address</strong></td>
<td><strong>Phone And Fax</strong></td>
<td colspan="3"><strong>E-mail</strong></td>
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<td colspan="2"><strong>3. Approval Authority</strong></td>
<td colspan="3">Kevin Johnston</td>
<td colspan="4">NWS, SSMC2, Room 13314, 1325 East-West Hwy. Silver
Spring, MD 20910</td>
<td><p>P: 301-713-1726 x 149</p>
<p>F: 301-713-1520</p></td>
<td colspan="3">Kevin.L.Johnston@noaa.gov</td>
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<td colspan="2"><strong>4. User Project Leader</strong></td>
<td colspan="3">Michael Graf</td>
<td colspan="4">NWS, SSMC2, Room 13324, 1325 East-West Hwy. Silver
Spring, MD 20910</td>
<td><p>P: 301-713-1726 x 117</p>
<p>F: 301-713-1520</p></td>
<td colspan="3"><a
href="mailto:Michael.graf@noaa.gov">Michael.graf@noaa.gov</a></td>
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<td colspan="2" rowspan="3"><strong>5. Operational Points of
Contact</strong></td>
<td colspan="3"><strong>Name</strong></td>
<td colspan="4"><strong>Agency &amp; Mailing Address</strong></td>
<td><strong>Phone And Fax</strong></td>
<td colspan="3"><strong>E-mail</strong></td>
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<td colspan="3">James Heil</td>
<td colspan="4">NWS, SSMC2, Room 4375, 1325 East-West Hwy., Silver
Spring, MD 20910</td>
<td><p>P: 301-713-1792 x 140</p>
<p>F: 301-713-2099</p></td>
<td colspan="3"><a
href="mailto:James.heil@noaa.gov">James.heil@noaa.gov</a></td>
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<td colspan="3">George Stephens</td>
<td colspan="4">NESDIS, WWB, Room 510, 5200 Auth Rd., Camp Springs, MD
20746</td>
<td><p>P: 301-763-8142</p>
<p>F:</p></td>
<td colspan="3"><a
href="mailto:George.stephens@noaa.gov">George.stephens@noaa.gov</a></td>
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<td colspan="2" rowspan="2"><strong>6. Technical Points of
Contact</strong></td>
<td colspan="3"><strong>Name</strong></td>
<td colspan="4"><strong>Agency &amp; Mailing Address</strong></td>
<td><strong>Phone And Fax</strong></td>
<td colspan="3"><strong>E-mail</strong></td>
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<td colspan="3">Dave Miller</td>
<td colspan="4">NWS, SSMC2, Room 12110, 1325 East-West Hwy., Silver
Spring, MD 20910</td>
<td><p>P: 301-713-1570 x 146</p>
<p>F: 301-713-0003</p></td>
<td colspan="3">David.T.Miller@noaa.gov</td>
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<td colspan="2"><strong>7. Requirement Title:</strong></td>
<td colspan="11">GOES Volcanic Ash Product</td>
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<td colspan="2"><strong>8. General Description of Need:</strong></td>
<td colspan="11">A multi-spectral GOES image product is needed for the
NWS AWIPS that will provide optimum depiction of airborne volcanic ash
to complement text and graphic advisories during eruption events.</td>
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<td colspan="2" rowspan="2"><p><strong>9. Benefits:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Value Range (check):</strong></p></td>
<td colspan="11">The new product will increase forecasters’ awareness of
the area coverage of airborne ash clouds resulting from major volcanic
eruptions in order to provide necessary advisories to the general public
and aviation users.</td>
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<td colspan="4">Less than $100K</td>
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<td colspan="2">$100K to $1 Million</td>
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<td colspan="2">Greater than $1 Million</td>
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<td colspan="2"><strong>10. Shortcomings of Existing
Capabilities:</strong></td>
<td colspan="10">One of the Infrared bands on GOES (12 micrometer
wavelength) has been eliminated from GOES-East, and will soon disappear
on GOES-West. The loss requires a new multi-spectral image product for
AWIPS to allow forecasters to detect the ash clouds as soon as possible
following an eruption.</td>
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<td colspan="2"><strong>11. Need Date:</strong></td>
<td colspan="10">2005-06</td>
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<td colspan="2"><strong>12. Termination Date:</strong></td>
<td colspan="10">Indefinite</td>
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<td colspan="2" rowspan="4"><strong>13. User Priority:</strong></td>
<td colspan="4"><strong>Check Appropriate Box Below</strong></td>
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<td colspan="6"><strong>Mission Critical:</strong> Cannot meet
operational mission objectives without this requirement</td>
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<td colspan="6"><strong>Mission Optimal:</strong> Requirement not
critical but would provide significant improvement to operational
capability</td>
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<td colspan="6"><strong>Mission Enhancing:</strong> Requirement needed
to enhance state of knowledge or assess potential for operational
capability</td>
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<td colspan="2" rowspan="6"><strong>14. NOAA Users only</strong></td>
<td colspan="10"><strong>What NOAA Mission Goal does this request
support (check all that's appropriate)?</strong></td>
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<td colspan="8"><strong>Ecosystems</strong></td>
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<td colspan="2"></td>
<td colspan="8"><strong>Climate</strong></td>
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<td colspan="8"><strong>Weather and Water</strong></td>
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<td colspan="8"><strong>Commerce &amp; Transportation</strong></td>
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<td colspan="8"><strong>Goal-wide (please specify which
program):</strong></td>
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<td colspan="2"><strong>15. Suggested Solutions
(Optional):</strong></td>
<td colspan="10">N/A</td>
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<td colspan="2"><strong>16. Concept Of Operations
(Optional):</strong></td>
<td colspan="10">NWS forecasters would consult this image product along
with Volcanic Ash Advisories or graphics and trajectory model forecasts
to provide the best possible guidance to en route aircraft or aviation
dispatchers.</td>
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<td colspan="2"><strong>17. Additional Remarks (Optional):</strong></td>
<td colspan="10">Product would be generated for all applicable AWIPS
sectors.</td>
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<td colspan="2"><strong>18. Email, Mail or Fax Request to:</strong></td>
<td colspan="10"><p>email: Eileen.Maturi@noaa.gov</p>
<p>Fax: Eileen Maturi at 301-763-8572</p>
<p>Mail: Eileen Maturi</p>
<p>NOAA Science Center, Room 601</p>
<p>5200 Auth Road</p>
<p>Camp Springs, Maryland 20746</p></td>
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<td colspan="12"><strong>Triage Board Member Initial Technical
Assessment</strong></td>
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<td colspan="12"><p><strong>19.</strong></p>
<p>Triage Board member: Tom Schott, Polar Product Manager</p>
<p>Current capabilities:</p>
<p>Volcanic ash advisories are generated from the GOES Imager to help
warn aircraft of the major hazards associated with volcanic ash. GOES
Imager data for North, Central, and South America are used to prepare
Volcanic Ash Advisory Statements. These are updated every six hours, or
as required, to include information as to the vertical extent, aerial
extent, onset, and duration of explosive eruptions. Volcanic ash
products are generated hourly on a 1-km scale using GOES visible imagery
and on a 4-km scale using GOES infrared imagery.</p>
<p>Two experimental Three-channel Volcanic Ash Products (TVAP) combine
data from the shortwave (3.9 micron) IR channel, and two longwave window
IR channels (10.7 and either 12.0 or 13.3 microns). Temperature
differences in the 10.7 micron and the 12.0 micron channels on GOES-10
can help identify volcanic ash. The GOES-12 combination of 10.7 and 13.3
microns is not as effective, but can help distinguish ash from cirrus. A
3.9 and 10.7 micron image difference is also produced.</p>
<p>Near term improvement plans related to this capability request:
unknown</p>
<p>Technical solution options to meet user request:</p>
<p>Recommended course of action: It appears that most of the products
related to this request are in devel/exp phase. So ORAD should take the
lead to put together a product devel decision brief for the SPSRB. Be
sure to involve John Paquette in the solution analysis because of his
experience with AWIPS projects.</p>
<p>Triage Board member: SSD</p>
<p>Current capabilities: A GOES volcanic ash product exists on AWIPS,
but has been degraded by the elimination of an infrared spectral band on
present and near future GOES satellites.</p>
<p>Near term improvement plans related to this capability request:
Development is proceeding in ORA, and necessary hardware has been
procured and is ready for operational product implementation in SSD.
This new multispectral detection capability will provide optimum
depiction of airborne volcanic ash to complement text and graphic
advisories during eruption events.</p>
<p>Triage Board member: Eric Bayler</p>
<p>Current capabilities:</p>
<p>Near term improvement plans related to this capability request:</p>
<p>Technical solution options to meet user request:</p>
<p>Recommended course of action:</p>
<p>INSUFFICIENT KNOWLEDGE TO COMMENT</p>
<p>Technical solution options to meet user request: Development of new
product, structurally similar to existing product.</p>
<p>Recommended course of action: Complete product development in ORA,
proceed with operational implementation in SSD.</p></td>
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<td colspan="12"><strong>NESDIS TRIAGE BOARD INPUT</strong></td>
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<td colspan="12"><p><strong>20. Reviewed at the February 2005 Triage
Board meeting.</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><p>This product is already developed and being run in ORA (Dave).
There is already</p></li>
</ul>
<p>a “low cloud” product on AWIPS, being funded by FAA/NWS. (Jim)</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Tom would like to see a project briefing even though funds are
from an outside</p></li>
</ul>
<p>source. This will allow ORA and OSDPD to coordinate efforts, and lay
out the</p>
<p>milestones for this project.</p>
<p><strong>Action: Tom will put together a template for this briefing,
show it to Triage board, and give to Gary Ellrod.</strong> (This will
add a third briefing template into the new process – will be addressed
at the SPIWG)</p></td>
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<td colspan="12">NESDIS SPSRB INPUT</td>
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<td colspan="12"><p><strong>21. April SPSRB: Gary Ellrod gave a project
plan briefing using the template developed by Tom Schott</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><p>Action for Gary to follow up with NWS/Michael Graf to make sure
this product is on the AWIPS OB8 requirements list</p></li>
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<td colspan="12"><p><strong>22.</strong></p>
<p><strong>E-mail from Hank Drahos 1/6/2005:</strong></p>
<p><strong>“ I spoke to Gary (Ellrod). He is funded to the tune of about
$39K from NWS for the Ash Products and a similar amount was for and
upgrade to the low cloud/fog products, but that was shared between
George Stevens and Gary. This is clearly why NWS now wants these
products put into operations and I believe that process is moving. Gary
will supply the remarks he made previously (yes, SMCD did respond to
this action), in case they are lost, as soon as possible. I hope this
helps.</strong></p></td>
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