# Presentation: 346399

## NDFD Status and Plans

- Lynn Maximuk
- MIC WFO Pleasant Hill, MO
- NDFD IWT Team Member

## NDFD IWTTucson Meeting 1/27-30/2003

- Findings and Recommendations
- Highlights

## NRC Feb 2003 Report

- Recommendation 5 under Enhancing the Contributions of the Three Sectors
- The NWS should make its data and products available in Internet-accessible digital form. Information held in digital databases should be based on widely recognized standards, formats, and metadata descriptions to ensure that the data from different observing platforms, databases, and models can be integrated and used by all interested parties in the weather and climate enterprise.

## External Grid Dissemination

- Phase national grid dissemination
- Feb 10, 2003 – Max/Min Temps
- Apr 2, 2003 – Wx, Temp, Dew Pt,
- June 15, 2003 – Sky, POP, QPF, Snow, Wave Ht, Sfc Wind
- Initial customer focus will be on mechanics of getting and using grids, not accuracy or consistency

## Collaboration

- What tools are needed
- ISC Grids
- Chat capability – national deployment mid Feb
- Whiteboard/drawing capability – after IOC
- Voice communication – meet-me calls - Now
- New Day 7 added to database by 1745Z
- Meteorological consistency across boundaries versus personality
- Working as a team – inter-office science sharing including NCEP centers – HPC 12Z discussion with guidance by 16Z.

## Collaboration

- 12Planet Chosen as national baseline collaboration tool
- Inside AWIPS firewall
- Large national chat room architecture
- IOC software available now – start use after minimal guidance provided
- SPC will join HPC in participation around Mar 1

## Weather Grids

- Weather grid will be populated for all non-zero PoPs
- Associated QPF/snow issues
- Processes
- Evaluate implementation at NDFD Clusters
- Team developing initial procedure now

## Legacy Product Preparation in the Future

- Legacy type products should be prepared by formatters from NDFD rather than local database for economy and consistency
- Evaluate relevance of legacy products and eliminate those that are no longer relevant

## Daily Forecast Critique

- NDFD IWT strongly endorses higher emphasis on development of this important feedback tool
- Used in conjunction with gridded verification to improve accuracy

## Methodology Consistency

- Methodology used to prepare grids has major impact on consistency/collaboration
- OS sponsored workshops
- WR already done
- Combined CR/SR due 3/4-6
- Share best practices and provide leadership for consistency
- Smart tools to derive all but basic fields

## Internal/External NDFD/IFPS Outreach

- Outreach has been weak and needs to be improved immediately
- Internal Outreach
- OS outreach plan updated and reinvigorated
- Reinforcement of vision from multiple levels in agency
- Feedback to forecasters

## Internal/External NDFD/IFPS Outreach

- External Outreach
- Educate potential customers
- Market data product
- WCMs lead effort
- Develop resources for effort
- Pro actively improve feedback mechanism
- AMS workshop and display

## NWSI 10-506 Overview

- Provides “how-to” instructions
- Timeliness
- Collaboration
- Technology
- Thresholds
- Provides descriptions (via Product Description Documents) of non-text, digitally-based products
- Graphics
- Interactive products

## Directive 506 Summary

- NWSI 10-506 is a critical directive formally launching the NWS into the digital era
- Strategy:  Take recommendations from the NDFD IWT as a first draft, then
- Dialogue, debate, achieve consensus

## Schedule

- Week of February 3rd:  Team Kickoff Teleconference
- February 28th – First Draft
- March 14th – Regional/OD/NCEP Concurrence
- March 14th to 28th – NWSEO & GC Review
- March 31 – Signed Directive

## Table of Contents

- Introduction
- Mission Connection
- NDFD
- Definition
- Preparation
- Element Definition Table
- Consistency
- Timeliness

## Table of Contents (cont.)

- Digital Forecast Products Specification
- Base Digital Forecast Data
- Local Digital Forecast Products
- Regional Digital Forecast Products
- National Digital Forecast Products
- Intersite Coordination/Collaboration
- Thresholds
- Technology
- Responsibilities

## NWSI 10-506 Team

- Doug Young, OS22 – Team Leader
- Mike Coyne, SR CWWD
- Don Miller, ER MSD
- Jeff Manion, CR SSD
- Carl Gorski, WR MSD
- Ken Waters, PR
- Aimee Devaris, AR
- Kevin McCarthy, NCEP
- ?, OST

## Some Things To Look At

- Temporal workload distribution
- Division of forecast responsibility
- Collaboration versus coordination
- How can WFOs get more meteorological information to our customers now!
- Product quality feedback to staff

## NDFD Grids

- Multiple owners – Time and Space
- WFOs
- National Centers HPC/SPC/CPC/AWC/NHC etc.
- NWS product – not local office product
- Offices produce a piece of the product
- Meteorological consistency a must
- One stop shopping

## Event Driven Updates

- Scheduled Issuances of legacy prods?
- No Updates – “always current” NWS products you can count on
- What’s an event?
- New model guidance that changes thinking
- Dropping first period – adding new day 7
- Local customer needs
- Observed weather doesn’t match forecast