Government Advancements To Improve Technology

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Government Advancements To Improve Technology
One NOAA

• Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., U.S.
  Navy (Ret.)
• Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans
  Atmosphere NOAA Administrator
• January 15, 2007
• 23rd Conference on IIPS
• American Meteorological Society

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Outline

• One NOAA
• NOAAs role in advancing Atmospheric and Oceanic
  Research
• Current achievements in weather, water and
  climate services
• Future Goals

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One NOAAGEOSSGlobal Earth Observation System of
Systems

• A distributed system of systems
• Improves coordination of strategies and
  observation systems
• Links all platforms in situ, aircraft, and
  satellite networks
• Identifies gaps in our global capacity
• Facilitates exchange of data and information
• Improves decision-makers abilities to address
  pressing policy issues

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One NOAASatellite Launches
GOES N Prep Launch

• GOES-N
• Successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Air
  Force Station
• MetOp-A
• Will help will provide global data for improving
  forecasts of severe weather, disaster mitigation

MetOp-A Prep Launch
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One NOAATsunami Warning System Improved

• Enables two way communication
• Expanding network to 39 DART II buoy stations
• Installed DART buoy in the Indian Ocean
• 8 New National Water Level Observation Network
  (NWLON) stations

tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/
DART II Buoy
Thailand DART II Deployment
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One NOAATsunami

• H.R. 1674Tsunami Warning and Education Act
• Endorses the NOAA-led National Tsunami Hazard
  Mitigation Program
• Legislation calls on NOAA to develop requirements
  for the equipment used to forecast tsunamis,
  including provisions for a multi-purpose
  detection platform
• The bill formally authorizes an OAR tsunami
  research program
• Requires NOAA to notify Congress of any tsunami
  detection equipment failures

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One NOAAC-SIDE

• One-Stop For Gulf Coast Regional Severe Weather
  Planning and Preparation
• Comprehensive Gulf of Mexico coastal region
  information center
• Near real time data source
• Complete picture of the environment

ecowatch.ncddc.noaa.gov/c-side
Regional Full Picture Interactive Radar Loops
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One NOAAWorld Ocean Database

• Largest collection of ocean profile data
• All data is online
• Accessible to the public
• Database includes an additional 900,000
  temperature profiles

www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/WOD05/pr_wod05.html
Bathythermograph (DBT) profiles (WOD05)
Temperature (CTD) profiles (WOD05)
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One NOAAUnmanned Aircraft System (UAS)
UAS-Silver Fox

• Has the potential to conduct long endurance
  flights for weather data collecting
• Validate satellite measurements
• Monitor atmospheric composition and climate
• Gather critical data for input into models

UAS-Altair
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One NOAAClimate
Available from each NWS Weather Forecast Office
http//www.weather.gov/climate
NOWData
Local 3-Month Temperature Outlook (L3MTO)
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One NOAAClimate
Available from each NWS Weather Forecast Office
http//www.weather.gov/climate
National 3-Month Temperature Outlook
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One NOAANational Integrated Drought Information
System Office
NIDIS at ESRL

• Detect future risks of drought
• Integrating existing independent monitoring
• Coordination across Federal Agencies

www.esrl.noaa.gov
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One NOAAAir Quality Experimental Modeling
Expanded Nationwide

• NOAA and EPA partnership
• Improve Air Quality Alerts
• Forecasts cover the lower 48 states at 12 km grid
  resolution
• Hour-by-hour predicted concentrations of ozone

AQI AQI Category 8-Hr Concentration 1-Hr Concentration
0-50 Good 0-64
51-100 Moderate 65-84
101-150 Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups 85-104 125-164
151-200 Unhealthy 105-124 165-204
201-300 Very Unhealthy 125-374 205-404
301-400 Hazardous gt374 405-504
401-500 Hazardous 505-604
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One NOAANOAA Weather Radio

• Multi-Agency collaboration including
• Department of Education
• Department of Homeland Security
• Department of Commerce/ NOAA
• Ensures at least 1 NOAA Weather Radio will be
  placed in each public school in America (97,000
  total)

public-alert-radio.nws.noaa.gov
NOAA Weather Radio Coverage
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One NOAANOAAs Commitment to Open Communication
of Science

• Peer reviewed science
• Respect, and seek to understand, each others
  work
• Media policy
• Hurricane Information Sheet

hurricanes.noaa.gov
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Advancing OneNOAA Where We Are, The Way Forward
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One NOAAServices EvolutionEvolving To Best
Service America
FROM TO
Producers of Our Forecasts Customers of Our Expertise
Phenomenon-Based Forecasts Impact-Based Forecasts
Product-Based Services Decision Support Services
Coordination Collaborative Weather Enterprise
Weather-centric Earth System Science
Deterministic (best forecast) Probabilistic (uncertainty range)

• Utilize Resources
• Be Proactive
• Assume a more integrated role

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Conclusion

• Future NOAA
• Communicate Needs
• Present new and innovative ideas