1. Luis Cano Director, Office of Dissemination
National Weather Service Office of Dissemination Committee for Operational Processing Centers (COPC)
Luis Cano
Director, Office of Dissemination
May 28, 2015

2. Agenda
NOAA Integrated Dissemination Program (IDP) Overview (part of the NWS Dissemination Portfolio)
IDP Status
Subset of Projects Hosted/Sponsored by IDP

3. Integrated Dissemination Program (IDP) Overview
Diagram illustrates IDP capabilities to deliver an integrated enterprise-wide dissemination service
Satellite Broadcast Network (SBN)
GOES-R / Himawari-8 Re-broadcast Antenna System
LAN
NWSTG Steady State
IDP Private Cloud
NWS and Customers
Local Admin
& Monitor
NWS
Network
NOAA’s Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Product Distribution and Access System
NWS Ground Readiness Project (GRP)
NextGen IT Web Services
Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System II
NOAA
Integrated Dissemination Program

4. IT Processes / Security What does this mean for COPC?
Status:
NWS Telecommunications Operations Center (TOC) Merge with NCEP Central Operations (NCO)
On April 1, 2015, NCO and the TOC operations and staff merged as part of NWS Headquarters Reorganization
NCO Director became system owner of OPSnet and NWSTG systems
All NWS network services, support, and maintenance centralized with reorganization
24x7 monitoring
WCOSS, IDP, NCEP WAN
24x7 monitoring OPSnet, NIDS, ASOS, NEXRAD
NCO College Park
NCO Silver Spring
Benefits of Merger
IT Processes / Security
Centralization of all Operations organizational and administrative practices in progress
Merge Configuration Management processes
Centralize WMO GISC services
What does this mean for COPC?
The realignment of our Organizations and IT infrastructure will better serve the needs of our partners

5. Status: NWS Telecommunications Gateway (NWSTG) Migration to NOAA IDP Private Cloud
Migrating NWSTG functions and data services to NOAA’s IDP private cloud in College Park, MD and Boulder, CO by FY2017
June 2015: NIDS (weather.gov) operational on IDP College Park system
July 2015: ASOS Operations and Monitoring Center (AOMC) and National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (NLETS) scheduled to be moved into IDP production
August 2015: All FTP and FNMOC data services transitioned under the IDP data center in College Park, MD
Estimated Completion – December 2016
Benefits of NWSTG Migration
IT Processes / Security / Budgetary / Operational Stability
All applications and networks will be managed by a single entity => improved customer service
System and application support and monitoring for NCO CP and SS streamlines and consolidated
Reliable and timely dissemination of all critical weather warnings and products
Fully deployed backup (Boulder) and geographically diverse NWSTG infrastructure
Ability to support increased volume of model, radar, and observational data
All applications ported will have budgetary support required to sustain operations

6. Status: IDP Private Cloud in Boulder, CO
Design and phase one construction is complete
Final build out in Boulder planned for FY 2016 Q2 completion
Backup capabilities for all current operational IDP services (HRRR, MRMS, etc., ) running on IDP at the College Park, MD facility
NWSTG services and data flow will continue to be migrated resulting in more services having redundant capabilities once Boulder, CO goes live

7. Status: IDP Boulder Build Out
Current images of progress of IDP Boulder Build Out
Network Patch Racks Installed
IDP Racks Row
Phase 1 backbone cable
CT set and piped

8. Project Overview Sponsored by IDP: GRB/H8RB Antenna Systems
The GRB/H8RB antenna project is replacing today’s NWS Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) and Multi-Functional Transport Satellite (MTSAT) antenna systems for the GOES-R and Himawari 8/9 series of satellites at eight (8) NWS field offices.
The new NWS antenna systems will:
Receive, ingest and process GOES-R and H8 rebroadcast data
Run basic algorithms (for imagery and Level 2 products (future capability)
Interface with NWS networks for:
product distribution to NWS forecaster workstations, i.e., to Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS II)
product distribution to other key NWS field offices and NGDC
local and remote monitoring
local and remote troubleshooting
Provide continuity of operations into the GOES-R/GRB and Himawari era
Operational for GOES-R ground readiness
GOES-R Overview – Major NESDIS GOES-R Systems

9. Project Overview Hosted by IDP: Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS)
MADIS is a meteorological database and data delivery system that covers the globe.
MADIS provides a high resolution (temporal and spatial), higher quality, easy access observational data system for NOAA and the greater meteorological community.
MADIS helps improve weather forecasting, by providing support for data assimilation, numerical weather prediction, and other hydrometeorological applications.
Achieve this by leveraging partnerships with international agencies; federal, state, and local agencies; universities; volunteer networks; and the private sector to integrate their stations with those of NOAA.
On January 22, 2015 MADIS went live in NWS operations at the NWS’ National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Central Operations (NCO) as part of the Integrated Dissemination Program (IDP).
66,127 stations from over 160 surface networks producing nearly 13 million observations per day
154 Profiler sites (>200,000 observations per day)
>650,000 aircraft observations per day
Plus global radiosonde and satellite observations

10. Project Overview Hosted by IDP: Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor System (MRMS) (1 of 2)
The Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) system integrates radar, surface observations, satellite data, and numerical analysis and prediction and generates an automated, seamless national mosaic of 3-D reflectivity, storm attributes and precipitation phase
Resolution of 0.01°lat x 0.01°lon with a 2 min update cycle
Enhances NWS Decision Support capabilities by providing quality-controlled 3D radar mosaics for analysis, forecasting, verification, and NWP model initialization
MRMS was created by NSSL and transitioned to real-time
NWS operations on 9/30/2014 where it runs on the IDP Processing Infrastructure
NSSL built and maintains an MRMS development environment nearly identical to IDP system in content and data flow to test and evaluate new science and technologies for operational implementation.

11. Project Overview Hosted by IDP: Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor System (MRMS) (2 of 2)
Over the next two major upgrades, MRMS will become the radar provider for NWS RIDGE II and MRMS will become the single authoritative source for CONUS wide mosaics
By the end of 2015, MRMS will add on additional domains in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the western Pacific
MRMS Full Operating Capability, which will run the full suite of products operationally over all domains, is scheduled to occur in July 2016

12. Project Overview Hosted by IDP: NOAA/NOS nowCOAST GIS Web Mapping Portal Migration to ArcGIS Server & NOAA IDP Infrastructure (1 of 2)
NOAA/NOS nowCOAST is a GIS-based web mapping portal displaying near real-time observations, analyses, imagery, tide predictions, model guidance, watches/warnings/advisories, and forecasts for the coastal United States.
Provides situational awareness/coastal intelligence on present and future environmental conditions for coastal and marine users by integrating data and information from across NOAA as well other federal agencies such as USGS and EPA.
New experimental Version of nowCOAST available at:
Known DOD and DHS users/partners:
US Air Force Weather Agency/Air Mobility Command at Scott Air Force Base’s map viewers are presently consuming maps from nowCOAST map services until they can overcome an IT connectivity issue and switch AFWA data sets instead.
DOD/U.S. Marine Corps’ Geofidelis East Map Viewer connects to nowCOAST’s map services and has done so for more than 5 years
The USMC’s map viewer is used by USMC Emergency Operations Centers across the East Coast
DOD/National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
DHS National Operations Center
DHS/US Coast Guard
DHS Integrated Common Analytic Viewer (iCAV) map viewer
Using iCAV, homeland security partners can establish a comprehensive situational and strategic awareness across the nation and around the globe to better prepare, prevent, respond and recover from natural and man-made disasters. Users are able to see critical infrastructure information in a dynamic map form and provides access to numerous data sources in one central location.

13. NOAA IDP Hosting Facility
Project Overview Hosted by IDP: NOAA/NOS nowCOAST GIS Web Mapping Portal Migration to ArcGIS Server & NOAA IDP Infrastructure (2 of 2)
Provide users with situational awareness/coastal intelligence for coastal & marine users by integrating
near-real-time, watches/warnings, & forecasts of weather, oceanographic, and hydrological conditions
from across NOAA and other federal agencies.
nowCOAST NOS
nowCOAST NOAA IDP
ArcGIS Server/
PostgreSQL Based
ArcIMS/Oracle Based
NOAA/NOS nowCOAST is a GIS-based web mapping portal displaying near real-time observations, analyses, imagery, tide predictions, model guidance, watches/warnings/advisories, and forecasts for the coastal United States.
nowCOAST provides situational awareness/coastal intelligence on present and future environmental conditions for coastal and marine users by integrating data and information from across NOAA including NWS, NOS, and NESDIS as well other federal agencies such as USGS and EPA.
New experimental Version of nowCOAST available at: It has been developed by the NOS Office of Coast Survey’s nowCOAST Development Team during the last 3 years.
New data layers include: Additional NDFD forecast variables, NCEP/OPC Simulated Satellite Near-Real-Time Lightning Strike Density
Known DOD and DHS users:
US Air Force Weather Agency/Air Mobility Command at Scott Air Force Base’s map viewers are presently consuming maps from nowCOAST map services until they can overcome an IT connectivity issue and switch AFWA data sets instead.
DOD/U.S. Marine Corps’ Geofidelis East Map Viewer connects to nowCOAST’s map services and done so for more than 5 years
(The USMC’s map viewer is used by USMC Emergency Operations Centers across the East Coast)
DOD/National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
DHS National Operations Center
DHS/US Coast Guard
DHS Integrated Common Analytic Viewer (iCAV) map viewer
(Using iCAV, homeland security partners can establish a comprehensive situational and strategic awareness across the nation and around the globe to better prepare, prevent, respond and recover from natural and man-made disasters. iCAV allows users to see critical infrastructure information in a dynamic map form and provides access to numerous data sources in one central location. )
Interactions with USAFWA since 2006
FYI – nowCOAST Team met with personnel US Air Force Weather Agency back in 2006 when USAFA was starting to develop observational and forecast GIS weather services in classified environments for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) as part of Project Homeland.
Benefits of Migration
New Map Viewer
New Map Services
NOAA IDP Hosting Facility
Modern look and feel, easier to use
Unified time control for all layers
Animation
Able to use ESRI Base Maps
Able to overlay external map services
Provide time-enabled services
Provide ArcGIS REST & WMS access
Better performance, scalability
More functionality
Easier administration
Additional data layers
Provide 24 x 7 monitoring & response
Backup Site
Direct access to many input data sets
Provide high reliability for users & partners
Milestone: nowCOAST v5.0 becomes operational at NOAA IDP in late August 2015.

14. Questions?
Thank you.