1. DRAFT POES-GOES-GPS Blended TPW Products July ??, 2008 Preliminary Design Review

2. PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW POES-GOES-GPS Blended TPW Products DRAFT 2 July ??, 2008 Outline Team Members Product Overview Project Requirements System Design Quality Assurance Documentation Project Timeline Issues To Be Resolved

3. PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW POES-GOES-GPS Blended TPW Products DRAFT 3 July ??, 2008 Team Members Limin Zhao, John Paquette and Stan Kidder  Project Leads Andy Jones and John Forsythe  Lead Scientists Ivan Tcherednitchenko  Lead Developer Peter Keehn  System Implementer ??????  User Team(?) ??????  POP Lead (?)

4. PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW POES-GOES-GPS Blended TPW Products DRAFT 4 July ??, 2008 Product Overview (1) TPW Product  Over water: Blended AMSU & SSM/I (Kidder & Jones 2007)  Over land (primarily CONUS): Primary: GPS PW (Ref?) Backup: GOES PW (Ref?) 0 mm 25 mm50 mm 75 mm Total Precipitable Water

5. PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW POES-GOES-GPS Blended TPW Products DRAFT 5 July ??, 2008 Product Overview (2) Percent of Normal TPW Product  TPW divided by NVAP weekly normal TPW (Ref?) 100% 0% 200% Percent of Normal TPW

6. PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW POES-GOES-GPS Blended TPW Products DRAFT 6 July ??, 2008 Product Overview (3) Products produced every 6 hr, nominally at 00, 06, 12, and 18 UTC Map: Mercator, 71°N to 71°S, 16 km resolution at equator Each product is about 3.5 Mbytes in size (28 Mbytes per day) Input data:  5 days of AMSU and SSM/I data (? Mbytes)  most current GPS PW and GOES PW (? Mbytes) Output data  HDF-EOS format  McIDAS format  AWIPS format

7. PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW POES-GOES-GPS Blended TPW Products DRAFT 7 July ??, 2008 Project Requirements SPSRB  #9902-19 POES/DMSP Blended Products: Generate operational blended TPW and RR products from POES and DMSP sensors Others  OSIP 06-084  NWS OB9  User requests fromn varous WFOs  NOAA’s Hydrometeorological Testbed (HMT)  NOAA’s Scientific Data Stewardship (SDS) program Proposed products satisfy all requirements

8. PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW POES-GOES-GPS Blended TPW Products DRAFT 8 July ??, 2008 System Design Products will be generated at NSOF AIX Machine will host Input data:  AMSU and SSM/I data acquired from DDS  GPS data acquired from ???  GOES PW data acquired from ??? Output data (in ??? format) hosted on DDS Output fields converted to AWIPS format and distributed by NOAAPORT (???) (I’m sure I’m leaving things out)

9. PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW POES-GOES-GPS Blended TPW Products DRAFT 9 July ??, 2008 Quality Assurance By CIRA/StAR/SAB?

10. PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW POES-GOES-GPS Blended TPW Products DRAFT 10 July ??, 2008 Documentation Document 1—written by ? Document 2—written by ? …

11. PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW POES-GOES-GPS Blended TPW Products DRAFT 11 July ??, 2008 Project Timeline (1) Mar 08: Development Phase Begins  Mar 08: IPT Branch Lead informed to begin product development  Mar 08: Initial Archive Requirements identified  Mar 08: Quality Monitoring Concept Defined  Mar 08: Static test data file provided to NWS/AWIPS (OB9.x)  May 08: Long-term Maintenance Concept Defined  Jun 08: Preliminary Design Review  Jun 08: Development processing system defined  Sep 08: Critical Design Review  Oct 08: Code is prepared for implementation  Oct 08: Final Archive requirements identified  Oct 08: Operational and backup processing defined

12. PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW POES-GOES-GPS Blended TPW Products DRAFT 12 July ??, 2008 July 08: Pre-operational Phase Begins  July 08: Pre-operational product output evaluated & tested  July 08: Final/Streaming product delivered to NWS/AWIPS  Nov 08: Operational and backup processing capabilities in place  Nov 08: Final IT Security Concept Defined  Jan 09: Code transitions to operations; all documentation is complete  Jan 08: Operational and backup capabilities reach ops status  Jan 09: Brief SPSRB capability is ready to operational Feb 09: Operational Phase Begins  Feb 09: SPSRB declares product operational SPSRB Secretaries/manager update the SPSRB product metrics web pages OSD updates Satellite Products database Back to Index Project Timeline (2)

13. PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW POES-GOES-GPS Blended TPW Products DRAFT 13 July ??, 2008 Issues To Be Resolved Porting DPEAS to AIX

14. PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW POES-GOES-GPS Blended TPW Products DRAFT 14 July ??, 2008 Backup Slides

15. PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW POES-GOES-GPS Blended TPW Products DRAFT 15 July ??, 2008 Outline Project Overview (Limin and Stan) Project Management Overview and Planning (Limin) AWIPS Requirements (John P) DPEAS (Andy) Operational System Design and Development (Limin and Andy) Processing System Infrastructure (Ivan and Limin) Products and Validation Plans (Stan and John F ) QC Monitoring (Ivan and Limin) Operational Integration and Data Dissemination (Ivan and Peter) Summary (Limin)

16. PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW POES-GOES-GPS Blended TPW Products DRAFT 16 July ??, 2008 Integrated Product Team Limin Zhao, John Paquette and Stan Kidder  Project Leads Andy Jones and John Forsythe  Lead Scientists Ivan Tcherednitchenko  Lead Developer Peter Keehn  System Implementer

17. PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW POES-GOES-GPS Blended TPW Products DRAFT 17 July ??, 2008 Project Overview

18. PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW POES-GOES-GPS Blended TPW Products DRAFT 18 July ??, 2008 Background Terminology Presentations Requirements Goals

19. PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW POES-GOES-GPS Blended TPW Products DRAFT 19 July ??, 2008 Terminology Blended TPW – Blended TPW Normal – DPEAS – GRID - AWIPS – McIDAS -

20. PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW POES-GOES-GPS Blended TPW Products DRAFT 20 July ??, 2008 Presentations PDR  July 8, 2007 CDR  Sept 2008

21. PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW POES-GOES-GPS Blended TPW Products DRAFT 21 July ??, 2008 Requirements Documentation NWS requests SBSRB requirements document

22. PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW POES-GOES-GPS Blended TPW Products DRAFT 22 July ??, 2008 NWS Requirements Document Title: POES-GOES Blended Hydrometeorological Products Product specifications / needs: Atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles from IASI, AMSU-A and MHS. Data Latency: 0.5 ~ 3.0 hrs. Refresh: per 6 hours (possibly 3 hourly). Timeliness (e.g., how soon after observation is product needed?): 0.5 ~ 3.0 hrs

23. PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW POES-GOES-GPS Blended TPW Products DRAFT 23 July ??, 2008 Project Goals Provide users the blended TPW from AMSU, SSMI and GPS. Provide updated blended products by merging data from more sensors, such as, AMSR-E, TRMM, … Provide blended RR products

24. PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEW POES-GOES-GPS Blended TPW Products DRAFT 24 July ??, 2008 POES/GOES Blended Hydro Products Blended TPW Blended TPW Normal Blended RR