AWIPS Software Recommendation and Evaluation Committee (SREC) Status Meeting

1. AWIPS Software Recommendation and Evaluation Committee (SREC) Status Meeting January 31, 2006 Systems Engineering Center

2. Agenda • OB7 Status • Content, Schedule • Planning for OB8 • Action Item review • Next Meeting Agenda

3. OB7 StatusContents • SREC approved OB7 contents broken up into 2 smaller releases – 7.1 and 7.2 • See Appendix A specific contents • Release 7.1 – DS Decom, Dx3/4, OS/COTS, Applications, OB6 pushed items, critical DRs • Release 7.2 – DS Decom (MHS, NIS), Remaining OB7 items, DRs • Looking for opportunity to add a few data tasks previously discussed at the October 2005 SREC meeting into Release 7.2. • Simulated Reflectivity from WRF (06-001) • High Resolution Global SST Analysis (06-002) • SPC Convective Outlook • GOES Low Cloud Base (05-062) • Climate: Preliminary F6

4. OB7 StatusSchedule

5. OB8 PlanningSchedule December 2005 Finalize SREC Categories and Development Allocation December 2005 Finalize SREC Process January 2006 Finalize draft list of OB8 Task February 2006 Prioritize draft list of OB8 tasks March 2006 Obtain sizing information and develop release contents April 2006 SREC and S&T Approval May 1, 2006 Task Development Organizations

6. OB8 Planning – OB7 ProcessImprovement • Concern: Refine SREC Categories and Responsibilities • Tactical and Strategic Lists mixed together • Concern about New Science category • Not easy to categorize • Directive changes not addressed • DRs not done as part of SREC • Need method to handle Small Enhancements • Improvement: Proposed SREC Changes • Categories • Strategic • Infrastructure • Adaptive and Corrective Maintenance (A&C) • Include • New Science • Directive Changes • Small Enhancements • DRs

7. OB8 Planning – SREC Categories • Strategic • Definition • Advance the state of the AWIPS system • Longer term or less mature items requiring more planning, investment in resources, and are of greater complexity • Examples • Next Generation Warning Tool, Improve Installation Times, Software Training, LDAD Server Replacement • Responsibilities • Gathering and Prioritization • Jason Tuell (SEC – Programming Branch) • Members with Strategic view • Release Approval • SREC and S&T Committee

8. OB8 Planning – SREC Categories • Infrastructure • Definition • Changes to adapt to new technology (software and hardware), and to enhance system performance, stability and maintainability • Examples • COTS changes, utilizing new hardware, GRIB2 Decoder transition from MDL to NCEP decoder, removing local data access on NAS, site identifier changes, time zone changes • Responsible • Gathering and Prioritization • Tim Hopkins (SEC – Analysis Branch) • Members with a system point of view • Development Organizations, Raytheon/Keane, TTs and DR analysis, SwEG, SET, Performance Working Group • Release Approval • SREC and S&T Committee

9. OB8 Planning – SREC Categories • Adaptive and Corrective Maintenance (A&C) • Definition • Enhance existing applications and services to accommodate new products or process and produce immediate and substantial return given the time and resources invested in their implementation • New Science • Nearer term or more mature items, lower hanging fruit, small enhancements • Changes to NWS Directives that require an AWIPS software change • DRs • Examples • Most of the OB7 SREC Tactical items (e.g., ingest and display of radar data, model data) • Responsible • Gathering and Prioritization • Edwin Welles (SEC – Development Branch) • Members with a user point of view • Release Approval • SREC and S&T Committee

10. OB8 Planning – SREC Process • Gather potential candidates • SEC IWT members will submit potential candidates for OB8 or OB9 • Responsibility: SEC OSIP IWT members • Items on the original AWIPS Master List must re-enter through OSIP (e.g., SON) • Responsibility: SREC members • This is a continuing process…the IWT leads will submit to the SREC a request for a release to complete the Gate 2 or Gate 3 Project Plan • Add candidates to the new SREC Master List • Assign to a category (Strategic, A&C) and to the AWIPS Master List • Responsibility: SEC Management • SREC Master list will be kept at the SREC Website • Responsibility: OST/SEC – SREC Vice Chair • For each category, evaluate and prioritize candidates, based on mission priorities, for integration into the AWIPS baseline • Responsibility: SREC Voting members • Must Do items as defined by senior management (i.e., memo) will be given the highest priority • Weighted averages will be used to compile voting

11. OB8 Planning – SREC Process • For each category, conduct a high level analysis on the top priority recommendations and determine an AWIPS release. • This analysis will includes impacts (e.g., SBN Bandwidth), level of effort, and resources available to fulfill need • SEC has the option to change development allocation • Responsibility: Raytheon/Keane with assistance from SEC and the Development organizations • SREC Approval • SREC voting members will have an opportunity to comment and suggest changes to the release content • S&T Committee Approval • Prepared Change Requests for AWIPS CCB approval • Software Release and Data Items (e.g., RUC, Polar Vis)

12. OB8 PlanningDevelopment Allocation • Development Allocation for FY06 briefed to Corporate Board was not achieved • More effort in A&C • Less effort in Infrastructure and Strategic • Increase Infrastructure and Strategic, and decrease A&C for OB8 • Even out the overall distribution for FY06 to be more like the Corporate Board vision

13. OB8 PlanningDevelopment Allocation Briefed to Corporate Board Actual OB7 Planned OB8

14. OB8 Candidates • Infrastructure • OS Upgrade • COTS Upgrades • Transition to RedHat Package Manager • Communications Interface between NCF and Replacement Telecommunications Gateway (RTG) • Port to NCEP GRIB2 Decoder • GFE Performance Improvements • Removing local data access on NAS • Consolidate MOS/BUFR Decoders • Option on D2D to allow isopleth interval to be set during zooming (Approved OB1 RC) • Allow user ability to save a multiple pane setup as a single procedure (ER suggestion) • GIS for RFCs • Replace Simpacts • Trouble Ticket Analysis • Elimination of all use of "R" commands in AWIPS

15. OB8 Candidates • Infrastructure • Hydrology • Re-Implement/Modernize the NWSRFS Interactive Calibration Program (ICP) • As the new functionality for ICP will continue to be required, the ability to enhance and extend the software is necessary to allow the NWS to continue to calibrate hydrologic models for additional forecast points throughout the country. The ICP needs to be redesigned and re-implemented based on a recently created functional requirements specification. • Synchronize RFC Archive Database and IHFS Database Meta Data • A requirement for the sharing of meta-data between the IHFS Database and the RFC Archive Database exists. • Software Tool(s) need to be developed. • Continue Migrating WHFS HydroView Into D2D • Previously in OB5, station observation and forecast data from the IHFS Database was made available for plotting on maps in D2D using the OHD Point Data Control (PDC) feature as implemented by MDL. • In this task we would like to explore the continued merging of WHFS HydroView capability into D2D to ultimately remove the necessary context switching a forecaster must do today to view and assess the hydrologic situation (using HydroView) separately from the meteorological situation (using D2D). • The key tasks would be to update and improve the PDC, merge HydroView geographic map displays into D2D, and merge the myriad of non-geographical informational pop-ups from HydroView into D2D.

16. OB8 Candidates • Strategic • Distributed Hydrologic Modeling (04-007)    • OHD enhancements to DHM; • WFOA/D-2D enhancements in support of grids at WFOs (OB7 was RFC only) • GFE support of DHM grids • Next Generation Warning Tool (04-008) • NCEP Short/Med Range Models (05-007) •    add HPC six hourly QPF grids (00 - 72 hours) •    add CPC 6-10 and 8-14 day Temp and Precip Grids • Analysis of Record (05-008) • Add RTMA products for OCONUS (one or both of AK Region and Pacific Region) (Same parameter set as CONUS). • Add more parameters to the CONUS (and, if any as in item 1, above, OCONUS) • Some candidate parameters: MaxT, MinT, pressure. • Complete baseline changes for GFE support of RTMA (CONUS and, if any as in item 1, OCONUS) • Visualization Techniques (05-021) • Develop prototype data distribution method (05-040) • NWS AWIPS Software Training Capability (05-081) • i.e., Displace Real Time • Improve Installation time (05-058) • Aviation Tiger Team • Graphical Products in AWIPS (05-68) • Tactical Decision Aids (Graf – OCWWS) • 4D Weather Information (Graf – OCWWS) • Replace LDAD Servers (Hopkins – SEC)

17. OB8 Candidates • Corrective and Adaptive Maintenance • DRs • new DRs found during OB8 development and old DRs currently on the books of sufficient priority • NWS Directives Changes • Place holder for possible software changes needed for, as yet unknown • Radar • Super Resolution 88D base products (04-002) • Additional TDWR products (e.g., storm track, mesocyclone, tornado, rainfall accumulation, VIL) (04-001) • MIGFA Gust Front Product (05-061) • ARSR-4 and ASR-11 radar products • Canadian Radar products (04-013) • Estimated Actual Velocity • Moving Point Meteogram • Integrated Radar/Environmental Sampling

18. OB8 Candidates • Corrective and Adaptive Maintenance • Model • NOGAPS (OB6 SREC) • FNMOC Wave Watch Model Guidance (OB6 SREC) • ECMWF model (05-070) • All 12 km Eta products CONUS & AK upgraded to 10 km WRF (OB7 SREC) • All fields for GFE initialization • Improved Medium-Range Model Guidance (e.g., ECMWF) (05-070) • SPCs Convective Outlook (NCEP - Gordon) • Operational Modeling for Great Lakes (05-083) • Gridded MOS (OCONUS, additional fields) (05-006) • Low Cloud Base Product (05-062) • High Resolution Background files (05-071) • site procedures to download new shape files and run some localization scripts • Ensembles (WR – Edman) • 4-D StormCell Investigator (05-084) • MADIS (WR – Edman) • Supplemental observations

19. OB8 Candidates • Corrective and Adaptive Maintenance • OHD • Complete Integration of RFC QPE Tools into a Common National QPE System • Complete the integration of appropriate components of Western Region’s “Mountain Mapper” suite of local applications into the OHD Multi-Sensor Precipitation Estimator (MPE). • Add the ability to MPE to automatically create three new output QPE grids using satellite precipitation estimation data. They are the Satellite-Radar-Gage product, the Satellite-Gage product, and the Satellite-Radar product. • Replace SACSMA Frozen Ground Algorithm • The new frozen ground algorithm to be added into the NWSRFS SACSMA model accounts more completely and precisely for the effects of frozen ground upon rainfall runoff computations than the current algorithm. • The effects of frozen ground are particularly important in the spring runoff when frozen ground causes increases in the runoff. The new frozen ground algorithm also computes soil moisture and temperature at selected depths allowing the NWS to provide additional information to customers. • Today, the new algorithm exists in a scientific prototype and must be made operational for the RFCs.

20. OB8 Candidates • Corrective and Adaptive Maintenance • OHD • WHFS Site-Specific Hydrologic Prediction (SSHP) Model • OCWWS/HSD has written a Need Identification Document and two Statements Of Need (SON) for improvements to the SSHP. • The two SONs address the need to add a snow melt modeling capability and to add a small tributary connectivity capability. • Enhance NWSRFS Streamflow Regulation Accounting Tools • Operational use and testing of the NWSRFS “RES-J” operation, including its application to streamflow regulation accounting with the Missouri Basin River Forecast Center (MBRFC), has revealed the need and value of enhancing RES-J functionality. • Specific to this task are four enhancements, RES-J Hindcasting Capability, RES-J “Lookup3”, RES-J Diversion From a Node, and RES-J Variable Lag in Lag/K.

21. SREC Action Review • For NOGAPS and FNMOC OCWWS will prepare a memo for CIO to ask that resources be devoted to this task (Weeks). • Status – Letter prepared. Action Closed • OCWWS will look at the level of effort required to see what it would take to get a new agreement for ECWMF (Art Thomas) • Status – Recommend going through OSIP. Action Closed • The SEC will clarify the requirements and then coordinate the activities and funding required implementing this request for additional Alpha testing at Regional Headquarters (Mandel). • Status – Working issue • Send out a memo asking for approval from the SREC voting members of the OB7 contents contained in Attachment 1. (Mandel) • Status – Approval letters received from voting members. Action closed.

22. SREC Action Review • Action: Brief OCWWS management on the OSIP process for small enhancements and discusses how to best manage the development and implementation of NWS directives (Mandel) • Status – Conducted on January 17, 2006 • Action (Mandel) • Identify method to handle small enhancements

23. Next Meeting Agenda • Meeting to be held on February 28 at 2:30pm EDT • OB7 Status • Planning for OB8 • Finalize potential tasks for OB8 • Begin prioritization • Review of action items

24. Appendix AOB7 Contents – 7.1 • Infrastructure • Operating System and COTS Upgrades (GSD, Keane, OHD) • D2D, ADAPT, OHD, GFE, MHS, LAPS, NMAP, NWRWAVES, RFC software • Decommission DS (GSD, SEC, Keane, OHD) • Move all applications (e.g., Port Dial-Up Radar, LDAD capability, MHS, GFE, AVNFPS) • Utilize DX3/DX4 (Keane) • Time Zone Changes • Name change for Guam • Deployed prior to OB7.1 to Guam by SST • Indiana • Deployed prior to OB7.1 to no more than 3 sites by SST • DST Start/End time changes • Key West Identifier Change (GSD, Keane, OHD) • Deployed prior to OB7.1 to selected sites around Key West by Keane (May 2, 2006) • New Chat Server Client (DR 16790) (SEC) • IFPS Enhancements (Keane) • PostgreSQL conversion • Remove Obsolete code • Additional Frame (64) Capability (GSD) • Display Subset of GFE parameters in D2D (GSD) • Installation with Red Hat Package Manager (SEC)

25. Appendix AOB7 Contents – 7.1 • GFE (GSD) • Data Items • Add the capability to use NCDC climatological data in GFE for display, smart tools, and formatters • OPC and TAFB Offshore Gridded Significant Wave Height Forecasts in GFE • Add the capability to use Gridded MOS data in GFE for display, smart tools, and formatters • Model name change from ETA to NAM • Regional Change requests • SRF Formatter • CWF/Infra: provide option to label 24-hr periods with day of week (tk4468) • Directive Changes (NWS 10-503) • Changes in GFE Practice Mode • Temperature Phrasing changes (10-503) • Cloud Category Changes (10-503) • No upper PoP thresholds for ZFP (10-503) • Steady Temperature Phrases (10-503) • Sky/Wx/Pop phrasing (10-503) • Product Expiration Times (all) • SFT addition of nighttime PoPs

26. Appendix AOB7 Contents – 7.1 • GFE (GSD) • This DCS also includes derived requirements and required formatter infrastructure changes to support the above development and compliance with directives. These generally are small development items. These include: • Limiting increasing/decreasing wording in Scalar Phrases (tk4112) • Removing issuanceType option in AFD (tk4461) • SampleAnalysis: option for getExistingWeightedAggregateCov, getHighestWeightedAggregrateCov and noWx_Percentage thresholds (tk4539,4551,4555) • AFD update section before Discussion section (tk4544) • includeCities, includeZoneName, cityDescriptor additions to GenericReport (tk4576) • cmd line variables to override Definition entries (tk4577) • getPopType refinements in ScalarPhrases (tk4589) • Allowed Hazards changes for tropical (tk4630) • ZFP/SAF ordering of wind summary and report Trends (tk4633) • More complete error recovery from inifinite loop (tk4640) • Sky/Pop/Wx and local effects (tk4552) • VTEC default mode of "O", except for "X" on MWS • TCV/CWF VTEC UPG headlines • FFA list of counties/areas and wording improvements

27. Appendix AOB7 Contents – 7.1 • GFE (GSD) • Improvements to Automated testing - Changes to support improved automated support improved testing. • Infrastructure Improvements - Small enhancements for GUI and other Infrastructure operations of GFE involving infrastructure. Improvements includes these type of tasks: • Spell checker enhancement (tk4473) • Product Editor generation of segment times in error (tk4538) • WindChill/Heat Index tools conform to limits (tk4598) • MakeHazard procedure - add descriptors (tk4600) • MakeHazard procedure - LB.Y needs to be added (tk4601) • MergeHazards procedure - should be writable (tk4608) • Ice Desk Configuration for AFC in serverConfig (tk4624) • SiteInfo for IWX needs updating (tk4626) • Diagnostics for bad wx key or discrete key, show original string (tk4627) • configureTextProducts for RFCs shoujld ignore unknown WFO info (tk4614) • iscMosaic - add configurable delay for grids for MDL svc bckup (tk4652)

28. Appendix AOB7 Contents – 7.1 • Model • Gridded MOS (CONUS)-5km grid, issued 2x daily (Keane with data from MDL) • Radar (GSD) • Snowfall Accumulation Product • Plan View Display of VWP • Mesocyclone Detection Algorithm • DVL low value/linear scale change • RDA/SZ-2 Range Unfolding VCPs • All Tilts Navigation improvements • Aviation Forecast Preparation System (AVNFPS) Version 3.2 (MDL) • Conditional Climatology Overhaul • Creation of Guidance TAF • Enhance AvnFPS to monitor TAF flight categories • Monitor ceiling and visibility grids • Overhaul TWEB QC routines • Satellite (GSD) • Polar Visible and IR Imagery

29. Appendix AOB7 Contents – 7.1 • Hydrology (OHD) • WHFS HydroView Enhancement to Replace “Mapper” (partial) • Integration of RFC QPE tools into a common National System (partial) • RSA Modifications (GSD) • Tabular text application • Time Series changes to ordinate (y-axis) labeling • Volume Browser • accommodation for feet and ft AGL in VB height scales • on-the-fly analysis of mesonet data in VB • radar data avbl in VB for cross sections, etc. • range rings extension • DRs (GSD, Keane, OHD, MDL, CR, OOS)

30. Appendix AOB7 Contents – 7.2 • Infrastructure • Decommission DS (Keane) • MHS and NIS Master • COTS Change (GSD, Keane, OHD) • Degib 1.75+ • Convert RFC Archiver Databases & Software to PostgreSQL (OHD) • Test/Practice Mode Enhancements (GSD) • IFPS (Keane) • Service Backup Enhancements • Decommission WWA (GSD, MDL) • Intelligent Purger Enhancements (GSD) • Remove WSFO logic from localization (GSD)

31. Appendix AOB7 Contents – 7.2 • Radar (GSD, Keane) • Send environmental data from AWIPS to RPG • Generate products for non-assoc. user requests (e.g, RCS, VCS, ULR, USP) • Add products to TDWR SPG • candidates are: composite reflectivity (CZ and/or ULR), VAD wind profile (VWP), Vertically Integrated Liquid (VIL)

32. Appendix AOB7 Contents – 7.2 • Model data (Keane) • GFS BUFR Sounding Data • Full suite of SREF products for CONUS and OCONUS • All 40 km RUC products upgraded to 13 km • LAMP Products (Text, BUFR, gridded) • OPC and TAFB Offshore Gridded Significant Wave Height Forecasts • Analysis of record (Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis – RTMA) • Gridded MOS (CONUS)-5km grid, issued 2x daily (additional variables)

33. Appendix AOB7 Contents – 7.2 • Hydrology • Operational Implementation of Distributed Hydrologic Modeling (OHD, Keane) • Includes display menu and map menu changes • WHFS HydroView Enhancement to Replace “Mapper” (complete 7.1 work) (OHD) • Integration of RFC QPE tools into a common National System (complete 7.1 work) (OHD) • Satellite (Keane) • Polar Microwave Products • Cloud Amount DPI • NWRWAVES (CR, OOS)

34. Appendix AOB7 Contents – 7.2 • Decision Assistance (MDL) • SCAN Enhancements • SAFESEAS Enhancements • Fog Monitor • FFMP Enhancements • Guardian • System for Nowcasting Of Winter Weather (SNOW) • LSR Enhancements • Aviation Forecast Preparation System (AVNFPS) (MDL) • TBD • GFE (GSD) • 25% of Effort • Regional Change requests • Site support and NCF training • 75% of the effort • Performance Enhancements to be delivered Post OB7 • RSA Modifications (GSD) • LDAD storage changes to accommodate more frequent reports • DRS (GSD, Keane, OHD, MDL, CR, OOS)