Coastal and Climate Management Mission

1. Mission support Presented by Timothy J. Schmit

2. Requirement, Science, and Benefit Mission Goals • Protect, Restore, and Manage the Use of Coastal and Ocean Resources through an Ecosystem Approach to Management • Understand Climate Variability and Change to Enhance Society’s Ability to Plan and Respond • Serve Society’s Needs for Weather and Water Information • Support the Nation’s Commerce with Information for Safe, Efficient, and Environmentally Sound Transportation Science • STAR works with many (internal, external and international) to further the mission goals Benefits • National Weather Service and their customers (Emergency planners, General public, Numerical Weather Prediction, etc.) • Aviation • Air Quality • Department of Defense • International users (Central America, South America, Pacific, etc.) • Broadcasters, Etc.

3. Outline • Goals: Continuity and Improved Services • STAR supports NESDIS and NOAA in their mission to assess current conditions and predict future changes on the Earth, and to understand long-term changes in the environment. • The STAR mission is to transfer satellite observations of the land, atmosphere, ocean, and climate from scientific research and development into routine operations, and to offer state-of-the-art data, products and services to decision-makers. • STAR develops a diverse spectrum of complex, often interrelated, environmental algorithms and software systems. These systems are developed through extensive research programs, and transitioned from research to operations when a sufficient level of maturity and end-user acceptance is achieved. • NOAA interactions (examples via oral presentations, etc.) • NASA interactions (examples via posters) • Other/International interactions (examples via posters)

4. Ecosystem Mission GoalResearch Areas • Advancing understanding of ecosystems to improve resource management • Exploring our oceans • Forecasting ecosystems events • Developing scenarios and building capacity to support regional management Harmful Algal Blooms in Chesapeake Bay

5. Climate Mission Goal Research Areas • Develop an integrated global observation and data management system for routine delivery of information on the current state of the climate • Document and understand changes in climate forcings and feedbacks, thereby reducing uncertainty in climate projections • Improve skill of climate predictions and projections and increase range of applicability for management and policy decision • Understand impacts of climate variability and change on marine ecosystems to improve their management • Enhance NOAA’s operational decision support tools to provide climate services for nationalsocio-economic benefits. The interannual variability in high cloud averaged over the month of July for 1983, 1988, 1993 and 1998. Areas with large amounts of high cloud are red; areas with less high cloud are blue.

6. Weather & Water Mission GoalResearch Areas Smoke Smoke Smoke Smoke • Improve weather forecast and warning accuracy and amount of lead time • Improve water resources forecasting capabilities • Provide information to air-quality decision makers and improve NOAA’s national air quality forecast capability • Improve NOAA’s understanding and forecast capability in coasts, estuaries and oceans MODIS Color Composite

7. Commerce & Transportation Mission Goal Research Areas Ash Cloud Mass Loading (ton/km2) Ash Height (km) 0 5 10 15 20 • Explore, develop and transition emerging technologies and techniques to enhance marine navigational safety and efficiency • Provide accurate, timely and integrated weather information to meet air and surface transportation needs • Improve accuracy of positioning capabilities to realize national economic, safety and environmental benefits • Develop the information and tools to make reliable decisions in preparedness, response, damage assessment and restoration

8. Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission – Example of NOAA-NASA Collaboration NOAA’s Steering Group on Precipitation Measurement from Space • NOAA will greatly benefit by advanced precipitation products generated by GPM • Weather and Water, Climate goals • NOAA’s participation in GPM is guided by a SG as per NRC (2007) recommendation • Cross LO involvement (NESDIS, NWS, OAR) • NOAA engaging with NASA for past 6 years: • Precipitation Measurement Missions (PMM) Science Team • Cutting edge R&D • Joint ground validation • Exchanging satellite assets • Ad-Hoc meetings • NOAA involvement in NASA White papers, review panels, steering groups, international planning workshops, etc. • STAR and OSD leads NOAA GPM programmatic activities • R2O plans being developed • Working PPBES/Budgets

9. NASA/NOAA GOES-14 Post-launch Testing GOES-14 GOES-12 The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES)-14 post-launch check-outs are examples of NASA and NOAA and others (Cooperative Institutes) working together. For all GOES check-outs, the goals of the Science Test include the following: • To assess the quality of the GOES radiance data. • To generate products from the GOES data stream and compare to those produced from other satellites. • Rapid-scan imagery of interesting weather cases are collected with temporal resolutions as fine as every 30 seconds. The 13.3 um band 6 of the GOES-12 (left panel) has an 8 km IGFOV (Instantaneous Geometric Field of View); while the same band on the GOES-14 (right panel) has a 4 km IGFOV. Note the finer resolution of the cloud edges and the ‘cleaner’ image.

10. Private sector GOES-R Benefit analysis Beyond Current GOES Series 1 Discounted at 7% ABI-related incremental benefit of $4.6 B Other Potential Benefits ??? Improved Sounder Updated CBA (HES) $2.3B TC Forecast (HRSS) ABI-Related $1.9B $4.2B Updated CBA (ABI) $2.2B $2.4B TC Forecast (ABI) $4.6B Many applications and users were not included in this limited study.

12. GSICS is an international example • Global Space-based Inter-Calibration System (GSICS) • Goal - Enhance calibration and validation of satellite observations and to intercalibrate critical components global observing system • Part of WMO Space Programme • GSICS Implementation Plan and Program formally endorsed at CGMS 34 (11/06)

13. Summary • STAR works with many (internal, external and international) to further the mission goals • Within agency • NWS, NOS, etc. • With other agencies • NASA, FAA, EPA, DoD, etc. • With other governmental entities • State, tribal, etc. • With other countries • EUMETSAT, Japan, Canada, China, India, Russia, Brazil, etc. • international groups (WMO, GEOSS, CEOS, etc.)