AWIPS Software Recommendation and Evaluation Committee (SREC) Status Meeting

1. AWIPS Software Recommendation and Evaluation Committee (SREC) Status Meeting October 25, 2005 Systems Engineering Center

2. Agenda • SREC Website • OB7 Status • Address process for small maintenance items • Next Meeting Agenda

3. SREC Website • Web site location • http://sec.noaa3.awips.noaa.gov/srec/ • Contents • SREC Charter • SREC Point of Contact • SREC Meeting Presentations • SREC Meeting Minutes • Operational Build Contents • AWIPS Release Schedule • AWIPS Master Lists • OSIP Status

4. OB7 Status Development • OB7 Kickoff meeting held on 10/6 • Completed SREC POC listing and schedule milestones for each development task • Attached file (SREC_POC_ScheduleMilestones.xls) • This will be posted at the website • Reviews in Progress • Don’t forget to participate • TOC Moratorium Status • Extended to April 2006 • Outstanding Actions • For NOGAPS and FNMOC OCWWS will prepare a memo for CIO to ask that resources be devoted to this task (Weeks, May). • OCWWS will look at the level of effort required to see what it would take to get a new agreement for ECWMF (Art Thomas)

5. OB7 Status • Latest items requested for OB7 timeframe • Key West Identifier Change (OPS) • Site location changed in Sept 2005 • FAA requires the ID change to KEY • Announcement made stating the change will be made on making January 18, 2006 • Still analyzing (looks like mostly configuration changes) • Time zone change for Guam (PR – Ward) • The request is for products issued by Guam to have the time zone indicator to be _*CHST*_ in uppercase letters. The CHST stands for Chamorro Standard Time Zone. • Minor changes to WarnGen and possibly RiverPro

6. OB7 StatusSummary of Changes • Tasks Removed • Lack of development resources • SEC, FSL: Removing local data access on NAS • SEC: Consolidate MOS/BUFR Decoders • FSL: Improve installation times • FSL: Develop prototype data distribution method • OHD: Integrate CHPS Data Services for RRS • Data not available • Super Resolution 88D base products • NOGAPS (OB6 SREC) • FNMOC Wave Watch Model Guidance (OB6 SREC) • ECMWF model • All 12 km Eta products CONUS & AK upgraded to 10 km WRF (FY07/08) • Require OSIP and lack of resources • SCAN Auto-Nowcaster • 4DStorm Cell Investigator

7. OB7 StatusSummary of Changes • Additional tasks added • OB6 Castoffs • Snowfall Accumulation • Polar Visible and IR Imagery • Display Subset of GFE parameters on D2D • Additional frame capability • Radar task substitution for Super Resolution 88D base products (approved by SREC) • Delayed to Build 9 • Not considered in planning for OB7, assumed in OB6 (approved by SREC) • Cloud Amount DPI (OB6 SREC) • From OSIP • LAMP Centrally produced • Maintain current capability • FXNET • Left off list, bookkeeping error

8. OB7 Development Allocations Proposed OB7 Actual OB7

9. OB7 Contents • Radar • Snowfall Accumulation (OB6) • Add products to TDWR SPG • candidates are: composite reflectivity (CZ and/or ULR), VAD wind profile (VWP), Vertically Integrated Liquid (VIL) • Send environmental data (RUC) from AWIPS to RPG (1) • Generate products for non-associated user requests (2) • Mesoscale Detection Algorithm (3) • DVL low value/linear scale change (4) • RDA/SZ-2 Range Unfolding VCPs (5) • Plan View Display of VWP (6) • All Tilts Navigation Improvements (7) • Partial implementation • Satellite • Polar Microwave Products (OB6 SREC) • Cloud Amount DPI (OB6 SREC) • Polar Visible and IR Imagery (OB6)

10. OB7 Contents • Model data • GFS BUFR Sounding Data (OB6 SREC) • Full suite of SREF products for CONUS and Alaska • All 20 km RUC products upgraded to 13 km • OPC and TAFB Offshore Gridded Significant Wave Height • Display Subset of GFE parameters on D2D (OB6 ) • LAMP Centrally produced • Analysis of Record • Gridded MOS • Hydrology • Operational Implementation of Distributed Hydrologic Modeling • Includes display on D2D • WHFS HydroView Enhancement to Replace “Mapper” • Integration of RFC QPE tools into a common National System

11. OB7 Contents • Decision Assistance • SCAN Enhancements • SAFESEAS Enhancements • Fog Monitor • FFMP Enhancements • LSR Enhancements • Guardian (OB6 SREC) • System for Nowcasting of Winter Weather (SNOW) (OB6 SREC) • Aviation Forecast Preparation System (AVNFPS)

12. OB7 Contents • GFE • Add the capability to use NCDC climatological data in GFE for display, smart tools, and formatters • Add the capability to use OPC and TAFB Offshore Gridded Significant Wave Height Forecasts in GFE • Add the capability to use Gridded MOS in GFE for display, smart tools, and formatters • GFE/GHG Local Formatter Enhancements • Smart Tool Baseline Enhancements • Directive Changes (NWSI 10-503) • GFE/GHG Level II Support • NWR • Develop and incorporation of a new Universal Formatter (UFOR) for CRS • Partial capability provided by NWRWAVES • NDFD • NDFD grid sub sectors for RFCs via AWIPS • Extend geographic domain of NDFD products to cover Offshore and High Seas domain • New NDFD elements • TPC’s Gridded Probabilistic Winds • OPC and TAFB Offshore Gridded Significant Wave Height Forecasts

13. OB7 Contents • Infrastructure • Decommission DS/Employ Dx3, Dx4 • Includes replacement of dial-out capability • COTS Upgrades (e.g., gcc compiler) • Convert RFC Archiver Database and Software to PostgreSQL • IFPS • Postgres Conversion, Service Backup, Remove Obsolete code • GFE/GHG Infrastructure • Regimes, Auto ISC Consistency, Science Integrity • Decommission WWA

14. OB7 Contents • Infrastructure • Additional frame capability (OB6) • Directive Changes • VTEC RiverPro, Test/Practice Mode • FSL RPUs • Intelligent Purger improvements • Technology Transfer • (Informix, Decoding, Display, Dissemination, Support Software, NWSSPOT, Climate, HWR, IFPS, LSR, GRIB2 Decoder) • FxNET • New Chat Server Client • Replace MDL GRIB2 decoder with NCEP GRIB2 decoder • DRs from previous releases • FSL (40), GFE (TBD), MDL (40), SEC (80), OHD (37)

15. Handling Small Enhancements • What’s a small enhancement? • Minor SW changes, enhancements, or additions • Information based assumption that these will require low level of effort • Items not appropriate to have a Business Case • Items not appropriate for Exploratory Research Evaluation

16. Handling Small Enhancements • What Info is Needed? • Information needed to do an analysis to determine the level of effort/risk required • OSIP Stage 1, SON and Project Plan • OSIP Stage 2, ConOps / ORD and Updated Project Plan • If this is a small enhancement the amount of info to be documented should be minimal, but should be concise and understood both scientifically and technically.

17. Handling Small Enhancements • When are items forwarded to AWIPS SREC • Items can be submitted to the AWIPS SREC when the information needed to do analysis is available and involved parties agree info is understood • This can happen at Gate 1 or 2 • The info needed stays the same • If redirected to AWIPS SREC for analysis and low level of effort is determined, prioritization and placement into a release will occur • Items identified as a medium or high risk/level of effort will continue with Stage 2 of OSIP

18. Handling Small Enhancements • The request will be reviewed by SEC and evaluated based on the following criteria • No Exploratory Research Evaluation required • No security impacts • Data is less than 50 mbytes/hr and familiar (low risk) data stream • Communications traffic volume will not impact terrestrial WAN or SBN • Software development effort to design, develop, test and implement is less than 2 months • Utilization of CPU, RAM, disk I/O, LAN network I/O and disk storage likely to increase less than 1% of total available on target platform • No direct cost for project implementation, any recurring cost, logistics or maintenance cost and no anticipated future replacement or upgrade cost. Only cost is the development, testing and deployment. • Operational Requirements are complete • Only AWIPS development and integration resources are required • No impact on existing critical interfaces • Items that meet this criteria will be determined to be low level of effort and risk tasks.

19. Relationship to other Processes Overview PPBES G4 G1 G3 G2 Applied Research & Analysis Collection & Validation Deploy, Maintain, & Assess Concept Exploration & Definition Operational Development SON@noaa.gov Bright Idea, Need Identified, Customer Request, Mandate Change Management CCB / SREC NCEP’s Transition Process AWTT Aviation Process nwsrc@noaa.gov Request for Change “Major Projects” are elevated to NOAA’s Requirements Management Process at appropriate Key decision points

20. New Task Requests • New Task requested since S&T Approval not included into OB7 • Time Zone Change for multiple time zones per NWS Directive 10-1701 (OCWWS – White) • SPC’s Convective Outlook (NCEP – Gordon) • Simulated Reflectivity from WRF (NCEP – Gordon) • GOES Low Cloud Base Product (OCWWS – Graf) • D2D: Allow user ability to save a multiple pane setup as a single procedure (ER – Dipasquale) • Option on D2D to allow isopleth interval to be set during zooming (AR – Mieczynski) • New High Resolution Global SST analysis (ER – Waldstreicher) • Climate preliminary F6 (ER – Waldstreicher) • These task should be submitted to OSIP • Example of Simulated Reflectivity from WRF is attached • SON and CONOPS

21. Next Meeting Agenda • Meeting to be held on November 22 at 2:30pm EDT • OB7 Status • Planning for OB8