NOAA N4RT Readiness Review - Phase 1 SDR Products

NetCDF4 Reformatting Toolkit (N4RT): BUFR and GRIB2 TailoringAlgorithm Readiness Review (ARR) for Phase 1 SDR Products May 2, 2012 Prepared By: Tom King1 and Yi Song1 1 Riverside 2 NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

N4RT ARR • Demonstrate the toolkit readiness for NDE, OSPO, and data users. This requires the following: • Identify any new requirements updated since TRR and show that they’ve been captured in the Requirement Allocation Document (RAD) and correctly implemented in the software and/or products. • Identify any bug fixes since TRR. • Show the results of any new unit tests conducted since TRR. • Show that the N4RT delivery items (software, documentation, test data) are present and can fully meet the requirements described in DAP Document. • Review the status of all the open review items, close any remaining risks, and identify any new risks.

Review Agenda

Review Outline • Introduction • TRR Report • Updated Requirements • Phase 1 Software Architecture • Software Readiness • Risk Summary • Summary and Conclusions

Section 1 – Introduction Presented by Tom King NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

JTA and IJPS • JTA – Joint Transition Activities • The JTA agreement was signed in 2003. It was a replacement of the Initial Joint Polar-Orbiting Operational Satellite System (IJPS) agreement and was initially designed to cover MetOp-C and the NPP mission. • IJPS started with NOAA-N and covers up through MetOp-B. JTA and IJPS are cooperative efforts between NOAA and EUMETSAT to provide and improve the operational meteorological and environmental forecasting and global climate monitoring services worldwide. • JTA has since been updated to include JPSS (J1 and J3).

NPP/JPSS • NPP and JPSS, a joint NOAA/NASA effort, is the next series of polar-orbiting satellites dedicated to among other things, operational meteorology. The objective of the JPSS mission is to ensure continuity, improvement and availability of operational observations from an afternoon polar orbit (13:30 pm). • Meteorological/Climatological Instrument packages on NPP/JPSS: • CrIS, ATMS, VIIRS, OMPS, CERES • NPP launched October 28, 2011 and is the first of 3 satellites.

Project BackgroundNDE • Disseminate NPP/JPSS Data Records to customers. • Generate and disseminate tailored NPP/JPSS Data Records (versions of NPP/JPSS Data Records in previously agreed alternative formats and views). • Generate and disseminate NOAA-unique products (augmented environmental products constructed from NPP/JPSS Data Records). • Deliver NOAA-unique products, product processing elements, and associated metadata to CLASS for long-term archiving. • Provide services to customers, including NDE product training, product enhancement, and implementation support across NOAA. • Provide software for NPP/JPSS Data Record format translation and other data manipulations.

N4RT Project Objectives • To build a software package that will tailor JPSS and NDE products from NetCDF4 into BUFR and GRIB2 formats in support of NDE’s overall tailoring efforts. • The NetCDF4 Reformatting Toolkit (N4RT) must be designed so it can easily be modified/expanded to incorporate the tailoring of new products. • Flexible • Extendable • The software must be able run within the NDE system architecture and operate within the NDE functional guidelines. • Output product formats and content must meet the needs of NOAA customers.

N4RT Project Objectives Phase 1-3 Products • Phase 1 SDR • CrIS Radiances (BUFR) • ATMS Radiances (BUFR) • VIIRS Radiances (BUFR) • Sea Surface Temperature from IDPS (BUFR) • Phase 1 EDR • Sea Surface Temperature from ACSPO (BUFR) • Aerosol Optical Thickness (BUFR) • Nadir Profile and Total Column Ozone (BUFR) • Phase 2 EDR • Polar Winds (BUFR) • Green Vegetation Fraction (GRIB2) • Phase 3 EDR • OMPS Limb Profiles (BUFR) • AVHRR, GOES, VIIRS Cloud Products (GRIB2)

Rationale For Adding IDPS SST to the First Delivery • EUMETSAT members, specifically ECMWF and UK Met, have requested a VIIRS SST because of the failure of ENVISAT/MERIS. They would like receive these data via EUMETSAT. • Therefore, we have decided to deliver the capability to tailor the NPP IDPS-produced VIIRS SST product in BUFR in the Phase 1 SDR delivery and the ACSPO SST in the next. • The reason for this: • End users have not yet decoded and approved ACSPO SST sample BUFR files whereas they have decoded and approved the IDPS-produced SST. • ACSPO data are not currently produced/available in NDE. The projected availability is ~2 months. VIIRS IDPS SST are produced now in IDPS. • P72 HDF5 format data are available (in official format and following NPP file name patterns) so we are able to test reformatting capability now. It’s not clear that ACSPO netCDF4 file contents and naming are yet finalized.

Project Stakeholders • IPT Lead: Walter Wolf (STAR) • PAL and IPT Backup Lead: AK Sharma (OSPO) • NESDIS team: • STAR: Walter Wolf, Jaime Daniels, Yi Song, Tom King, Kexin Zhang, Larisa Koval • NDE: Jim Silva, GeofGoodrum, Richard Sikorski, Kevin Berberich • OSPO: Dave Benner, AK Sharma, Ricky Irving • OSD: Tom Schott • User team • Lead: Jim Heil (NWS), Stephen Lord (NWS/NCEP/EMC), John Derber (NWS/NCEP/EMC), Jeff Ator (NWS/NCEP/NCO), Lars Peter-Riishojgaardand Jim Yoe (JCSDA), Simon Elliott (EUMETSAT), Tony McNally (ECMWF), Fiona Hilton (UK-Met) • Others: International NWP users, NWP FOs, Climate Users • Product Oversight Panel: ZPOP, EPOP, ICAPOP, CAL/NAVPOP

Customers and Users • U.S. Users: • NCEP/JCSDA (Jim Jung/Dennis Keyser) • GMAO (Will McCarty) • NRL/FNMOC (Ben Ruston) • International Users: • EUMETSAT (Simon Elliott) • UK Met Office (Nigel Atkinson) • ECMWF (Tony McNally) • DWD (Reinhold Hess) • Meteo-France (LydieLavanant) • Plus other EU member states • CMC (Louis Garand) • EC (Sylvain Heilliette) • JMA (Hidehiko Murata) • BOM (John Le Marshall)

Plan of Operations – Phase 1 Year 1 – Design and Development Evaluate the requirements; work with NDE Discuss with the current developers of similar translators to determine what is required in their output files Design the NetCDF4 reformatting toolkit; distribute to OSPO and NDE for review Conduct PDR Create generic NetCDF4 readers and writers Develop BUFR tables and GRIB formats with the product teams for Phase 1 products Work with NDE to determine the interface between the SDR and EDR NPP products and the reformatter Conduct CDR

Plan of Operations – Phase 1 Year 2 –Transition to Pre-Operations of Phase 1 Products Set up infrastructure to implement the readers and writers for the data formats; work with NDE to determine the interface to the data handling system; make available to OSPO for review Implement BUFR tables and GRIB formats for the Phase 1 products on the NDE hardware; work with NDE and OSPO to evaluate the implementation Conduct Test Readiness Review for Phase 1 products Transition Phase 1 product reformatters to pre-operational system on the NDE hardware Test system within the NDE environment Prepare Documentation Conduct Code Review for Phase 1 products Year 3 – Transition to Operations of Phase 1 Products Evaluate with NDE and OSPO the implementation of the Reformatter within the NDE data handling system Conduct Algorithm Readiness Reviews (separate reviews for Phase 1 SDR and EDR products) Transition pre-operational Phase 1 product reformatting system to operations

Plan of Operations – Phase 2 Year 1 – Design and Development Evaluate the requirements; work with NDE Discuss with the current developers of similar translators to determine what is required in their output files Develop BUFR tables and GRIB formats with the product teams for Phase 2 products Implement BUFR tables and GRIB formats for the Phase 2 products on the NDE hardware Work with NDE and OSPO to evaluate the implementation 16

Plan of Operations – Phase 2 Year 2 –Transition to Pre-Operations of Phase 2 Products Conduct Test Readiness Review for Phase 2 products Transition Phase 2 product reformatters to pre-operational system on the NDE hardware Test system within the NDE environment Prepare Documentation Conduct Code Review for Phase 2 products Year 3 – Transition to Operations of Phase 2 Products Evaluate with NDE and OSPO the implementation of the Reformatter within the NDE data handling system Conduct Algorithm Readiness Review for Phase 2 products Transition pre-operational Phase 2 product reformatting system to operations 17

Plan of Operations – Phase 3 Year 1 – Design and Development Evaluate the requirements; work with OSPO Discuss with the current developers of similar translators to determine what is required in their output files Develop BUFR tables and GRIB formats with the product teams for Phase 3 products Year 2 –Transition to Pre-Operations of Phase 3 Products Implement BUFR tables and GRIB formats for the Phase 3 products on the OPSO hardware; work with OSPO to evaluate the implementation Conduct Test Readiness Review for Phase 3 products Transition Phase 3 product reformatters to pre-operational system on the OSPO hardware Test system within the OPSO environment Prepare Documentation Conduct Code Review for Phase 3 products Evaluate with OSPO the implementation of the Reformatter within the OSPO data handling system Conduct Algorithm Readiness Review for Phase 3 products Transition pre-operational Phase 3 product reformatting system to operations 18

Project Timeline (1) PDR 04/28/2009 CDR 09/29/2009

Project Timeline (2) TRR 10/25/2011 ARR 05/02/2012 DAP 1 Delivery 05/04/2012 SCR TBD

Project Timeline (3) TRR 06/26/2012 SCR 07/03/2012 ARR 09/20/2012 DAP 2 Delivery 09/24/2012

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N4RT ARR Entry Criteria • TRR Report (Review Item Disposition) http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/spb/iosspdt/qadocs/N4RT_ARR/N4RT_TRR_Review_Item_Disposition.xlsx • PDR Risks and Actions • CDR Risks and Actions • TRR Risks and Actions • Updated TRR Presentation http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/spb/iosspdt/qadocs/N4RT_ARR/N4RT_TRR_Phase1_SDR_Products.pptx • Updated Requirements Allocation Document http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/spb/iosspdt/qadocs/N4RT_ARR/N4RT_RAD_v1.3.docx • ARR Presentation http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/spb/iosspdt/qadocs/N4RT_ARR/N4RT_ARD_Phase1_SDR_Products.pptx • N4RT DAP is ready at: http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/spb/iosspdt/qadocs/N4RT_ARR/ N4RT_Phase1_SDR_v1-0_20120502.tar.gz

N4RT TRR Exit Criteria • Algorithm Readiness Review Report • The ARR Report (ARRR), a standard artifact of the STAR Enterprise Process Lifecycle (EPL), will be compiled after the ARR • The report will contain: • Review Item Disposition containing all risks, actions and comments • Updated ARR presentation

Section 2 – TRR Review Report: Issues and Actions Presented by Tom King Riverside

TRR Report • The N4RT TRR Report is available as the Review Item Disposition spreadsheet at: http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/spb/iosspdt/qadocs/N4RT_ARR/N4RT_TRR_Review_Item_Disposition.xlsx • The TRR Report covers the following: • Open PDR Risks and Actions • Open CDR Risks and Actions • TRR Risks and Actions • Risks closed in previous reviews are not shown here, but are located in the RID. • Risks shown here that are marked as “closed” will be closed with the approval of this review. For “open” risks, an anticipated closure date is provided.

Open PDR Review Items

PDR Risk • Risk 3: There are small variations in the types of platforms and the versions of the compilers • Assessment: Low • Impact: May obtain different results using different compilers. • Likelihood:Low • Mitigation: Reformatting Toolkit developers will work with NDE during system tests in the integration and production phase to ensure that those results match the results from the unit tests. The NDE Build Content Reviews and delivery of DAP prototypes have helped to reduce this risk in development. • Status:Open • Closure Date: June 4, 2012

PDR Risk • Risk 4: Data format translation may involve some unit conversion and possible reduction of precision (significant digits) • Assessment: Low • Impact: Any modification of the data from its original form may not be apparent to the user. • Likelihood: Low • Mitigation: Document data manipulations in the NDE Delivered Algorithm Package (in place of ATBD). This will be done in the System Maintenance Manual (SMM). • Status:Closed

PDR Risk • Risk 6: Risk on GVF. Have not yet demonstrated ability to encode GRIB2 files. • Assessment: Moderate • Impact: Failure to meet the requirement to have demonstrated GRIB2 tailoring capability. • Likelihood: Low • Mitigation: GVF will need to be in GRIB2 format, but that’s something that will not be a capability of the toolkit until Phase 2. However, the capability to generate GRIB will be demonstrated at the Phase 1 EDR products TRR scheduled for 6/26/2012. • Status:Open • Closure Date: June 26, 2012

Open CDR Review Items

CDR Risk • Risk 18: ESPC may not have the BUFR expertise to maintain the toolkit. • Assessment: Low • Impact:OSPO may not be able to maintain the toolkit in the future. • Likelihood: Low • Mitigation: OSPO is getting FY12 funding to support the transition and maintenance from NDE on the OSPO side. • Status:Closed

Open TRR Review Items

TRR Risk • Risk 22: NDE needs to modify their contract to support SPSRB documentation. • Assessment: Low • Impact:OSPO will not have a documented system from NDE • Likelihood:Moderate • Mitigation: GeofGoodrum is working to modify the NDE contract to fund documentation. • Status:Open • Closure Date: Apr. 2013 (May be able to close this sooner – review this again at the Phase 1 EDR TRR)

Summary • There are 5 risks: • 3 from PDR • 1 from CDR • 1 from TRR • We recommend closing: • 1 of the PDR risks. • 1 of the CDR risks. • 0 of the TRR risks • 3 risks will remain open. For these risks we have supplied anticipated closure dates.

Section 3 – Updated Requirements Presented by Tom King Riverside

Requirements Overview • All N4RT requirements are documented in the RAD: http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/spb/iosspdt/qadocs/N4RT_ARR/N4RT_RAD_v1.3.docx • All the requirements for Phase 1 and 2 are contained in this section. However, only new or modified requirements that have changed since TRR will be presented. • Text highlighted • Yellow indicate basic requirements • Green indicates new, modified • Gray indicates removed requirements since CDR.

Phase I User-to-STAR Mapping

Requirement 1.0 • Requirement 1.0: STAR shall deliver to NDE a reformatting toolkit capable of translating NESDIS NetCDF4 data products into NCEP-accepted data formats (i.e., BUFR and/or GRIB2).

Requirement 1.0 • Requirement 1.1: The toolkit shall be capable of reformatting the NPP tailoring prioritized phase 1 product list. • Requirement 1.2: The toolkit shall provide its capabilities such that it may be run automatically within an operational system, especially within the NDE environment. • Requirement 1.2.1: The Toolkit shall compile and run on the NDE IBM AIX P5, P6, and P7 series hardware. • Requirement 1.2.2: The Toolkit shall be able interact with the NDE Data Handling System (DHS). • Requirement 1.2.2.1: The Toolkit shall be able to read a Production Control File (PCF). • Requirement 1.2.2.2: The Toolkit shall handle and return errors according to NDE/STAR standard codes. • Requirement 1.2.2.3: The Toolkit shall be able to write a (Product Status File) PSF.

Requirement 1.0 • Requirement 1.3: The toolkit shall consist of modular components that can be tested independently and data should be stored in allocatable structures. • Requirement 1.3.1: The code shall consist of a single compiled program that parses arguments and logically assigns tasks to a family of hierarchically structured tailoring subroutines. • Requirement 1.4: STAR shall include one update to the reformatting toolkit within its initial project plan. • Requirement 1.5: STAR shall propose additional updates to the reformatting toolkit at a future Annual Review for Satellite Product Development that will address the NDE Phase 2 products. • Requirement 1.6: STAR shall use the standard set of NCEP software libraries for BUFR and GRIB2 in the reformatting toolkit.

Requirement 1.0 • Requirement 1.7: STAR shall update the reformatting toolkit when NCEP updates its BUFR and GRIB2 libraries. • Requirement 1.7.1: Updates shall be made when there are updates to the versions of the NetCDF4 library being used by NDE. • Requirement 1.8: STAR shall coordinate with the NDE Project before proposing any enhancements to add other standard format translations to the toolkit at the Annual Review for Satellite Product Development. • Requirement 1.9: The output from the toolkit shall be compared with the input to verify that the conversion was performed correctly. • Requirement 1.10: The translation toolkit shall convert from the new format back into NetCDF4. • Requirement 1.11: The reformatting software shall log each transaction’s control information, including: the calling application, the type of transaction requested, the start and end times, and completion status codes.

Requirement 1.0 • Requirement 1.11.1: The Reformatting Toolkit software shall generate run logs (contain human-readable messaging and time stamps) and return NDE/STAR standard (agreed upon) error codes to the DHS. • Requirement 1.12: Applications running under either Linux or AIX Operating Systems shall be able to provide the reformatting toolkit data and be able to accept the data from the toolkit for further processing (e.g., dissemination). • Requirement 1.13: The toolkit parameters (e.g., how to use the service) shall be well documented. • Requirement 1.13.1: Reformatting Toolkit Developers shall provide documentation in the form of a tailored Delivered Algorithm Package (DAP) whose name and contents are defined in the NDE document entitled “Algorithm Delivery Standards, Integration, and Test V1.3”. • Requirement 1.13.2: The DAP shall contain the following two SPSRB documents: the SMM (System Maintenance Manual) and the EUM (External Users Manual) as well as the Test Readiness Document. • Requirement 14.1: The messages provided by the toolkit in the event of failure to perform a requested service shall be comprehensible by untrained operators.

Requirement 1.0 • Requirement 1.14.1: Reformatting Toolkit shall use the standard set of error return codes developed by NDE for code running within the DHS. • Requirement 1.15: The messages provided by the toolkit in the event of failure to perform a requested service shall include diagnostic details needed for troubleshooting. • Requirement 1.15.1: All messaging shall be directed to a run log file. These messages shall be documented in the Reformatting Toolkit tailored DAP. • Requirement 1.16: STAR shall coordinate development of the reformatting toolkit with the NDE contractors and assist the NDE contractors with the integration of the toolkit within each of the environments of the NDE processing system. • Requirement 1.17: Toolkit code shall adhere to the SPSRB coding standards. • Requirement 1.18: Performance shall be measured on a product level. • Requirement 1.19: The Toolkit shall output BUFR and GRIB2 files whose names adhere to the NDE file naming convention in “Algorithm Delivery Standards, Integration, and Test V1.3”.

Requirement 2.0 • Requirement 2.0: STAR shall provide monthly project status reports to OSPO and OSD.

NOAA N4RT Readiness Review - Phase 1 SDR Products