Action Item 2015-1.2

NCEP Central Operations

4-5 November 2015COPC – Fall 2015

• NCO COOP• Core Competencies/Functions• Products Sent/Received from OPCs• NWSTG• NCO College Park

• Product Loss Impacts• Questions

OUTLINE

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NCEP Central Operations COOP

• NCO College Park 24x7 Staff– Short-term COOP – Aviation Weather Center until Staff arrives in Reston, VA – Long-term COOP – Boulder, CO

• NCO Silver Spring 24x7 Staff– Short-term COOP – move to the 6th floor and use MiFis and Cell Phones in the event of loss of building

LAN or VOIP phone service– Goal would be for shift workers to take their laptops out of the building and remotely monitor the

systems

• NWSTG– Current – Silver Spring & Fairmont (Fairmont is not a 100% backup)– By FY17Q1 – All applications will be migrated/hosted on the IDP Systems

• Integrated Dissemination Program System (IDP)– Geographically diverse back up systems in College Park & Boulder (Mar 2016)

• WCOSS– Geographically diverse back up systems in Reston and Orlando

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COPC Related Core Competencies/ Functions

• Execute the NCEP operational model suite– Create climate, weather, ocean and environmental hazard products

• Manage improvements to the NCEP model suite– Support the research, development, and transition of new or enhanced

models to operations

• Manage and monitor the flow of data and products– To and from the NCEP centers, NWS offices, DoD, partners, and customers

• Develop and maintain meteorological software– Used by the NCEP Centers to create forecaster generated products

• Supports the Global Distribution of Weather Messages– Used by NOAA, DoD, partners, customers, and world-wide meteorological

organizations in support of WMO world-wide data exchange structure

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NCEP’s Network

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NCO Silver Spring (NWSTG) Products Sent to and Received from OPCs

OPC Send ReceiveFNMOC Variety of switched data available

on the FTP server both Domestic and International, GRIB2 Ensemble, NPOESS

FNMOC.OCN and FNMOC GRIB2 files

NAVO Oceanographic data types (buoy, platform, etc) with WMO headers both Domestic and International

Buoy data, Arctic CAP model data, GRIB2 Ensemble Data, HYCOM data files, S-NPP, Altimetry derived products,

557 Wx Wing

GRIB2 Ensemble data and NHEM Ensemble Data. Send WMO Header data such as METAR, SPECI, TAF, and PIREPs on the socket feed.

Military METAR, SPECI, TAF, and PIREPs with WMO Headers via the socket feed

NESDIS Platform and buoy data (DAPS), ATOVS, SST, TBUS, HD winds, BUFR HD Winds, Climate Reference Network, Global Multi-sensor Automated Snow/Ice Map Data, SSMI Sounder Data

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NCO College Park Products Sent to and Received from OPCs

OPC Send ReceiveFNMOC 1 Deg NAVEGEM GRIB1, 1 Deg GRIB2 FNMOC

Ensembles (available on NOMADS), 1 Deg FNMOC GRIB1 Wave, and 1 Deg GRIB2 Ocean Ensemble (input to NFCENS)

NAVO Global Coastal Ocean (NCOM) relocatable used by OPC and available on NOMADS, HYCOM, HYCOM Artic for OPC/EMC, HYCOM Restart

557 Wx Wing CONUS 4km Ensemble, NHem 20km Ensemble, Global 1 degree Ensemble

NESDIS Model Data & Observations(GFS, GDAS, OMB sea ice, hrly obs, CPCs QMORPH, RTG SST, NAM, CDAS, TC Fix)

OHC, TPW, MHS Daily Rainfall, ASCAT, Blended Polar SST, McIDAS imagery, OMI, Satellite Ingest data for Models(Critical data: aerosols, AIRS, GOES IR, GOES SST, NPP, OZONE, GOES Radiances and Sounder Radiances, SMI Radiances, TOVS)

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Product Loss Impacts

• FNMOC – loss of NAVGEM, FNMOC ensembles and wave models– Global Wave Ensemble would be degraded immediately

• NAVOCEANO– Global RTOFS would be degraded after 2 days– loss of altimetry data, HYCOM, buoy observations, and S-NPP

• 557th WW– Loss of COOP site for AWC and SPC– Loss of military observations and ensemble model output

• NESDIS– NESDIS NSOF and STAR – significant impact if either Center is offline– Satellite Data (GOES/POES) ~ billions observations received per day and 450 million

observations assimilated– Loss of satellite data > 24 hours will degrade models

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Questions?

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