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Federal AviationAdministrationNextGen Weather

Evaluation Capabilities (NWEC) Environment

National Weather Service

Tri Nguyen, AJP-6840

January 7, 2010

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Scope

• Provide an infrastructure to support the proof of concept and evaluations of the 4-D Weather Data Cube, NWP Prototype and Sensor Optimization efforts

• Provide an environment to demonstrate, test and evaluate new and enhanced weather products and standards (RTO)

• Provide record, playback and dissemination capabilities for NextGen development and assessment activities

• Support other NNEW/RWI/WTIC/AWRP activities as needed

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• Reconfigurable Environment to support activities

• Utilize common software tools for better collaboration among organizations

• Configuration managed– Software applications– Computer hardware – Cables and interfaces

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FY10 Planned activities

• Support software development– NNEW Service Adapters– Record/Playback Tool– NWP Prototype

• Host NNEW FY10 IT Demo• Telecommunications network expansion

– FTI R&D Enclave– NOAAnet– Internet II

• Support WHJTC outreach– Misc lab tours (e.g., Media, Congress, Public Relations)

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Recent Accomplishments

• Evaluations– CoSPA User Evaluation

• Demonstrations– NNEW IT Demos

• Software Development– Data Archive/ Playback Capability

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Weather Data to NWEC

• NOAAPort – GRID Products (RUC, GFS, NAM, UKMET, etc.)– GOES Satellite Imagery– NEXRAD Level 3– TDWR– NLDN

• NOAA– All GOES Satellite Imagery

• SeaSpace Corp (in progress)– GOES East Satellite Imagery– GOES West Satellite Imagery

• NEXRAD RPG– NEXRAD Level 3 data

• University of Oklahoma (in progress)– NEXRAD Level 2 data

• WSI– NowRAD (Radar Mosaic)

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Weather Data to NWEC (cont.)

• NSSL– 3D Radar Mosaic

• MADIS– Surface Observations

• UCAR– Alphanumeric Products (Airmets, Sigmets, etc)

• RASP– One Minute Observation– Lightning

• WARP / WINS– GOES Satellite Images– NEXRAD Mosaic– GRID Products (RUC, GFS, UKMET, etc)– Alphanumeric Products (METAR, PIREP, etc)

• Other data to the NWEC Lab– ADS-B flight tracks– ETMS flight tracks

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NWEC Infrastructure

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FTI R&D EnclaveMIT/LL

NAS Ops IP Network

NASSystem A

R&D GTWY

NextGenR&D Transport

Network

R&D GTWY

R&D GTWY

DaytonaSouth Florida

NextGenInfrastructure

DallasMidwest

NextGen MANInfrastructure

Domain X - ARTP

Domain Y - NIEC

ADS-BData

IAP

NCAR NextGen R&D Enclave

NextGenPartners

NextGenPartners

Domain J

Domain K

Domain A

Domain B

FESG(NAS test)

Mission Support Network

NASSystem C

NASSystem CNAS

System B

Mission SupportSystem X

Mission SupportSystem Z

MSESG(MS)

NESG(NAS)

NAS TestbedEnvironment

ConsortiumAccess

Subnetwork

NOAAnet

NOAA

WJHTCNextGen MANInfrastructure

Domain Z - LabNet

Internet 2

Internet

Domain W - NWEC

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Tools and Simulation Capabilities

• Acquired and/or developed software– NEXRAD RPG Simulator– DSR Simulator (wx display)– NEXIS Simulator– WNUR Tool– WARP/WINS Pub/Sub Client– iTKO Lisa Tool– ArcGIS

• NIEC Lab Interface

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Backup slides

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Acronyms • ADS-B Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast • AWRP Aviation Weather Research Program• CoSPA Consolidated Storm Prediction for Aviation• DoD Department of Defense• DSR Display System Replacement• ETMS Enhanced Traffic Management System • FAA Federal Aviation Administration• FTI FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure• IT Information Technology• MADIS Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System • MAN Metropolitan Area Network• NEXIS NEXRAD Interface System• NEXRAD Next-Generation Radar• NIEC NextGen Integration Evaluation Capabilities• NNEW NextGen Network Enabled Weather• NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration• NSSL National Severe Storms Laboratory• NWEC NextGen Weather Evaluation Capabilities• NWP NextGen Weather Processor• NWS National Weather Service• R&D Research and Development• RASP Regional ADAS Service Processor• RPG Radar Product Generator• RTO Research To Operations• RWI Reduced Weather Impact• UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research • WARP Weather and Radar Processor• WINS Weather Information Network Server• WNUR WSR-88D / NEXRAD Unicast Receiver • WTIC Weather Technologies in the Cockpit