integrated hazard information services workshop october 27-29 boulder, co

Integrated Hazard Information Services

Workshop

October 27-29 Boulder, Co

ConceptualDevelopment

Prototyping Implementation Testing and Evaluation

OperationalUse

Roles

Researcher/Scientist

Developer

Forecaster

Social Scientist

Research to Operations

Iteration/feedback

PartnerPartner Partner PartnerPartnerPartner

Workshop Goals

• WARNINGS are relative to IMPACTS

• IMPACTS are relative to the SITUATION

Workshop Goals

• To understand what INFORMATION is needed and in what FORMS to aid all those who need to make DECISIONS.

• To apply the STRAWMAN design to a set of scenarios to yield refined requirements.

• To foster social learning with the FULL SPECTRUM of stakeholders.

Digital Database Polygons, Points,

Hazard and Sensible Weather GridsGIS Information

Graphical products

Recommender(when scientifically

feasible)

ForecasterEdits

Workspace

METEOROLOGY/HYDROLOGY PRODUCTS

ObservationsModels

GuidanceProduct

Formatters

Product DatabaseForecaster Added information – Impacts,

Calls to ActionText Products/ CAP Info

VTEC, Active TableSpotter information

Weather Interpreter/

PartnersEmergency Mgrs

Private SectorGIS ApplicationsAviation Sector?

Workspace Official

Forecaster Publishes to Official

CollaborationsAmong all stakeholders

Partners and ForecastersInternal (within forecast office)

External (across forecast offices)Twitter, IM

Forecaster ToolsCustomized GUI's

to View / Edit Databases

Partner ToolsMonitors

GUI'sQuery Tools

FPUS51 KLWX 090809ZFPLWXZONE FORECAST PRODUCTNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC409 AM EDT WED SEP 9 2009MDZ003-092300-WASHINGTON-INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HAGERSTOWN409 AM EDT WED SEP 9 2009.TODAY...MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN. HIGHS INTHE MID 70S. NORTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH. .TONIGHT...CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN. LOWS IN THEUPPER 50S. NORTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH. .THURSDAY...MOSTLY CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS IN THE MORNING...THENRAIN LIKELY IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S. NORTH WINDS10 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF RAIN 60 PERCENT. $$

- Data Layers NWS Warnings Population Density Schools

22 Sept 24 Sept 25 Sept23 Sept

Tornado Warning

Population Density

Schools

Spatial – Zoom In/Out

Temporal – Zoom In/Out

- Analysis / Products +Generate Products +Tools (e.g. how many affected?. How many school children affected?)

...

...

Output Windows

Breakout One – Wish Lists• Forecasters

– Integrated Hazard Creation Tool with Recommender– Legacy and new products– Improved and standardized relationships with Partners– Seamless backup

• Partners

– More interaction with forecasters and social scientists– Input into service design– Customized and consistent products– Impact-based information

Breakout Two – Process

• Interaction between all stakeholders

– Before, during, and after event

– Live interaction to get questions answered

– Service Backup to support this interaction as well as products

– Considerations at different temporal scales – 4-6 days prior, 2-3 days prior, day before, day of...

Breakout Three – Database

• Contents– “Threat in motion” -- Hazard information seamless

in space and time– Probabilistic and Impact information– Hazard attributes – spotter reports, calls to action– GIS, situational awareness information

• Access– Both “push” and “pull” customized products– Input and output by all stakeholders

• Framework approach

Next Step Plans

• Implementation Plan• Partner Collaboration Plan• Social Science Collaboration Plan• Refined Requirements submission to PPBES

FPUS51 KLWX 090809ZFPLWXZONE FORECAST PRODUCTNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC409 AM EDT WED SEP 9 2009MDZ003-092300-WASHINGTON-INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HAGERSTOWN409 AM EDT WED SEP 9 2009.TODAY...MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN. HIGHS INTHE MID 70S. NORTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH. .TONIGHT...CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN. LOWS IN THEUPPER 50S. NORTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH. .THURSDAY...MOSTLY CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS IN THE MORNING...THENRAIN LIKELY IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S. NORTH WINDS10 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF RAIN 60 PERCENT. $$

- Data Layers NWS Warnings Population Density Schools

22 Sept 24 Sept 25 Sept23 Sept

Tornado Warning

Population Density

Schools

Spatial – Zoom In/Out

Temporal – Zoom In/Out

- Analysis / Products +Generate Products +Tools (e.g. how many affected?. How many school children affected?)

...

...

Output Windows

Build-your-own View

• Unifying WarnGen, GHG, RiverPro does NOT mean crowding everything onto one display at the same time

• Instead – we envision the user (forecaster or partner) building customized Views from the same tool box

– With the ability to display multiple Views at the same time

– And Save and Recall named Views

Ability to Extend and Customize

• Extendable Framework– Complex rules implemented in a scripting language

(e.g. Like Smart Tools and/or iTools)

• Examples:– Customized products for decision makers– Specialized Dialogs for hazard attributes– Point and Areal Flood Warning need to be

disseminated in pairs

Data Repositories(IRIS, GIS, etc.)

Hazard Information Services

Temporal – Zoom In/Out

Display Interface

Services

Hazard Information ServicesStrawman Implementation Approach

• Hazard Information Services are built to fulfill the requirements for forecaster tools and partner needs.

• They will be built as an extendable framework with services to:

– Allow forecasters to enter and modify short-term, long-term, and hydrological hazard information with a common look and feel through CAVE

– Integrate data from various repositories such as IRIS, GIS, AWIPS II forecaster grids and other hazard information

– View hazard information as a “thin-client” web application available to partners

– Generate text and graphical products in standard and customized formats

Hazard Information ServicesStrawman Implementation Approach

IRIS(Hazard info, spotter reports, Calls to Action)

EDEX

GISDataRepositories .....

Spatial – Zoom In/Out

Temporal – Zoom In/Out

CAVE Forecaster Tools

AWIPS II

Hazard Information ServicesStrawman Implementation Approach

Hazard Information Services

GISDataRepositories .....

Spatial – Zoom In/Out

Temporal – Zoom In/Out

Web Application for Partners

Hazard Information ServicesStrawman Implementation Approach

Hazard Information Services

Exported AWIPS II data

IRIS(Hazard info, spotter reports, Calls to Action)

• There will be a Display Interface so that logical operations can flow to and from Cave OR a Web Application.

• Possible roles:

– GSD to work on the Hazard Information Services Framework– IRIS team to gather diverse hazard information and provide external

services such as iNWS– ALL development organizations (GSD, NSSL, OHD, IRIS team, NCEP,

NHC, MDL, etc.) to build services using framework– Forecaster Tools (GSD)– Tornado swaths (NSSL)– ADVISOR (MDL)– Legacy products– Customized products and services

• Iterative, incremental development with rapid feedback from Beta sites

• NSSL Hazardous Weather Tested (HWT) to be used as a testbed

Hazard Information ServicesStrawman Implementation Approach

Plan for Partner Interaction

• Listserver• Sub-committee on national Hazard Services

Team

Plan for Social Science Collaboration

Refined Requirements

Summary

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