JAG/ODAA Spring 2010 COPC

1. JAG/ODAASpring 2010 COPC Co-Chairs: Mr. James Vermeulen, FNMOC Dr. Bradley Ballish, NCEP Exec. Secretary: Mr. Anthony Ramirez, OFCM

2. Overview • ODAA Roster • Significant Accomplishments and On-going Activities • Action Items • New Issues

3. ODAARoster Sub-groups • Conventional data • Satellite data • Satellite data assimilation

4. JAG/ODAA Roster

5. JAG/ODAA Roster

6. Accomplishments and Ongoing Activities • Satellite data requests Transmit rain rate EDRs, Level 2 Data to AFWA (4 requests) Requestor: AFWA/2WXG Provider: NESDIS Status: Completed -- Closed Transmit Polar-Cloud Drift Winds, Level 2 data to AFWA Requestor: AFWA/2WXG Provider: NESDIS Status: Completed -- Closed Transmit 4 km Snow Cover Files to AFWA Requestor: AFWA/2WXG Provider: NESDIS Status: Open Transmit 1km AVHRR FRAC Requestor: FNMOC Provider: NESDIS Status: To Be Submitted Transmit TPW from AMSRE Requestor: FNMOC Provider: NESDIS Status: Closed

7. Accomplishments and Ongoing Activities Transmit High Res (1km, 500m, 250m) MODIS Requestor: FNMOC Provider: NESDIS Status: To Be Submitted Transmit Windsat Data (ocean EDRs, soil moisture) Requestor: AFWA Provider: FNMOCStatus: Open Transmit DMSP F-18 SSMIS EDR SDR TDR UPP Data Requestor: NESDIS Provider: FNMOC Status: Closed Transmit N-19 SBUV data Requestor: FNMOC Provider: NESDIS Status: Closed Transmit GOME-2 data Requestor: FNMOC Provider: NESDIS Status: To Be Submitted

8. JAG/ODAA Action Items Conventional Data Sub Group BUFR bulletin data type and description information for OPCs • NCEP-developed and NWS/TOC-implemented application derives the type of data contained in BUFR bulletins and creates an inventory file • BUFR inventory file implemented and available using a link available on the JAG/ODAA web site: http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/metadata/bufr_received/ • AFWA, NAVOCEANO, and FNMOC users have used this capability, found it very useful, and expressed their gratitude to Jeff Ator NCEP and Walter Smith NWS/TOC for their work in establishing this capability.

9. JAG/ODAA Action Items Subsurface Oceanographic BUFR Data GTS dissemination • NAVOCEANO has transitioned profiling float data into BUFR patterned after the ARGO profiling float template • NAVO is ready to transmit these data over the GTS, as is ARGO, and needs a template to put these data into groups for dissemination via the GTS • NWS/TOC building collective to satisfy this need.

10. JAG/ODAA Action Items Review of Draft U.S. BUFR Migration Plan • NCEP’s Jeff Ator is leading the development of a U.S. BUFR Migration plan • Group comments to the plan were completed and submitted • Implementation timelines will be reviewed at the next WMO meeting and will likely be revised with more realistic U.S. timelines. • JAG/ODAA recommends continuing the ongoing ascii to BUFR conversion efforts. • The JAG/ODAA will actively solicit feedback from OPC members on their ongoing conversion experiences.

11. JAG/ODAA Action Items Comparison of Fixed Weather Site Dictionaries • Comparison of upper air dictionaries resulted in operational improvements • Current phase: comparison of surface dictionaries • Tests show that changing the TOC dictionary used to make pseudo-synoptic reports from METAR data should be more accurate using field elevations from ASOS dictionary • NCEP, ASOS, Canadian, WMO and FAA airport dictionaries show a large number of differences in location and elevation • At NCEP, sites with large location errors show large surface pressure variance versus the model background and sites with large elevation errors show large surface pressure biases versus the background, especially in Canada

12. JAG/ODAA Action Items (cont’d) • Surface dictionary comparison and correction difficulties: • Many different and difficult dictionary formats • Many dictionaries do not have METAR or synoptic IDs • Airport files do not provide detailed information on elevations and locations of the measurements • No single organization provides information on all surface sites, even for US sites • Considerable bureaucratic effort to get information • Dr. Ballish will meet with OFCM’s Committee for Integrated Observing Systems (CIOS) to present these issues and ask how the OPCs can routinely obtain accurate, high resolution site metadata for the U.S.

13. JAG/ODAA Action Items Report upper air station location error findings (from dictionary comparisons) to WMO to correct station location information • NWS/TOC will send the information to the WMO Create email notification list for conventional data problem notifications • OPCs and other significant conventional data users may not be receiving notification of conventional data problems when they are discovered by NCEP or other OPCs. • An email group called the data alert group was created. The email address is odaa.alerts@noaa.gov • A table listing of the members will be maintained on the JAG/ODAA web page. • This has already been successfully used towards correcting operational aircraft waypoint decoding problems

14. JAG/ODAA Action Items NWS Gateway Data Request Procedures • Developed guidance for routine and priority requests for operational data from NWS Gateway • Available for quick reference on JAG/ODAA web page Radiosonde Replacement System (RRS) Update • Mr. Joseph Facundo, Chief of the Observing Systems Branch, Field Systems Operations Center, NOAA/NWS, provided an overview of the status of the RRS. • Centers can test using the BUFR data product available from NCDC • Establishing a task subgroup to address RRS data protocol issues (formats, packaging, processing, latency etc.) • Obtaining WMO’s BUFR sequence format for NWP

15. JAG/ODAA Action Items Satellite DataSub Group Obtain level 1b MODIS and IASI data for conversion to proxy NPOESS HDF5 products for testing • IPO advised that NPOESS proxy data is now available from MODIS data on both TERRA and AQUA satellites and produces VIIRS-like data with useful results • Data is available, staged on the Casanosa server and is accessible • Will continue to monitor the availability of the data stream from Casanosa or pursue own encodingvia current operationally transmitted data

16. JAG/ODAA Action Items Satellite DataAssimilation Sub Group GOES Experimental Hourly Winds Product • NESDIS produces an experimental hourly GOES wind product • FNMOC is interested in access to this data for testing for operational NWP use • Determining if the data can be made available in an ad hoc mode to enable testing

17. New Issues AFWA Proposal: AFWA’s Technical Director requests JAG/ODAA serve as a forum to host a F2F Data Summit • Discussed by JAG/ODAA • Concern: JAG/ODAA Scope/Terms of Reference • Alternative Option: Hold as part of AMS Conference

18. OPCs: • Acquiring Korean COMS-1 Satellite data Investigate feasibility of acquiring the Korean Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite-1 (COMS-1) Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI) and Meteorological Imager (MI) data, potentially from AFWA. This satellite is scheduled to be launched in April 2010. • Delivery of NAVO SST data to NCEP/EMC Work with NCEP and OSDPD to arrange delivery of NAVO SST data to the Environmental Modeling Center. The current system used to make NAVO SST data available to EMC will be discontinued within a year.

19. JAG/ODAA Initiatives • Review FOUO designation for ESDA TR-1 • Terms of Reference revision • Conventional Data Annex Development

20. Questions?