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NOAA Climate Mission Goal
Climate Observation & Analysis (COA) Program
Program Manager’s COA Overview
Thomas Karl
COA Program Manager
Climate Working Group (CWG)
Climate Observations & Analysis Program Review
April 11-13, 2007
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COA Program
Briefing Outline
 Program Overview
− COA Performance Objective & Linkages
− Requirements Drivers
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Mission Requirements
Capabilities and Outcomes
Thematic priorities
Partners, Users, Benefits, Feedback
− Other CWG questions
 Major Program Accomplishments 2002-2007
 COA Linkages: NOAA, Interagency, International
− COA project examples
 COA Projects & Assigned Resources
− Current status with budget resources
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COA Program Review
NOAA Planning, Programming, Budget, and
Execution System (PPBES)
JAN-JUN
Stakeholders Meeting
NOAA Strategic Plan
Annual Guidance Memo
Program Ops Plan (POP)
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JUN-DEC
Goal SPA
Goal Program Plan
Program Decision Memo
(PDM) w/ Budget Adj.
NOV-FEB
Enacted Budget
DOC/OMB Passbacks
LO Prgm. Adj. Narratives
OCT-SEP
Executing Line Offices/
Project Mgrs
Implement POA&Ms
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COA Program
Performance Objective – Climate Goal Linkage
Climate Goal:
Understand climate variability and change to enhance
society’s ability to plan and respond
Climate Programs Goal Performance Objective & Outcomes
COA - Climate
Observations &
Analysis
Climate Forcing
Reduce uncertainty in climate projections
through timely information on the forcing
and feedbacks contributing to change in
the Earth’s climate.
Climate Predictions
and Projections
Improve climate predictive capability from
weeks to decades, with an increased range
of applicability for management and policy
decisions.
Climate and Ecosystems
Regional Decision Support
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Describe and understand
the state of the climate
system through integrated
observation, analysis, and
data stewardship.
Understand and predict the consequences of
climate variability and change on marine
ecosystems.
Increase [number and use] availability of
climate products and services to enhance
public and private sector decision making
A Predictive understanding of the
global climate
system on time
scales of weeks to
decades with
quantified uncertainties
sufficient for
making informed &
reasoned decisions
Climate-sensitive
sectors and the
climate-literate
public effectively
incorporating
NOAA’s climate
products into their
Plans and
decisions
COA Program Overview
Requirements Drivers
International Agreements
Interagency Agreements
• Integrated Earth Obs. Systems (GEOSS)
• National Integrated Drought Information
System (NIDIS) (USGEO)
• Integrated Ocean Observing System
• Architecture Data Management Plan (USGEO)
• GCOS, GOOS, GTOS
• WMO Global Atmospheric Watch (GAW)
• Intergov’t. Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)
• Scientific Data Stewardship (in progress)
COA Program Drivers
U.S. Executive Branch
U.S. Legislation
• Climate Change Science Program
(CCSP) Strategic Plan of 2003
• U.S. Global Change Research Act
• Strategic Plan for the U.S.
Integrated Earth Observing System 2004
• U.S. Ocean Action Plan
• Climate Change Research Initiative
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• Weather Service Organic Act
• National Climate Program Act of 1978
COA Program Description
COA Program Charter
Mission Requirements
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Establish an Agency Records Center for U.S. Weather and Climate
records. (Federal Records Act)
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Provide long-term preservation of the Nation’s Climate Record.
(Federal Records Act, Data Quality Act, National Climate Program Act,
NARA Records and Guidelines, ICSU World Data Center Guidelines &
Policy, and U.S. Ocean Action Plan)
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Provide climate data and information that meets rigorous scientific
standards for quality. (Data Quality Act, Coastal Zone Management Act,
and U.S. Ocean Action Plan)
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Provide access to Climate Data and Information. (Federal Records Act,
National Climate Program Act, NARA Records and Guidelines, ICSU World
Data Center Guidelines & Policy, Consolidated Appropriations Act, and
U.S. Ocean Action Plan)
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Provide monitoring, assessment, and analysis of the climate system.
(Global Change Research Act, National Climate Program Act, National
Weather Service Organic Act, Coastal Zone Management Act, and U.S.
Ocean Action Plan)
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COA Program Description
Capabilities and Outcomes
COA Capabilities
Observations
Data
Management
Analysis of
Climate
System
Capability Drivers
COA Outcomes
• Enable policymakers &
resource managers to
make informed national &
global policy decisions.
• Foundation for other 2 capabilities
• Critical to understanding climate
• Essential for fidelity of archived records
• Provides archive, access, stewardship
• Dependent upon first 2 capabilities
• Critical to societal benefits
•Easy access to new &
historical national & global
obs. & climate analyses
that meet rigorous
scientific standards for
quality.
•Documentation of the
State of the Climate system
through a network of
integrated climate
observing and data
management systems.
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COA Program Description
Partnerships and Collaborations
l Observe & Monitor l Archive l Access l Standards
l Certify
l Quality Control l Analyze & Assess
NATIONAL
INTERNATIONAL
STATE & REGIONAL
PARTNERS
l USGEO
l State Climatologists
l NOAA Goals
l WMO
l Regional Climate Centers
l NASA
l ICSU
l NOAA Regional Teams
l DOD
l WDC
l CDMP
l EPA
l Bi/Multilateral agreements
l IOOS Regional Assoc.
lUSDA
l IPCC
lDOE
l UNESCO
lDOT/FAA
l IPRC
PARTNERS
lNSF
lDOI/USGS
PARTNERS
l GEOSS
l CEOS
Climate Information / Reference Data Bases / Assessments
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COA Program Description
Users/Beneficiaries
Earth (In-Situ) Platform
Weather and climate sensitive
industries account for about onethird of the Nation’s GDP, or $3
trillion, ranging from finance,
insurance, and real estate to
services, retail and wholesale
trade, and manufacturing.
Commercial
90%
Satellite Platform
Government
70%
Radar Platform
Government
32%
Additional details provided in NCDC
overview briefing
Government
6%
Education
4%
Commercial
25%
Education
5%
Commercial
20%
Education
48%
Climate data access by user type
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COA Program Description
Users / Feedback
User interaction & feedback are critical to NOAA’s success in terms
of feedback on NOAA data, information, products, and services
Data Users’ Workshops
2003 Workshop
Boulder, CO
350 in attendance
Keynote: VADM Lautenbacher
188 recommendations
Satisfaction Survey
(Scale 1-5; 5 extremely satisfied)
2005 Workshop
Asheville, NC
250 in attendance
Keynote: Jack Kelly
102 recommendations
Planning 2008 Workshop
Likely Asheville, NC
Broadened to all of NOAA
Climate, Weather/Water,
Commerce/Transportation,
Ecosystems
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Annual NOAA Stakeholders
Meetings
Response Period: Feb - Apr, 2003
NOAA Offices: NCDC, NODC, NGDC, SAA
Population Size: 25,000
Response Rate: 6300 (25%)
COA Program Overview
Other CWG Questions
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COA Program Description
Review/Oversight/Advisory Groups
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SAB Climate Working Group (CWG)
SAB Data Archive and Access Requirements Working Group (DAARWG)
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS)
Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (CENR)
United states Group on Earth Observations (USGEO)
Subcommittee on National Disaster Reduction
National Research Council (NRC) Review Committees (as requested)
GCOS Science Panels:
 Atmospheric Observations Panel on Climate (AOPC)
 Ocean Observations Panel on Climate (OOPC)
Climate Observing System Council (COSC)
C²D² has an external Science Panel that meets as needed to review C²D² activities
Applied Research Center (ARC)
NOAA Data Management Committee (DMC)
NOAA Councils
NOAA Acquisition Review Board
NOAA Information Technology Review Board (NITRB)
Department of Commerce Information Technology Review Board (CITRB)
NESDIS Information Technology Architect Team (ITAT)
Ad-Hoc Advisory Panel for the Paleoclimatology
Ad-Hoc Advisory Panel for the U.S. Climate Research Network (USCRN)
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COA Program Description
NOAA Cooperative Institutes
COA collaborations with NOAA COOP Institutes:
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Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS)
Cooperative Institute for Oceanographic Satellite Studies (CIOSS)
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)
Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research (CIAR)
Cooperative Institute for Climate and Ocean Research (CICOR)
Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications Research (CICAR)
Cooperative Institute for Climate Science (CICS)
Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS)
Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS)
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR)
Joint Institute for Marine Observations (JIMO)
Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO)
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COA Program Description
Grants
 Climate Change Data & Detection (C²D²): Six/year ~3.0M/year
 Office Climate Observations (OCO) – Oceans: 62/year
~$23.4M/year
 Applied Research Center (ARC) - ~10/year ~1.0M/year
 Arctic: Five/year ~$1.9M/year
 Atmospheric Brown Cloud ~$1.398M/year (5 year grant ‘03-’07)
 Administered by U.S. GCOS Program Manager
 International Pacific Research Center’s Asia Pacific Data Research
Center ~$2.0M/year
 Administered by Director, World Data Center for Meteorology
 Scientific Data Stewardship (SDS): Planned Eight/year
~$0.8M/year
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Major Program
Highlights
2002-2007
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Selected Accomplishments
 U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN)
 U.S. Historical Climatology Network Modernization (USHCN-M)
 Monitoring Network Performance {Health of the Network (HON)
 Global Climate Atmospheric Observing System (GCOS)
 Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)
 Monthly/Seasonal/Annual Climate Monitoring Reports and Press
Releases
 National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS)
 NEXRAD Project Highlights (Partnership with National Severe Storms
Laboratory)
 National Operational Model Archive and Distribution System
(NOMADS)
 Precipitation Frequency Estimates (PFE) – 54 Updates from 1960s
 Climate Change Data and Detection (C²D²)
 Paleoclimatology
 Climate Data Modernization Program (CDMP)
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COA Highlights/Activities
U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN)
From 2002 to March 2007
 Eight (8) USCRN stations installed in
2002
 89 USCRN stations installed.
 84 USCRN stations commissioned.
 99.5% average annual data capture
rate.
Meeting Performance Measure targets:
Determine National Explained (%)
Variance for annual average surface
air temperature T = 97.3% and
precipitation P = 92.6%.
Stillwater, OK
 Metadata web-based documentation
and access system designed/
operational.
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COA Highlights/Activities
U.S. Historical Climatology Network – Modernization (USHCN-M)
2006-2007 (State of Alabama)
 Ten (10) stations installed 5/06-3/07.
 Six (6) commissioned.
 Four (4) installations planned spring ‘07.
 Data ingest capture rate: ≥99%
 Leveraging off of USCRN lessons learned
and proven technologies and procedures.
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COA Highlights/Activities
Monitoring Network Performance
 Near-real time monitoring of observations
(sensors and network).
 Tailored quality control and missing data
reports sent to respective observing
system manager.
 NOAA Networks Currently Monitored:
 NWS COOP Observer Network
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U. S. CRN
NWS Radiosonde
GCOS GSN and GUAN
NWS ASOS
USHCN-M (new)
N.C. Arboretum, Asheville, NC
COA Highlights/Activities
Monitoring Network Performance
Change Point Detection
Phoenix, AZ
At the arrow
ASOS installation
Maximum Temperature
 Assessments of data
completeness, quality
assurance, and data validity.
 Automated monitoring of
stations using ‘Watch List.’
 Statistical “Change Point”
detection algorithms.
 Provides support for Network
Modernization
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COA Highlights/Activities
U. S. Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)
 Non-reporting GCOS U/A sites reduced
from 20 to 3 since 2004.
Pacific Islands (PI) GCOS Regional
Program
 15% increase receipt historical, current
daily, and monthly GCOS data.
 Transition Global Observing Systems
Information Center (GOSIC) at U. of Delaware
from Research activity to Operational entity.
 Established Pacific Islands GCOS Regional
Program in partnership with Australia & NZ.
 Improved sustainability/performance
GCOS stations in the region by 25%.
 Established world's second weekly highquality stratospheric water vapor observing
site in Lauder, NZ using frost-point
hygrometer.
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COA Highlights/Activities
Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)
IOOS Component
FY 2006
 57% completion (55% in FY 05) - ARGO float
deployments.
 Initiated Buy - new real-time CA Current
monitoring system
 Begun transition of MOVE array from Germany
to sustained operations by SCRIPPS.
 Katrina hurricane supplemental - 62 hurricane
drifters ready for deployment (warehoused in
FY 06 - no hurricane activity).
 Ten (10) Ocean variables included State of
Climate Report.
Select Accomplishments
 PMEL - Transition TAO to NDBC/ Initiate
Indian Ocean TAO array.
 AOML - IOOS Global Drifter Program
(GDP), Surface Drifters deployment
completed/maintained (replenished)
~1,250 drifters, since Sep ‘05.
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Tide gauge stations
Drifting Buoys
Tropical Moored Buoys
Profiling Floats
Ships of Opportunity
Ocean Reference Stations
Ocean Carbon Networks
Arctic Observing System
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Dedicated Ship Support
Data & Assimilation
Subsystems
Management and Product
Delivery
Satellites -- SST, Surface
Topography, Wind, Color,
Sea Ice
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COA Highlights/Activities
Climate Monitoring Reports
 Annual State of the Ocean and the Ocean Observing System for
Climate
 2002 introduced Annually NOAA's State of the Climate Report.
 130 pages, 150 contributors from 33 countries
 Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) since 2002 doubled
from 10 to 20 (Target - 40 ECVs)
 Provide State-of-the-Climate reports for each month and season.
 Developed U.S. Drought Monitoring Reports.
 Publish weekly, monthly, and annually
 Developed and publish monthly North America Drought
Monitoring Report with Canada, and Mexico.
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COA Highlights/Activities
National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS)
 Multi-agency U.S. GEO working group
developed the NIDIS Near-Term
Opportunities
 Approved and released to the public
 Climate Program office hires a NOAA NIDIS
Project Manager.
 FY 08 funding established for Climate Goal,
COA Program execution:
 Establish a U.S. Drought Portal (USDP).
 Install soil sensor suites (temperature
and moisture) at 114 USCRN stations.
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COA Highlights/Activities
NIDIS: U.S. Drought Portal (USDP)
Concept:
Internet portal to provide
drought early warning
system from U.S. county
to national scale
U.S. Drought Portal (USDP)
Portal will provide
seamless and timely
access to
Integrated Drought
observations
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COA Highlights/Activities
NEXRAD (WSR-88D)
A Climate and Weather & Water Partnership
NEXRAD Rainfall Estimates
2002-2003 (selected accomplishments)
Transition to real time ingest.
Data acquisition latency reduced: weeks to 10 seconds.
New techniques reduced access/retrieval 100 fold.
Data capture rates increase from ~65% to ~99%.
Reduced interactive processing/archiving saved
>$400K.
 Web accesses average/month from GBs to >4TBs.
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Blended Radar-Rain Gage Rainfall Climatology
2003-2005
 Receive/archive 31 Canadian Radars, 3-5 minute
latency.
 Data used in model output and blended products.
2006
 Receiving Korean WSR-88D radar in near real time.
 NEXRAD Java Tool kit on Google top item last 5 years.
Ongoing 2007
 Developing visualization tools for browse/display of
data.
 Interactive Weather Radar Viewer & Data Exporter
placed into OPEN GIS compliant environment.
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COA Highlights/Activities
NOMADS
Intercomparison: Weather Models &
Observational record
 Operational 2003 – NOMADS a ground breaking
technology proven to be viable and scalable.
 Leveraged partnerships across the Geosciences
community.
 NRC BASC recommended: " NOMADS should be
maintained and extended to include
(a) ... ensembles; and (b) re-forecast datasets
to facilitate post-processing.”
• NWS placing NOMADS in an operational
environment in Silver Spring, Ft Worth,
and Boulder.
• User Stats, NCDC 2006: >87TB and 35M
downloads.
Upper-air in-situ data and NCEP
North America Regional Reanalysis Model
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COA Highlights/Activities
Example Application of Climate & Weather Extremes
Updating Precipitation Frequency Estimates
Precipitation Frequency Estimates provide the climatology of heavy
rainfall with particular attention to variability.
 NOAA precip frequency
estimates are National Standards
− NOAA Atlas 14 multiple volumes
 Most current standards out of date
(54 from early 1960s or 1973)
− leads to unsafe design or excessive cost
− risks to ecosystem, life, property
 Updates completed:
− 2003: AZ, NV, NM, UT, SE CA
− 2004: IL, IN, OH, PA, NJ, DE, MD, DC, VA, WV,
NC, SC, TN, KY
− 2006: Puerto Rico & U.S. Virgin Islands and
Updated Volumes 1 &2: improve spatial
interpolation and temporal consistency
− 2007: Signed agreement update remainder
CA
 Remainder of U.S. updated ~2019
Percent Difference 1961 and 2004 Atlases - 100 Year 24 hour
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COA Highlights/Activities
Climate Change Data & Detection (C²D²)
 C²D² Manager, Associate Editor, and Designated Federal Official (DFO) for CCSP Synthesis and
Assessment Product 1.1 and CCSP Product 3.3.
 Proposal solicitation and awards process support projects that address both CCSP Product 1.1
and 3.3 subject areas (tropospheric temperature trends and weather and climate extremes).
 International Detection and Attribution Group (IDAG) co-sponsored by C²D² and DOE supports
new thrust, "operational attribution.“
 C²D², a leader in the joint NOAA-WMO/GCOS effort to develop plans for implementation of an
upgraded observing network that will improve Climate Data Records (CDRs).
 Support NOAA related NSF Earth System History activity, e.g., 19th century tropical storms;
modeling SST-forced western U.S. drought; Update blended N. A. drought reconstruction grid.
 Reconstitution IGBP PAGES (Past Global Changes) Int’l Project Office.
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Paleoclimatology
 391 data sets acquired FY 03-06 (90, 87, 107, 103)
 Data acquired in support of:
− IPCC Paleoclimate chapter
− CCSP Arctic Trends Report
− CCSP Abrupt Climate Change Report
 International Multi-Proxy Fire History Database
completed
 Abrupt Climate Change Google ranking = #2
 Paleoclimatology Google ranking = #1
 20 Peer-reviewed papers published
Fire scar from a tree cataloged in the
International Multi-Proxy
Fire History Database
Scientists collecting lake sediment cores. Data from
paleoclimate proxies found at sites like this make up one
of the 391 paleoclimate data sets archived by NOAA
between FY03-06.
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COA Highlights/Activities
Climate Data Modernization Program (CDMP)
 Records On-Line – 50 million (7 TBs)
 Support 50-65 projects per year (i.e.
shoreline vectorization, glacier change
images)
 Observations keyed – 37+ million back to
1800s
 Images scanned – 47+ million
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Linkages: NOAA,
Interagency, International
COA project examples
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Daily Blended Sea Surface Temperature
Linkages &
processes
needed to
create daily
SST product
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Daily Blended Sea Surface Temperature
Observations
Satellite
NOAA POES
NASA AMSR
Climate In-Situ
GTS Buoy
& Ships
Model
NCEP Sea Ice
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Daily Blended Sea Surface Temperature
Data Management / Processing
All data management and processing performed at NCDC
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Daily Blended Sea Surface Temperature
Analysis / Examples of Expected Uses
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Integrated Surface Climate Data (ISD)
Partners and Stakeholders
 Air Force Combat Climatology Center
 US Navy Fleet Numerical Meteorology and
Oceanography Detachment
 Regional Climate Centers
 National Weather Service
 Environmental Protection Agency
 National Center for Atmospheric Research
 Environment Canada
 Many others – provided input regarding
data usage, priorities, product
requirements, etc
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Integrated Surface Climate Data (ISD)
Linkages needed to Create ISD product
Various historical
data forms
Numerous
historical datasets,
WMO GTS, etc
Historical US data,
NOAAPORT, etc
Country-specific
datasets, etc
CDMP/
NCDC
AFCCC/
Navy
NCDC
NCAR
Convert to
ISD standards
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Products—data
summaries, “global
summary of day,” etc
(POR:1900-current)
Data
Management/
Processing
Convert to
ISD standards
Update daily
Merge and quality-control into final
ISD database
Access Services—
FTP, GIS, WWW
Interface, etc
Observations/
Sources
NOAA and external
customers—climate
monitoring, engineering
standards, etc
Analysis/
Services/
Products
ISD Analysis/ Service/ Products
“Climate Data Online” services provide several format options
“Local Climatological Data” product
Global summary of day product
CDs and DVDs
12 data summaries/frequency distributions
− ceiling-visibility, temperature, dew point, sky cover
 Graphing capabilities, wind rose
 GIS services, FTP services
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COA Linkages with Climate Forcings
Example: Linkage required among Climate Forcings,
Climate Predictions and Projections and COA
Support effective consideration of actions on both air quality & climate
change forced by atmospheric composition change
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Observations
− Climate Forcings variables
− Climate State variables (Satellite & in-situ)
 Stratospheric ozone data analyzed, used in studies and assessments, e.g.
WMO/UNEP Ozone assessments
 Cloud statistics used for analysis
− Model Reanalysis data/products
 Basis for diagnosis and predictions, e.g., Chemical transport Models
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Data Management/Processing
− CLASS (satellite & in-situ)
− NOMADS (model data)
− Related metadata
Develop Attribution Analysis (New Opportunities)
− quantify climate forcing of air quality (use long-term air quality &
meteorological observations)
− evaluate skill of coupled climate-AQ models
− evaluate application & impact issues, e.g. precip. & temperature variations
w.r.t. day-of-week & time-of-day
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COA Linkages with Climate Predictions and Projections
Several example linkages
 COA In situ observations (oceans obs., SSTs, soil
moisture, etc.)
− Used in CPP for initializing Earth System Models
− Used to validate/verify CPP models and data assimilation
systems
 CPP modeling
− CPP systems can provide a basis for OSSE framework for
designing optimal observational network
− Model integrations used for attribution and detection
 COA Historical reanalysis
− Provides a baseline verification for the CPP model simulations
− COA Reanalysis & obs. (COADS etc.) leads to improved climate
predictions under CPP
 COA collaborates with CPP on archival of some models (e.g.,
NOMADS)
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Linkages: NOAA, Interagency, International
CLASS and GEO-IDE
NOAA’s Integrated Data Environment
Expand CLASS to provide for archive & access to all NOAA data
Comprehensive Large
Array data Stewardship
System (CLASS) will:
 Be a flexible interoperable
framework compatible with the
GEO IDE model
 Enables Scientific Data
Stewardship activities to make
data more useful to global
clientele
 Incorporates an OpenArchitecture capability allowing
use of automated machine
interfaces
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Linkages: NOAA, Interagency, International
Service Oriented Architecture
Enabling Data Product Interoperability: Goal of SOA for IEOS
A multi-faceted framework
 Interoperability through SOA is achieved via a selected set of standards and protocols
functioning at the interface between system elements.
 Users engage a distributed set of loosely coupled data & services through connections
made just-in-time between data sources, services & user clients.
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Linkages: NOAA, Interagency, International
Climate Indicators
 National Climate Impact Indicators
program (NCIIP) established in 2002
− to enhance the understanding of weather &
climate’s effects on vital socioeconomic
sectors of the Nation
 Climate indices developed:
− Energy (Residential Energy Demand Index)
− Agriculture (Soybeans & corn)
− Air quality (Air Stagnation)
− Transportation
− Convective SIGMETs
− Health (West Nile Virus)
 Possible Future Indices
− Housing Starts, Moisture Stress Index,
Transportation (roadways, rail, waterways),
Retail Sales, Tourism, Water Management
Stress Index, etc.
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Impact of thunderstorms on the
U.S. Airspace System
COA Projects & Assigned
Resources
Current status with budget
resources
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COA Projects & Assigned Resource
 Observations Capability
− 16 Projects
 Data Management Capability
− 13 Projects
 Analysis of the Climate System Capability
− 7 Projects
Number of COA projects may vary depending on “ear mark” funding
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COA Program Description
Project Plans
(each has a Project Operating Plan)
No/Minimal Funding
Funding Line Office
Needs Additional Investment
COA Project Title
Mostly On Track
Executing Line Office
Capability: Observations
Atmospheric (Howard Diamond-NESDIS/NCDC & Krisa Arzayus-OAR/CPO)
NWS
Solar Irradiance data & proxies
OAR
National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) Soil Temp/Moisture
Sensors – FY 08 start
OAR
U. S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN)
OAR
Diurnal to multi-decadal global climate system variations – extract climate signal
from noise in-situ and U/A observations
OAR
U.S. GEWEX life cycle O&M
ARL/ATDD
OAR
U.S. Baseline Solar Radiation Network (BSRN) (SURFRAD and NOAA STAR) life
cycle O&M
OAR/ESRL
NWS
U.S. Historical Climatology Network Modernization (USHCN-M)
NESDIS/NCDC
OAR
Global Climate Atmospheric Observing System (GCOS)
NESDIS/NCDC
OAR
Alaskan Climate Reference Network (AK CRN)
NESDIS/NCDC
OAR (ESRL & ARL)
Future: Surface Energy Budget Network (SEBN) (U.S. BSRN (SURFRAD & STAR)
& U.S. GEWEX)
Radiosonde Replacement System (RRS) Data Continuity Study (DCS)
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Reference Radiosonde
NWS/SEC
OAR/NESDIS/NCDC
NESDIS/NCDC
ARL
OAR/ESRL & ARL/ATDD
NESDIS/NCDC & NWS
OAR/NESDIS/NWS
COA Program Description
Project Plans
(each has a Project Operating Plan)
No/Minimal Funding
Funding Line Office
Needs Additional Investment
COA Project Title
Mostly On Track
Executing Line Office
Capability: Observations
Oceans (Mike Johnson/Krisa Arzayus – OAR/OCO)
OAR
GOOS - Atlantic Oceanographic & Marine Lab
OAR/AOML
OAR
GOOS - Pacific Marine Environmental Lab
OAR/PMEL
NWS
IOOS – TAO Refresh
NWS/NDBC
NWS
IOOS – TAO Life Cycle O&M
NWS/NDBC
OAR
GOOS -Integrate Ocean Observations System (IOOS)
includes ARGO, CLIVAR, etc.
OAR/OCO
Arctic (John Calder/Kathy Crane – OAR/OCO)
OAR
Arctic Climate Obs & Modeling System
OAR/OCO
OAR
SEARCH - Arctic Research
OAR/OCO
Note: Climate Arctic Initiatives less AK CRN & AK Coastal Climatologies (NCDC)
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OAR/OCO
COA Program Description
Project Plans
(each has a Project Operating Plan)
No/Minimal Funding
Funding Line Office
Needs Additional Investment
COA Project Title
Mostly On Track
Executing Line Office
Capability: Data Management (Tom Karl - NESDIS/NCDC)
NESDIS
Climate Data Base Modernization (CDMP) - NOAA + Ear Mark $s
NESDIS/NCDC
NESDIS
Environmental Data Systems Modernization (EDSM)
NESDIS/NCDC
NESDIS
Integrated Surface Observations (ISO) - Redirected EDSM funds
NESDIS/NCDC
National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) U.S.
Drought Portal (USDP) - FY 08 start
OAR/NESDIS
NESDIS
EOS Data Storage Facility Project (PAC) - 50/50 Climate and W&W.
NESDIS/OSD
NESDIS
Archive, Access, and Assessment (Only NCDC)
NESDIS
CLASS (PAC)
OAR
OAR
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NESDIS/NCDC
NESDIS/OSD
Network Performance Monitoring (HON)
NESDIS/NCDC
NESDIS
GEO – Integrated Data Environment (IDE)
NESDIS/NCDC
NESDIS
Scientific Data Stewardship (SDS) - Redirected EDSM funds
NESDIS/NCDC
NESDIS
CLASS (ORF) – Life Cycle O&M
NESDIS/OSD
NESDIS
GOES Data Archive Project (ORF) (ear mark)
NESDIS/OSD
NESDIS
International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) (ear mark)
NESDIS/NCDC
NESDIS
Integrated Data & Environmental Applications (IDEA) Center (ear
mark)
NESDIS/NCDC
COA Program Description
Project Plans
(each has a Project Operating Plan)
No/Minimal Funding
Funding Line Office
Needs Additional Investment
COA Project Title
Mostly On Track
Executing Line Office
Capability: Analysis of the Climate System – Includes Reanalysis and Attribution Activities
(R. S. Webb, C. D. Miller, and K. Mooney)
OAR
CCSP Reports
OAR
Climate Change Data and Detection (C²D²)
OAR/CGC
OAR
Analysis/Attribution – ESRL/PSD
(formerly CDC and Aeronomy Lab -AL)
OAR/ESRL
OAR
Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research
OAR
Explaining Climate Conditions to Improve Predictions
(ECIP) - New start FY 07
Coastal Climatologies
No NOAA $s
Precipitation Frequency Estimates (PFE)
OAR/NESDIS
OAR
OAR/NESDIS/NWS
NEDSIS/NCDC & NOS/CSC
NWS/OHD
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