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- vision, mission, & roles
- partners & customers
- products & services
- value added by HPC forecasters
- accomplishments & plans
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- Mission statement: to provide
1) forecast, guidance, and analysis products and services
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support of the daily
forecasting activities of the NWS and
its customers, and
2) tailored weather support to other government agencies in
emergency and special
situations.
- Vision statement:
to be recognized by the NWS field offices and other forecast
groups as a center of excellence for:
- facilitating collaboration
- heavy precipitation forecasting
- winter weather forecasting
- medium-range forecasting
- real-time numerical model
diagnostics & interpretation
- surface analysis
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- starting point
- second opinion
- focusing mechanism
- unifying influence
- emergency backup
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- NWS field offices: WFOs, RFCs,
CWSUs
- other NCEP centers: TPC, SPC,
AWC, OPC, EMC, NCO, CPC
- federal agencies: DHS/FEMA, USA
COE, FAA, NTSB, DoD, USBR,
USAID, USTDA, EPA, White House (Hurricane Mitch,
Y2K ICC, Inaugurations, September 11, 2001)
- state agencies: water resources,
flood management, emergency services
- media: TV, radio, newspapers,
wire services, Internet services
- private sector: data vendors, forecast services, utilities, forensics,
retailers,
researchers
- aviation: general aviation and others
- academic community: atmospheric
sciences and other departments
- international: foreign met
services,
media, civil defense, travelers
- general public: analysis &
forecast
products, visits
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- quantitative precipitation forecasts (QPFs), excessive rainfall, river
flood outlook, and heavy ice & snow guidance
- medium-range guidance
- model diagnostic discussions & associated graphics tools
- surface analyses &
Daily Weather Map
- basic weather forecasts
- Travelers Forecasts,
Selected Cities Summaries
- So. American & Caribbean
prognostic discussions
and training
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- Special forecasts for mid-West floods (USA COE & FEMA, 1993)
- Presidential Inauguration support (1997, 2001)
- Forecasts for Mexican & Guatemalan fires (USAID, 1998)
- Y2K Information Coordination Center (White House, 1999-2000)
- Recovery from terrorist attacks (White House, 2001)
- Training of field forecasters in quantitative precipitation, medium
range,
and ensemble forecasting, as well as use of N-AWIPS workstations
- Capitol Hill briefings on weather events/activities (Isidore, 2002)
- Backup to NHC’s hurricane program
- Real-time guidance track forecasts for NHC
- Tropical cyclone prediction at days 6 & 7
- Hurricane Liaison Team briefings
- Precipitation statements in TPC Public Advisories
- Public Advisories for formerly named
tropical cyclones after landfall
- Media interviews & press conferences
(Bret 1999 at FEMA)
(Jan 2000 east coast ice storm)
- Weather support to Hurricane Mitch
mitigation (USAID, 1998)
- Winter storm summaries
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- AWIPS/NOAAPORT
- Family of Services
- Internet
- Dedicated lines to other agencies
- Telephone / television
- Videoteleconferencing
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- Exceeded GPRA Day 1 QPF goal for 1.0-inch threat score of 0.28
(HPC accuracy: 0.297)
- Accelerated release of day 3 QPF from 21 to 20 UTC at field office
request (Oct 11, 2005)
- Supported development, approval, and implementation of QPF White Paper
(approved by NWS Ops Committee on Jun 28, 2006)
- Implemented gridded Excessive Rainfall Product at request of NWS WFO
Tropical Hazards Team (July 10, 2006)
- Began issuing suite of QPF, FOP, and Excessive Rainfall products in
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) format (Aug 1, 2006)
- Began issuing QPF graphics for the Tropics (Jan 17, 2006)
- Implemented experimental winter weather impact graphics based on the
SREF (Sep 15, 2005)
- Completed first full year of the HPC Hydrometeorological Testbed
- Enhancing forecaster training
- Supporting field experiments
- Evaluating advanced forecaster techniques
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- Established back-up Hurricane Liaison Team capability with FEMA
(inaugurated for 2006 hurricane season)
- Established infrastructure and tested permanent back-up capability for
TPC website (in place for 2006 hurricane season)
- Began preparing Daily Weather Map daily instead of weekly for Internet
dissemination (Mar 21, 2006)
- Added daily 1930 UTC release of medium-range gridded forecasts based on
12 UTC models (Apr 14, 2006)
- Enhanced air-quality support to EPA and air-quality decision makers
(Jun 1-Aug 31, 2006)
- Expanded coverage of daily narrative discussion on weather factors to
include entire conterminous U.S.
(previous year: only area
east of Mississippi River)
- Started providing air-quality briefings on demand to mid-Atlantic
air-quality forecasters, in addition to previous Northeast U.S.
air-quality managers.
- Hosted visit and press conference by U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski
(Jun 5, 2006)
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- Achieve GPRA Day 1 QPF goal for 1.0-inch threat score of 0.29
- Support evolving requirements of the NWS field offices in the digital
era
- Conduct WWD collaboration experiment with Intermountain WFOs
- Implement experimental day 2 and day 3 excessive rainfall products
- Conduct collaborative forecast exchange program with NWS field offices
(QPF / Medium range)
- Conduct training and test QPF backup with SPC
- Test feasibility of LINUX laptop for operational backup
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- Implement initial phase of the modernization of the Selected Cities and
Travelers Forecast products in collaboration with MDL
- Conduct International Desks visitor training
(10 visitors minimum)
- Continue to enhance QPF training materials through the HPC
Hydrometeorological Testbed
- Develop experimental PQPF products
- Continue migration of HPC processes to the Compute Farm
- Continue NCWCP floor space and transition planning
- Implement new HPC/OPC organization/management structure
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