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Evolving NWS Observations NWS Portfolio Management

AMS Forum on Observing the Environment from the Ground Up • The NWS Headquarters reorganization led the NWS to Tuesday, March 7, 2016 adopt a portfolio management framework that: • More directly aligns corporate strategic plans with mission delivery • Allows the NWS to prioritize its investments and allocate its workforce more effectively • Portfolios established to align with major functions of the NWS mission

Mark B. Miller Acting Director, Surface/Upper Air Division Office of Observations, NWS National Service

New NWS HQ Organization Observation Portfolio Effective: April 1, 2015

CFO/CAO Office of the Chief of Staff Office of Observations The Office of Enterprise Risk Management Joseph A. Pica Assistant & Internal Audit Office International Affairs Administrator Director AA Chief Information Officer DAA OBS Portfolio Office Office of the Chief Learning Officer Kevin Schrab Office of Portfolio Manager Organizational Excellence

New HQ Office Field Office Office of Planning & Office of Chief Operating Existing HQ Office Programming for Service Officer Delivery

Radar Operations Center National Data Buoy Center Surface / Upper Air Division Terry Clark Helmut Portmann Mark B. Miller (acting) Office of National Office of Analyze, Director Director Director Office of Office of Office of Science & Centers for Regional National Central Forecast, & Facilities Observations Dissemination Technology Env. Offices Water Center Processing Support Office Integration Prediction

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FY2017 Observation Priorities Portfolio Management

• NEXRAD Service Life Extension Requirements Program Observations Portfolio facilitates development of service observations and develops observational requirements • ASOS Service Life Extension Program (New) • Frequency Migration Gaps (Spectrum Funded) Analyzes existing observing capabilities and identifies gaps • Satellite User Readiness – GOES-R (Launch date October 2016) Support GOES-R DOE-4 (Begins 17 July 2016, for 37 days) Impacts – JPSS (Launch date Q2 FY17) Evaluates the impact of observing capabilities on NWS’ and NOAA’s services – COSMIC-2A (Launch date Q2 FY17) and products

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Portfolio Management Tools NWS Systems of Record

ASOS C-MAN COOP CWB • COURL: Consolidated Observation User Requirements List - documented Automated Surface Coastal-Marine Cooperative Observer Coastal Weather observation user requirements by each NOAA Mission Service Area (MSA) Observing System Automated Network Program Buoys • SoR: Systems of Record - a database of over 180 observing system GAMMA summaries (NWS owns 13) DART NEXRAD NPN Deep-Ocean Assessment Airborne Gamma Radiation Water Equivalent NEXt Generation NOAA Profiler • CASrt: CasaNOSA Analysis System Requirements Tool – data analysis tool to and Reporting of and Soil Moisture Survey Network measure how well any observing capability satisfies any given observational Tsunamis Program requirement PTWC Network RAWINSONDE Spotter TAO • NOSIA-II: NOAA Observing Systems Integrated Analysis – the capability Pacific Tsunami Upper-Air Spotter/Skywarn Tropical Atmosphere Warning Center Sea Rawinsonde Network Volunteer Program Ocean Array NOAA uses to document and analyze relationship(s) between/among Level Network observing systems and their impacts on the Agency’s diverse services and scientific objectives VOS Voluntary Observing Ship

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NWS Leveraged Systems Challenges

ADM-Aeolus COCORAHS ACE AWOS CMB GSN Atmospheric Dynamics Community Advanced Composition Automated Weather Canadian Moored Global Seismographic Mission – Aeolus Collaborative Rain, Explorer Solar Observing System Buoys Networkz Doppler Lidar Hail, & Snow Network • Understanding NWS’ and NOAA’s wide ranging and

ICPSN MDCRS/WVSS NSNSN ISN NED NLDN evolving needs for observations pertaining to the full International Cable Meteorological Data NOAA-Supported International Seismic USGS National National Lightning Data Pressure Sensor Collection and Reporting National Seismic Networks System/Water Vapor Elevation Database Network range of mission areas Networks Sensing System Networks

RAWS ONSN STEREO Solar • Refining methods for developing and documenting Interagency Remove SGN SNOTEL Other Seismic State TErrestrial RElations Automated Weather Stream Gauge Network Snowpack Telemetry Networks Observatory Stations observation requirements to support mission areas

TAMDAR TDWR VGLD COSMIC CWOP • Establishing methods for gap analysis to facilitate Tropospheric Airborne WMO-AMDAR Terminal Doppler Vaisala Global Constellation Observing Citizen Weather Meteorological Data Aircraft Met Data Relay System for , Weather Radar Lightning Dataset Observer Program Reporting Ionosphere, and funding priorities

GPS-Met DSCOVR GOES Global Positioning JPSS NLDN Solar Data & Geostationary • Maintaining current while exploring new observing System Integrated Joint Polar Satellite National Lightning Data NOAA Aircraft Coronal Mass Ejection Operational Imagery Deep Space Precipitable Water System Network Environmental Satellite Climate Observatory Sensor capabilities amidst funding challenges

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