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National Weather ServiceNational Weather ServiceStrategic Plan 2010Strategic Plan 2010 --20252025
Jack HayesNOAA Assistant Administrator for Weather Services, and
National Weather Service Director
Norman, OklahomaAugust 10, 2009
Global & National ChallengesGlobal & National Challenges� Impacts of climate change
� Increased vulnerability to weather, water, climate, and other environmental hazards
� Increased vulnerability to solar activity
� Large-scale impacts of droughts, floods, chemical makeup of oceans and rivers
NWS VisionNWS Vision
A safer, more informed and productive society where environmental knowledge empowers the Nation to makethe best decisions
� Services focused on impacts
� Earth system forecasts
� Data, information, andknowledge
Key Outcomes for 2025Key Outcomes for 2025
� Loss of life, displacement from high impact events reduced
� NWS data and information contribute to a national competitive advantage
� Environmental data, prediction capabilities, and decision support services integral components to:
� Managing and sustaining healthy ecosystems and communities
� Understanding and living with climate change
� Minimizing risks to our national security
2025: Decision Support2025: Decision SupportProviding the right information, at the right Providing the right information, at the right
time, to the right peopletime, to the right people
Key Objectives & Strategies� More accurate forecasts and increased lead
times for warnings
� Watches, warnings and advisories that increase responsiveness using social science
� Direct, interpretive forecaster support for .govs
� Readily accessible, user-centric data and information
� Levels of uncertainty included in forecasts and warnings
� Partnership and collaboration an integral component
2025: Services2025: ServicesBroadening service areas to address global and Broadening service areas to address global and
national challengesnational challenges
Key Objectives & Strategies� High-impact weather
� Space weather
� Integrated water resources
� Human health
� Ecosystems
� Climate
� Transportation
� Energy
2025: Partnerships2025: PartnershipsSharing assets, skills, and capabilities to meet Sharing assets, skills, and capabilities to meet
national needsnational needs
Key Objectives & Strategies
� Use of new, innovative dissemination and outreach methods
� Coordinated environmental literacy and weather safety campaigns
� Increased focus on leveraging new science and technology outside of NOAA
� New tools and applications to link environmental data and information
� Proactive collaboration with private sector
2025: Science & Technology2025: Science & TechnologyExploiting stateExploiting state --ofof --thethe --art S&T to support art S&T to support
evolving services and information deliveryevolving services and information delivery
Key Objectives & Strategies� Expanded, integrated and more robust
observations
� Integrated Earth system models
� Next generation forecasting and decision support system
� Data integration and interoperability
� AWIPS II…and beyond
� Communication / collaboration tools –onsite, offsite, virtually
2025: Data & Information2025: Data & InformationLinking data and systems from all sources to Linking data and systems from all sources to
aid decisionaid decision --makingmaking
Key Objectives & Strategies
� Internet as cornerstone of operating model
� Common standards to share and reuse data
� Integrated and interoperable systems
� Decision assistance tools
� 4-dimensional weather information database
� Mesonets; WIGOS
� Common operating pictures among partners
Key Findings ofKey Findings ofNRC Report on NoNNRC Report on NoN
� U.S. capabilities are uncoordinated
� Overarching national strategy needed
� Build infrastructure for data exchange
� Fill data gaps
� Spatial
� Temporal
� Elements
Proposed NoN Enterprise Proposed NoN Enterprise ApproachApproach
� Build the “plumbing”
� Metadata
� Policies
� IT capabilities
� Data management
� Communications
� Services
� Develop national standards/protocols
Proposed NoN Enterprise Proposed NoN Enterprise ApproachApproach
� Address Highest priority observing gaps
� Develop framework for National Mesonet
� Height of PBL
� Soil moisture & temperature profiles
� High-resolution verticalhumidity profiles
� Air quality measurements
� Urban, coastal & mountainousregions also priorities
Proposed NoN Enterprise Proposed NoN Enterprise ApproachApproach
�Collaborate with partners
� OFCM…Committee forIntegrated Observing Systems
� AMS Ad Hoc Working Groupon a Nationwide ObservingNetwork of Networks
NoN ChallengesNoN Challenges� Achieve Weather Enterprise consensus
� Coordinating entity
� Policy
� Data standards
� Protocols
� Services
� Overcome barriers limiting participation—private,academic, federal agencies
� Proprietary restrictions
� Complexity and competing interests
� Resources