Dr. Richard ShirkeyTeam Leader: Weather Risk Awareness Team575-678-5470, DSN 258-5470richard.shirkey@us.army.milMyWIDA GEN II OverviewApproved For Public Release Distribution UnlimitedUNCLASSIFIEDUNCLASSIFIEDWeather Risk Awareness TeamJim BrandtLeelinda DawsonTerry JamesonJeff JohnsonSteve KirbyDr. Dave MarlinRichard PadillaDave SauterJeff SwansonRichard Szymber Subing ZengWIDA 201213-15 MarchU.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command

HistoryIWEDA (Integrated Weather Effects Decision Aid)Initially developed by ARL for the Integrated Meteorological System (IMETS) circa 1990 IWEDA v2 minor improvements accredited AF rule set accredited & extended Army rule set 2006 Centralized Rules Data Base (CRDB) established IWEDA v3 DCGS-A weather available on the Joint Environmental Toolkit (~FY12) mission oriented highly detailedUNCLASSIFIED

History (contd)MyWIDA v1 laptop version of IWEDA v2 2010 available nowMyWIDA v2 web-service or stand-alone available end of FY12 integrated Atmospheric Impacts Routing (AIR)* Excel formatted rules

UNCLASSIFIED* FY13 availabilityCompares critical thresholds (rules) against forecast for determination of weather impacts on various systems (weapons, sensors, personnel, sub-systems)Threshold criteria for MyWIDA rulesRULES

Original rules contained in the CRDB military systems FOUO Versions under development Dept. of Homeland Security CivilianUNCLASSIFIED

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GEN II MyWIDA v2Addressing new needs Portable Web Service / Web App Flexible customizable rules Excel format CRDB (available on AKO) user input allowed and saved locally forecast availability AFWA / GFS or WRF NCEP / WRF AFWA / WRE-N* DPG / 4DWX AFCCC / Climatological* FNMOC / NOGAPS* UKMO* 3D/4D visualizations via Google Earth New apps such as ground/aviation weather routing tools (AIR) Data formats aligning with industry standards (XML, KML, etc.)Providing a Customized Capability to Determine Critical Weather Impacts for Field Operations

UNCLASSIFIED* FY13 availability

Area Of Interest Service (AOIS) Allows user to request forecast gridded weather model data for a specific region and time duration.

Threshold Evaluation Service (TES) Evaluates an environmental threshold (e.g., wind speed > 15 kts) against a grid of environmental data and returns the results of 0 (false) or 1 (true) and are eventually translated into red/amber/green

MyWIDA v2.1 Web ServicesUNCLASSIFIED6

Rules Evaluation Service (RES) Evaluates a system rule (one or more thresholds) against a grid of environmental data and returns the impact level (e.g., marginal or severe)

Impact Overlay Service (IOS) Creates a Keyhole Markup Language (KML) string from a grid of impact level(s) for display via a map server (e.g., Google Earth, OpenLayers, etc.) in 2D or 3D

MyWIDA v2.1 Web ServicesUNCLASSIFIED7

-20.0-78.0-10.0-60.0Area Of Interest Service (AOIS)UNCLASSIFIED

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3-023-02-20.0-78.0-10.0-60.0Area Of Interest Service (AOIS)UNCLASSIFIED

MyWIDA v2.1UNCLASSIFIED

Application GUI10

MyWIDA v2.1 3D View

UNCLASSIFIED3D Visualization of Impacts for 2 layers via Google Earth11

Some situations/equipment require forecast resolution not currently available MyWIDA v2 will allow a user to fat finger input data Allows for real-time response

Can be supplied with custom-tailored rule sets for special users/applications (e.g., Aerostat, UBE, IED, etc. rules)MyWIDA: GEN IICustomizationUNCLASSIFIED12

SummationMyWIDA: A step beyond IWEDA

Web Service / Web App Weather Routing Tool (Aviation + Ground) Rules in Excel format ability to modify/add rules & assets ability to save rules locally user defined thresholds GUI optional accesses of CRDB Rules weighting scheme JMBL pull & ingest forecast grids WRF, GFS, WRE-N, 4DWX, NOGAPS, UKMO Multiple users Multiple AOIs V&V via Network Integration Evaluation