Hazard Services: Progress Report for 2018

The Hazard Services program is a joint effort between NOAA/OAR/ESRL/Global Systems Division (GSD), Raytheon Omaha, and the AWIPS-2 Program Office. A goal of this program is to streamline National Weather Service (NWS) operations by integrating currently disconnected software tools into a common interface for issuing timely and information-centric watch, warning, and advisory products for all hazards. The Hazard Services development team at GSD has a broad responsibility to assist in the transfer of existing product generation workflows into this interface along with establishing and executing a scientific vision for the future of decision support services and alert dissemination protocols.

This presentation will summarize the overall project progress and provide a synopsis of the previous year’s accomplishments by the GSD Hazard Services team on (1) efforts supporting the initial operating capability hydrology products, (2) post-initial operating capability work towards creating winter weather, marine, and aviation products, (3) the incorporation of new messaging formats, such as Common Alerting Protocol and NWS Hazards Simplification, (4) software testing and evaluation, (5) design and creation of decision assistance products from the recommender framework, (6) endeavors towards an integrated hazard services platform, and (7) issuing probabilistic convective alerts as part of the Forecasting a Continuum of Environmental Threats (FACETs) initiative.