The Hazard Services program improves upon the current NWS hazardous weather product generation workflow by integrating these currently disconnected software tools into a common interface for issuing timely and information-centric watch, warning, and advisory products for all hazards. Built upon a Java and highly-configurable python code base, Hazard Services also contains a recommender framework that serves as a bridge for the rapid transition of promising physical and social science concepts into NWS operations. This framework can ingest and process data from a multitude of sources (i.e., sensors/instruments, models, etc.) to help mitigate the firehose of information a forecaster receives through the ever-increasing volume of observational and model data received. Hazard Services also provides the flexibility to produce multiple text product formats on-the-fly for simultaneous distribution through multiple channels targeting unique audiences.
The Hazard Services program is a joint effort among NOAA/OAR/ESRL/Global Systems Division (GSD), Raytheon Omaha, and the AWIPS-2 Program Office. 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 provide the audience with an overview of the Hazard Services program and summarize its current progress towards NWS operations with an emphasis on the post-initial operating capability development ongoing at GSD.
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