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Planned product improvements for the NOAA Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS)
Patricia A. Miller, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and D. Helms, M. F. Barth, L. A. Benjamin, R. S. Collander, and T. Kent
The NOAA Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS) is a
NOAA Research system, developed at the Earth System Research
Laboratory (ESRL), that serves the meteorological community by
supporting observation collection integration, quality control, and
distribution of thousands of NOAA and non-NOAA observations, including
over 60,000 surface mesonet stations from local, state, and federal
agencies, and private networks, as well as upper-air datasets
including multi-agency wind profiler and automated, commercial
aircraft observations. The mesonet database includes Road Weather
Information System observations from state Departments of
Transportation, as well as real-time observations from the Remote
Automated Weather Stations (RAWS) network, the Cooperative Mesonets in
the Western U.S. (MesoWest) network, the WeatherBug and UrbaNet
networks operated by AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc., the Citizen
Weather Observing Program (CWOP) network, and many others. MADIS
receives these observations in different formats, units, and time
stamps, and provides them in a single uniform database. Additionally,
MADIS supplies data providers with quality control and station
monitoring information to assist in their maintenance activities and
to enhance and promote the mutual benefits of public/private data
sharing. Organizations receiving MADIS data feeds include National
Weather Service (NWS) forecast offices, the NWS National Centers for
Environmental Prediction, the National Center for Atmospheric
Research, and many major universities and commercial weather
businesses.
In 2007, the NOAA Research Council and NOAA Transition Board rated
MADIS as one of NOAA's highest priority research-to-operations
transition projects. Overall plans for the transition include the
implementation of MADIS real-time capabilities at the NWS and the
transfer of existing MADIS saved datasets and future archive
responsibilities to the NESDIS National Climatic Data Center. The NWS
transition approach will consist of an integrated NWS
Telecommunications (TOC) and National Centers for Environmental
Prediction Central Operations (NCO) distributed system. Initial
Operating Capability (IOC) for the NWS MADIS system is scheduled
for 2010. ESRL will remain as the primary MADIS Research and
Development organization, and will host a research-to-operations test
environment facility within the ESRL/GSD Central Facility.
This paper will provide a status update on the existing MADIS system,
and will also cover planned product improvements and upgrades to MADIS
datasets and services, including those necessary to support 1) the
Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), 2) the National
Surface Weather Observing System (NSWOS), 3) the modernized Historic
Climate Network (HCN-M), 4) the Next Generation NOAA Profiler Network
(NGNPN), and 5) the National Mesonet. Companion papers, by D. Helms
et al., J.C. Edwards et al., and M.F. Barth et al. will provide
additional information on the MADIS transition to NOAA operations,
upgraded MADIS web services in support of NextGen, and updated
observational metadata in support of the National Mesonet.
Session 14A, Challenges in Data Access, Distribution, and Use including, but not limited to, issues raised in the National Academy of Sciences report Observing Weather and Climate from the Ground Up - Part I
Thursday, 21 January 2010, 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, B217
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