Sandy Supplemental for Alaska - Update Presented by Tom Heinrichs University of Alaska Fairbanks Geographic Information Network of Alaska

Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013 Improve and streamline disaster assistance associated with Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy and other purposes Deploy observing systems, develop global modeling, improve storm prediction and communication, obtain high performance computing Total program is $74.8 M

More Channels in NWS Alaska’s AWIPS VIIRS menu before SandyVIIRS menu after Sandy

Many More Channels in AWIPS

Objective Mitigate the risk of a data gap between Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) and Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) Deliver near real-time data (NRT) from JPSS satellites to the National Weather Service (NWS)

Partners NESDIS: Larry Ledlow, Keith Amburgey NWS: Mike Johnson, Carven Scott, SOOs, ITOs CIMSS, CIRA, SPoRT UAF: GINA, Research Computing Services, Alaska Satellite Facility (Gwen Bryson, PM) And many more… Thank you!

UAF Agile Scrum Team Jay Cable System Analyst Jeremiah Dabney System Administrator Will Fisher Lead Developer Scott Macfarlane Research Programmer Greg Wirth System Analyst Carl Dierking Science Liaison Eric Stevens Science Liaison Chris Watson System Administrator

Current Operational Infrastructure 3.6 m antenna X-band 3.0 m antenna X, L, S-band Subset of new hardware Subset of processing FCDAS (Gilmore) UAF (Big Dog) Anchorage (Sand Lake) Processing Seven Sensors -VIIRS -CRiS -ATMS -OMPS Raw data archive New hardware Enhanced Processing -VIIRS -MODIS -AVHRR -OLS -METOP New hardware New Processor -VIIRS -MODIS -AVHRR -OLS -METOP -AVHRR -MODIS -OLS

Expanded Infrastructure 3.6 m antenna X-band 3.0 m antenna X, L, S-band Subset of new hardware Subset of processing FCDAS (Gilmore) UAF (Big Dog) Processing Seven Sensors -VIIRS -CRiS -ATMS -OMPS Raw data archive New hardware Enhanced Processing -VIIRS -MODIS -AVHRR -OLS -METOP New hardware New Processor -VIIRS -MODIS -AVHRR -OLS -METOP -AVHRR -MODIS -OLS Anchorage (Sand Lake)

Implementation Schedule May m Antenna ordered from Orbital August 2014 Antenna fabrication and testing September 2014 UAF Processing Hardware Procured FCDAS Processing Hardware Procured Antenna installation awarded to UAF October- November 2014 Initial Hardware and Processor Deployment SNPP data archive and product delivery to AWIPSII February- March 2015 Enhanced LDM Framework at UAF Deploy LDM framework at FCDAS MODIS product(s) development April 2015 AVHRR product(s) development DMSP product(s) development May-July 2015 Antenna installation complete at FCDAS MODIS & AVHRR product(s) to AWIPSII UAF Cloud Compute Deployed August- September 2015 End-to-end production monitoring MetOP & DMSP product(s) to AWIPSII Deploy equipment to Anchorage Verification and validation

NOAA Research Program: Sandy Supplemental June 29, 2016 Sprint #1: Initial Hardware and Processor Deployment October 6-November 14, UAF and FCDAS Processing System equipment arrives. October 12, UAF equipment racked in Butro. Integrated SNPP processing with configuration management, processing database scheme, and queuing management solution on dev. November 10, 2014.

NOAA Research Program: Sandy Supplemental June 29, 2016 Sprint #2: Initial Hardware Deployment at FCDAS January 6-February 13, SSEC_AWIPS_VIIRS-AK_1KM_SVDNB_ _ Three Fairbanks contractors visit FCDAS for Sandy Antenna Construction Pre-Bid meeting. January 13, FCDAS Staff prep power and cooling and place equipment rack. GINA Staff install equipment. January 7-8, First test products created on the UAF Sandy Processing System and displayed AWIPS2 test environment. February Proposed Memorandum of Understanding

NOAA Research Program: Sandy Supplemental June 29, 2016 Sprint #3: Antenna Installation March 23-April 17,

NOAA Research Program: Sandy Supplemental June 29, 2016 Sprint #4: Operational Processing April 20-May 15, UAF Sandy Processing Stack promoted to operations on April 28, Final equipment purchases scoped -UAF HPC Cloud Compute -FCDAS Networking -Sand Lake Arctic Test Bed 3.Sandy Processor Development -Integrate MODIS processing -Development for AVHRR 4.Developed MoU with NWS 5.Sand Lake Site Visit and NWS Meeting, May 15, Represented Sandy at 2015 NOAA Satellite Conference 7.NWS site visit scheduled for July 7-8,

NOAA Research Program: Sandy Supplemental June 29, Sprint #5: Network & Antenna Integration June 15-July 24, 2015 Equipment Procurements -UAF Cloud Compute - ordered -Networking equipment - ordered -FCDAS Operations Terminal - ordered and configured -Sand Lake Equipment – ordered Sandy Dog Antenna Integration -Complete networking – completed July 6, Swap S-band feed for X-, L-, S-band feed – scheduled July 8, System dashboard for FCDAS Operators Sandy Processor Development -MODIS operational -AVHRR operational Sandy Product Guide creation Wisconsin CIMSS visit July 21-23, 2015

Three training sessions were held at FCDAS to train Operators on the new Sandy Dog antenna and Sandy Dashboard. GINA developed, designed, and distributed ten product “Quick Guides” to NWS Office’s in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau. Screens from the Sandy Dashboard operating at FCDAS. This interface provides FCDAS Operators and GINA the ability to monitor data capture, processing, and distribution to LDM. Wrap up activities: Training, Documentation, and Software/Systems Loose Ends

UAF Site Accomplishments SANDY SUPPLEMENTAL Process Input/ Output Existing System/Pred efined Process Direct Access Storage Archive/ Storage Start/Stop KEY OPERATIONAL REPORTED PROGRESS Raw, L0, L1, AWIPSII Products GIS Ready Products RAW Data Sandy Processor RF Cloud Compute/ PI Sandbox Cloud Compute/ PI Sandbox AWIPSII Products Rolling Storage GINA Archive Primary Customer: NWS Forecasters Primary Customer: NWS Forecasters GINA Archive SNPP Terra Aqua Gilmore RAW Data GINA’s Feeder AWIPSII Local Data Manager (LDM) AWIPSII Product Lifecycle UAF Sandy Processor collect and processes: SNPP, AQUA, TERRA, METOP-B, NOAA 15/18/19 UAF development, test, and integration equipment installed and configured

FCDAS Site Accomplishments SANDY SUPPLEMENTAL Process Input/ Output Existing System/Pred efined Process Direct Access Storage Archive/ Storage Start/Stop KEY OPERATIONAL REPORTED PROGRESS RA W Data RF AVHRRDMSP MetOP RF SNPP Terra Aqua MetOP RA W Data Raw, L0, L1, AWIPSII Products Raw, L0, L1, AWIPSII Products Sandy Processor AWIPSII Products Rolling Archive (Data held ~1 wk, to use new storage) Rolling Archive (Data held ~1 wk, to use new storage) AWIPSII Local Data Manager (LDM) GINA Archive Primary Customer: NWS Forecasters Primary Customer: NWS Forecasters FCDAS Operator training on antenna and Sandy Dashboard FCDAS Sandy Processor collects and processes: SNPP, AQUA, TERRA, and MetOP-B

PI* Sandbox Raw, L0, L1, AWIPSII Products GIS Ready Products RAW Data Sandy Processor RF Cloud Compute/ PI Sandbox Cloud Compute/ PI Sandbox AWIPSII Products Rolling Storage GINA Archive Primary Customer: NWS Forecasters Primary Customer: NWS Forecasters GINA Archive SNPP Terra Aqua Gilmore RAW Data GINA’s Feeder AWIPSII Local Data Manager (LDM) AWIPSII Product Lifecycle Access to same data streams from both antennas in near-real- time Processing next to production systems Can provision VM environments for PI’s that are the same as production systems Direct hop onto LDM and NWS Alaska *Principal Investigator

More Channels in NWS Alaska’s AWIPS VIIRS menu before SandyVIIRS menu after Sandy December 7,

Many More Channels in AWIPS December 7,

Demo Demonstration by Will Fisher, UAF-GINA