From Technology Innovation To Scientific Stewardship Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., U.S. Navy (Ret.) Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans & Atmosphere WVHTC Foundation Roundtable April 13, 2007 NOAA’s Linkages to West Virginia

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3 How do we carry out our Mission? People/ Research Aircraft & Ships Satellites…

From Technology Innovation To Scientific Stewardship: NOAA's Linkages to West Virginia 4 NOAA in West Virginia NOAA has Federal Employees and several contractors providing support and services to NOAA National Weather Service Forecast Office, Charleston National Weather Service Back up Supercomputer, Fairmont NOAA Research, Air Resources Laboratory and Canaan Valley Institute Partnerships Climate Data Modernization Program Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System

From Technology Innovation To Scientific Stewardship: NOAA's Linkages to West Virginia 5 Aquaculture and West Virginia Commerce Secretary Gutierrez visited a WV fish hatchery yesterday, this hatchery produces safe seafood for U.S. consumers U.S. has an $8 billion seafood trade deficit 81% of the seafood consumed in the U.S. is imported and 40% of those imports are farmed Need more U.S. aquaculture, both coastal and inland, to meet growing demand for seafood NOAA investments in aquaculture are coastal and offshore in the open ocean Offshore aquaculture cages, raised for inspection. Kona, Hawaii

From Technology Innovation To Scientific Stewardship: NOAA's Linkages to West Virginia 6 Department of Commerce activities in West Virginia The Department of Commerce and EDA also are proud to have partnered with various organizations throughout West Virginia to promote economic development. Since 2001, EDA has awarded 120 investments totaling almost $48.2 million in West Virginia. These investments are predicted to lead to over $786 million in private sector investments which are expected to generate nearly 9,700 new jobs, and be a major catalyst in transforming West Virginia's economy.

From Technology Innovation To Scientific Stewardship: NOAA's Linkages to West Virginia 7 Weather and climate related events affect 1/3 of the GNP, including every segment of our economy NOAA relies on supercomputers to provide the nation with continuous up-to-date forecasts Forecasts are based on complex weather/climate models, requiring intensive calculations Back up system in Fairmont fulfilled its mission during February 16, 2007 incident… NWS Fairmont Back Up Supercomputer

From Technology Innovation To Scientific Stewardship: NOAA's Linkages to West Virginia 8 Climate Monitoring NOAA’S Air Resources Laboratory: Air quality research and monitoring Acid deposition; nitrogen deposition Ambient ozone levels Acid deposition: Significant source of acidification in watersheds; excess nitrogen may cause a shift in natural balance of plant and animal life, leading to depleted levels of oxygen in lakes and streams Ozone: A powerful oxidizer, can damage plant and lung tissue Climate Station in WV Elkins, Canaan Valley Resort State Park (Cabins Area)

From Technology Innovation To Scientific Stewardship: NOAA's Linkages to West Virginia 9 NOAA Air Resources Laboratory Canaan Valley Institute Research Collaboration National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP-AIRMoN) Global Energy Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) FLUXNET Climate Reference Network (NOAA-CRN) Atmospheric Mercury Research Periodic Intensive Field Studies

From Technology Innovation To Scientific Stewardship: NOAA's Linkages to West Virginia 10 Climate Reporting Through History Jefferson’s Weather Observations July 1776 Ozonesonde Launch— South Pole April 2005 Cities at Risk of Rising Seas Associated Press –March 28, 2007 This was world's warmest recorded winter Reuters – March 16, 2007 Scientists: Earth Could Heat Up for Centuries Good Morning America – February 2, 2007 Global Warming Man-Made, Will Continue Associated Press – February 1, 2007 El Nino Visualized December 1997 CarbonTracker March 2007

From Technology Innovation To Scientific Stewardship: NOAA's Linkages to West Virginia 11 Climate Data Modernization Program (CDMP) Preserving historical weather and climate records electronically Enables first-time access by scientific community Allows data to be used within climate assessments Preserves global records that may have been lost forever if left on paper WV–a key partner in CDMP 1842 Hourly Weather Data from Washington, DC Imaged & Digitized through CDMP

From Technology Innovation To Scientific Stewardship: NOAA's Linkages to West Virginia 12 WV & CDMP: Results with Impact Data Management Activities Preserving and rescuing historical records Ingesting newly observed data  Processing data (Quality Control)  Maintaining a long term and secure archive for data Maintaining metadata (station location changes, sensor calibration coefficients, data formats, many others) Providing Access to data collected West Virginia partnership activities

From Technology Innovation To Scientific Stewardship: NOAA's Linkages to West Virginia 13 Next Generation Satellites Satellites are critical to NOAA’s current and future ability to fulfill our Mission GOES-R:NPOESS: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System

From Technology Innovation To Scientific Stewardship: NOAA's Linkages to West Virginia 14 Future of Data Archiving New satellites will generate a 10-fold increase in the amount of information seen today. Information must be archived in order to be useful to society Requires a concerted effort of data archiving: Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS)  An advanced electronic library of NOAA’s next generation environmental satellite data. Archive growth Major systems archive growth

From Technology Innovation To Scientific Stewardship: NOAA's Linkages to West Virginia 15 The Future of Environmental Data Access NOAA is the world’s repository for environmental information CLASS is critical to the ongoing success of NOAA’s data centers and access to NOAA satellite data: National Climatic Data Center National Geophysical Data Center National Oceanic Data Center National Coastal Data Development Center Companies in West Virginia provide CLASS development support since 2002

From Technology Innovation To Scientific Stewardship: NOAA's Linkages to West Virginia 16 Benefits of Innovation & Stewardship Provide the right information, in the right format, at the right time, to the right people, to make the right decisions.

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From Technology Innovation To Scientific Stewardship: NOAA's Linkages to West Virginia 19 Collection of precipitation for chemical analysis Measurement of precipitation amount Canaan Valley AIRMoN Wet Deposition Site (measures wet deposition of major ions, e.g., “acid rain”)

From Technology Innovation To Scientific Stewardship: NOAA's Linkages to West Virginia 20 GEWEX and FLUXNET short-term intensive experiment measuring ozone fluxes Canaan Valley GEWEX and FLUXNET Site (measures surface energy balance and surface exchange of CO2 and water vapor, relevant for climate change research)

From Technology Innovation To Scientific Stewardship: NOAA's Linkages to West Virginia 21 Measurement of precipitation Measurement of temperature Canaan Valley Climate Reference Network (CRN) Site (benchmark station measuring temperature, relative humidity and precipitation, providing data for climate change research)

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From Technology Innovation To Scientific Stewardship: NOAA's Linkages to West Virginia 24 Underground bunker at GEWEX-FLUXNET-AIRMoN site where on-site chemical analysis is done

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From Technology Innovation To Scientific Stewardship: NOAA's Linkages to West Virginia 26 Production Management Branch Government responsible for job flow IBM responsible for providing 99% System Availability System Administration staff On-site repairs Software support (Operating system, Cluster System Management, file system, job scheduler, compilers) Weather and Climate forecast codes Developed by the Government Performance tuning by IBM NWS Supercomputing System: “Frost” and “Snow”

From Technology Innovation To Scientific Stewardship: NOAA's Linkages to West Virginia 27 High Performance Computing Technology Gaithersburg and Fairmont Operations 14 Tflops Linpack sustained per system 144 Power 5+ Nodes 2,304 processors (16 per node), 1.9 gigahertz speed) 4,608 gigabytes of shared memory 150 terabytes of disk space 75 terabyte tape archive

From Technology Innovation To Scientific Stewardship: NOAA's Linkages to West Virginia 28 Product Generation Performance Highly Dependable & Reliable