April 2002 MDL Collaboration Workshop – 29 Sept Integrated Hazards Information Services 1 Integrated Hazard Information Services Tom LeFebvre Global Systems Division Earth System Research Lab

April 2002 MDL Collaboration Workshop – 29 Sept Integrated Hazards Information Services What is IHIS? Originally named Next Generation Warning Tool (NGWT) Mission: Integrate three hazard product generation systems used by NWS –WARNGEN –Graphical Hazards Generator (GHG) –River Pro (Hydrological hazards) 2

April 2002 MDL Collaboration Workshop – 29 Sept Integrated Hazards Information Services Integrate Three Tools 3 WARNGEN (< 1 hour) GHG (Hours-Days) RiverPro (Days) IHIS

April 2002 MDL Collaboration Workshop – 29 Sept Integrated Hazards Information Services IHIS Workshop GSD hosted IHIS Workshop in late October 2009 Diverse set of Participants: –NWS – Managers, Forecasters –Software Developers –Partners including: Emergency Managers Private Meteorologists ( Accuweather, TV ) Urban Drainage and Flood Control Social Scientists 4

April 2002 MDL Collaboration Workshop – 29 Sept Integrated Hazards Information Services Workshop Results Generated many requirements Developed a “strawman” user interface Two-way collaboration – Impact awareness Transition current product-based to a decision- support paradigm Solution: AWIPS II and web-browser interfaces to view and edit hazard information 5

April 2002 MDL Collaboration Workshop – 29 Sept Integrated Hazards Information Services Strategy - Web Application 6 Build prototype web application first Make web app available to all team members via internet Gather feedback -> Refine requirements Use requirements/feedback gathered for CAVE application development

April 2002 MDL Collaboration Workshop – 29 Sept Integrated Hazards Information Services 7 First cut at Tornado Warning Prototype Pathway – what it is A starting point based on workshop results An avenue to get rapid feedback from forecasters on GUI features to be built in AWIPS II Cave Proof of concept platform for exploring: – Integrating WarnGen, GHG, RiverPro into a common interface – Web technology as a way to build prototypes for rapid development – Providing two-way communication with partners via a common interface 7

April 2002 AWIPS II Extended – Data Delivery Paradigm – April 14, 2010 First cut at Tornado Prototype Pathway – what it isn’t Not an end product Not an operational system -- functionality is limited e.g. Hazard Database is read-only canned data Short-fused (WarnGen) tracking is still being developed Tornado Warning Text Formatter ~70% complete (still needs tracking information) Limited GIS layers 8

April 2002 MDL Collaboration Workshop – 29 Sept Integrated Hazards Information Services IHIS Web Application 9

April 2002 MDL Collaboration Workshop – 29 Sept Integrated Hazards Information Services 10 Next Steps Rapid Prototype Process – Feedback from listserver – Recorded on FeatureRequests Wiki page – Prioritized by IWT – Tasked for releases – 6-8 week cycles Evolve to long-fused and hydro Possible Workshop Two-way collaboration – Social Science study – Partner prototype pathway 10

April 2002 MDL Collaboration Workshop – 29 Sept Integrated Hazards Information Services 11 IHIS and Iris IHIS IRIS --Integrating WarnGen GHG RiverPro On AWIPSII --NWS Hazards Database Creating Database of Partner Information: Spotter reports Twitter, NWSChat... Data Sharing Web Portal For Hazard Information Overlap: IHIS: web2py/JS Ext Iris: Java/JS qooxdoo Workshop requirement: Common look and feel for partners/forecasters Collaboration: If not code, data sharing and web portal design.

April 2002 MDL Collaboration Workshop – 29 Sept Integrated Hazards Information Services 12 NWSWarn 12

April 2002 MDL Collaboration Workshop – 29 Sept Integrated Hazards Information Services 13 Collaborations 13 Development organizations: Iris, NSSL, MDL, NCEP NWS Hydrologists and Forecasters AWIPS II NCLADT Raytheon Developers Univ. of Wisconsin SAGE Project COMET-funded Univ. South Florida team NWSWarn? SSWIM Social Scientists – funding an ethnography study of Partners (EM's, broadcasters...)

April 2002 MDL Collaboration Workshop – 29 Sept Integrated Hazards Information Services 14 Summary Demonstrated that web technology is a viable option for initial rapid prototype development and providing two-way communication between forecasters and partners Developing plans to begin Client interface in Cave with re-used Server code (eventually as a plug-in) Collaboration is critical for IHIS success 14