1. MyWIDA GEN II Overview Dr. Richard Shirkey
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MyWIDA GEN II Overview
Dr. Richard Shirkey
Team Leader: Weather Risk Awareness Team
, DSN
Weather Risk Awareness Team
Jim Brandt Leelinda Dawson
Terry Jameson Jeff Johnson
Steve Kirby Dr. Dave Marlin
Richard Padilla Dave Sauter
Jeff Swanson Richard Szymber
Subing Zeng
WIDA 2012
13-15 March
Approved For Public Release Distribution Unlimited

2. IWEDA (Integrated Weather Effects Decision Aid)
History
IWEDA (Integrated Weather Effects Decision Aid)
Initially developed by ARL for the Integrated Meteorological System (IMETS) circa 1990
IWEDA v2
minor improvements
accredited AF rule set
accredited & extended Army rule set 2006
Centralized Rules Data Base (CRDB) established
IWEDA v3
DCGS-A weather
available on the Joint Environmental Toolkit (~FY12)
mission oriented
highly detailed
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3. History (cont’d) MyWIDA v1 MyWIDA v2 laptop version of IWEDA v2 2010
available now
MyWIDA v2
web-service or stand-alone
available end of FY12
integrated Atmospheric Impacts Routing (AIR)*
Excel formatted rules
* FY13 availability
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4. Threshold criteria for MyWIDA rules
Compares critical thresholds (rules) against forecast for determination of weather impacts on various systems (weapons, sensors, personnel, sub-systems)
Threshold criteria for MyWIDA rules
Original rules contained in the CRDB
military systems FOUO
Versions under development
Dept. of Homeland Security
Civilian
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5. GEN II – MyWIDA v2 Addressing new needs Portable Flexible
Providing a Customized Capability to Determine Critical Weather Impacts for Field Operations
Portable
Web Service / Web App
Flexible
customizable
rules
Excel format
CRDB (available on AKO)
user input allowed and saved locally
forecast availability
AFWA / GFS or WRF • NCEP / WRF
AFWA / WRE-N* • DPG / 4DWX
AFCCC / Climatological* • FNMOC / NOGAPS*
UKMO*
3D/4D visualizations via Google Earth
New apps such as ground/aviation weather routing tools (AIR)
Data formats aligning with industry standards (XML, KML, etc.)
* FY13 availability
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6. MyWIDA v2.1 Web Services
Area Of Interest Service (AOIS) – Allows user to request forecast gridded weather model data for a specific region and time duration.
Threshold Evaluation Service (TES) – Evaluates an environmental threshold (e.g., wind speed > 15 kts) against a grid of environmental data and returns the results of 0 (false) or 1 (true) and are eventually translated into red/amber/green
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7. MyWIDA v2.1 Web Services
Rules Evaluation Service (RES) – Evaluates a system rule (one or more thresholds) against a grid of environmental data and returns the impact level (e.g., marginal or severe)
Impact Overlay Service (IOS) – Creates a Keyhole Markup Language (KML) string from a grid of impact level(s) for display via a map server (e.g., Google Earth, OpenLayers, etc.) in 2D or 3D
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8. Area Of Interest Service (AOIS)
-20.0
-78.0
-10.0
-60.0
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9. Area Of Interest Service (AOIS)
3-02
3-02
-20.0
-78.0
-10.0
-60.0
3-02
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10. MyWIDA v2.1
Application GUI
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11. MyWIDA v2.1 3D View
3D Visualization of Impacts for 2 layers via Google Earth
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12. MyWIDA: GEN II Customization
Some situations/equipment require forecast resolution not currently available
MyWIDA v2 will allow a user to “fat finger” input data
Allows for real-time response
Can be supplied with custom-tailored rule sets for special users/applications (e.g., Aerostat, UBE, IED, etc. rules)
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13. MyWIDA: A step beyond IWEDA
Summation
MyWIDA: A step beyond IWEDA
Web Service / Web App
Weather Routing Tool (Aviation + Ground)
Rules in Excel format
ability to modify/add rules & assets
ability to save rules locally
user defined thresholds GUI
optional accesses of CRDB
Rules weighting scheme
JMBL pull & ingest forecast grids
WRF, GFS, WRE-N, 4DWX, NOGAPS, UKMO
Multiple users
Multiple AOIs
V&V via Network Integration Evaluation