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Public Information Statement, Comment Request
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
1100 AM EDT Tue May 31 2011
TO: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
-NOAA Weather Wire Service
-Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
-NOAAPORT
Other NWS partners and NWS employees
FROM: Mark Paese
Director, Office of Operational Systems
SUBJECT: NWS Seeking Comments on Future Service Delivery
Architecture Through July 31, 2011
As a current NWS data user, NWS is requesting your comments as
we develop a new service delivery architecture designed to meet
your needs. Our primary goal is to fulfill our mission to ensure
the protection of life, property and the enhancement of the
national economy. NWS seeks to improve how we do this by
disseminating the necessary data using strategies and methods
that make use of new and emerging technology. Users of NWS
dissemination services are the most important group affected by
this process and we want you to be involved.
NWS infrastructure includes all dissemination media we currently
support, such as the NWS Telecommunications Gateway, All Hazards
NOAA Weather Radio, NOAA Weather Wire, Family of Services,
NOAAPORT, Emergency Managers Weather Information Network system,
NWSChat, iNWS, Facebook, as well as all web-based, email, and
telephone services. As we consider how best to improve and
expand these current services through the new NWS Dissemination
Architecture, we will conduct research that includes the
following:
* Types of data sets required
* Dissemination methods such as portions of selected datasets
through stable, operational web services (e.g., Simple Object
Access Protocol, Representational State Transfer services,
Geographic Information System) or complete datasets (e.g.,
traditional meteorological formats)
* Best practices of existing dissemination systems, e.g., NOAAs
National Operational Model Archive and Distribution System,
which is web-based and provides both real-time and retrospective
format independent access to climate and weather model data
http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/
* Operational level: for example, requirements to deliver time-
critical information, (e.g., within 1 minute of issuance) and to
improve our ability to prioritize urgent information over non-
urgent information
* Service level: expanding fee-for-service dissemination similar
to the Family of Services program, adding stringent delivery
performance requirements for those customers
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/datamgmt/fos/fospage.html
Your input on these ideas will help us improve our services to
you. If you have comments or any information you believe would
help in our analysis, please provide your input by July 31,
2011, to the following address:
Robert Bunge
Chief, Telecommunication Software Branch
Telecommunication Operations Center
Phone: 301-713-0882 x 114
Email: nwsrearch@xxxxxxxx
Or you may also provide online input at:
http://nwsrearch.ideascale.com/
We appreciate your assistance as we pursue weather dissemination
systems and techniques appropriate for the 21st Century.
National Public Information Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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