Digital Operations Concept

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Digital Operations Concept

• IFPS Workshop
• April 13-15,2004

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Why a Digital Services Operations Concept?
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• Focus agency on the vision and goals of
  transition to digital services
• Describe significant corporate changes
• How we provide information
• What parts of the agency are best positioned to
  provide what portions of digital information
  database
• Infrastructure and organizational changes

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NWS Digital Services VisionTo meet customer and
partner needs for high quality, accessible, and
reliable digital weather, water, and climate
services through optimized forecast operations.
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Why Digital Services?

• IT has provided new information exchange pathways
• Web
• Digital data exchange
• Graphical
• Partners and customers are becoming more
  sophisticated
• Demand for faster access to information and
  updates
• NRC Recommendation to provide data and products
  in digital form

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Benefits

• More timely and consistent weather information
• Information delivered in a variety of formats to
  meet diverse needs
• Higher temporal and spatial resolution
• Focus on science
• Easier access to, and use of, information

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Operational Scenario

• Local offices and national centers will merge
  the forecast and observational expertise found
  within each unit by working together to construct
  a national digital database of weather
  information.
• Emphasis will be placed on hazardous and high
  impact events.

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Local Database

• Local products and services will be derived from
  the local digital database
• Ability for rapid updates based upon the
  situation
• Very high temporal and spatial detail which is
  used to populate the NDFD
• Demand for interpretive and/or supplemental
  information

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National Database

• National products and services will be derived
  from the national database
• Database currency maintained through coordinated
  local updates
• Standard formats of girds and derived products
• Standard time and/or space conventions
• NDFD will have multiple points of entry with
  backup capabilities
• Quality Assurance checks to ensure completeness,
  consistency and reliability
• Rigorous verification and feedback

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Achieving Success

• Improving Partnerships
• Building coalitions
• Exploiting communications technology
• Increasing data resolution
• Maximizing value of data
• Improved Services
• Database centric operations
• Automated generation of products
• Infusion of new science
• Performance assessment
• Heightened collaboration

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Success Continued

• Organizational Excellence
• Agency commitment to continually reassess
  priorities and redirect resources
• Building trust through frequent dialogue with all
  stakeholders
• Building constituencies through interaction with
  partners and customers
• Emphasis on Training
• Decentralized control with local and regional
  oversight maximizing efficiency, consistency and
  compliance with national standards

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Summary

• Digital Services will support the growing demand
  for reliable, updated, high resolution weather
  information
• Maximize use of technology and science
• Redistribution of forecaster workload with a
  focus on significant weather events
• NWS operations oriented around digital services
• Increased access to information will assist
  decision makers, protect the environment, support
  the economy and minimize impacts of hazardous
  weather.

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