Delivering DigitalServices

NextGen Web Service

Implementation by the National

Weather Service

Ryan SolomonProject ManagerNOAA NextGen IT Web Services

Date: August 28, 2014

Project highlights

• OGC-compliant web services• Standard formats – – NetCDF 4 Classic CF– IWXXM, IWXXM-US, WXXM

• Redundant high availability state of the art data centers– College Park– Boulder

• Experienced in delivery of operational capabilities– NCEP Central Operations

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Project approach

Build it and they will come

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“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.” - FDR

Project approach

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money +iron +people + hard work

= RESULTS

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Project status

Prototype serving data to the FAA to support EWD

Metadata development on trackSchema development progressing nws.weather.gov/schemas/ nws.weather.gov/codes/

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Project status (cont)

IOC – June 2015 Build-out team staffing up• NWS Internet Dissemination System (NIDS)

Training Learning about the data sets Interfacing with subject matter experts

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Project status (cont)

Exploring options CKAN ckan.org

open source data hub used by several countries including the U.S. – data.gov

Boundless OpenGeo Suite boundlessgeo.com PostGIS Open standards – WCS, WFS, WMS

RabbitMQ rabbitmq.com open source messaging broker feature rich persistence high availability clustering

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Data (WFS)

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METAR Priority 1

SPECITAF

SIGMET

Priority 1Priority 1

Priority 1

AIRMETMDCRSNCWF

PIREP

Priority 1Priority 1Priority 1

Priority 1

June 2015June 2015June 2015June 2015June 2015June 2015June 2015June 2015

Project schedule

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CIP/NCWD from NIDS

dev 9/16/14

CIP/NCWD from NIDS dev (OGC

WCS) 11/6/14

METAR from NIDS dev

11/5/14

IOC metadata

and schema records

complete 12/5/14

CIP/NCWD from IDP

(OGC WCS) 12/29/14

METAR from

NIDS dev (OGC WFS)

1/8/15

METAR available from IDP

(OGC WFS)

2/12/15

All IOC products

from NIDS dev 5/4/15

All IOC products from IDP

(OGC WCS/WFS)

6/30/15

Challenges (common)

• Transition from TAC to XML• Bandwidth• System resources• $$• Governance• Change management• Parallel data feeds and data integrity

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Challenges (project)

• OpenGeo NetCDF support• Pub/sub approach• URN namespace uniqueness• Balancing user requirements with schedule– FAA, AWIPS-II, others– What we can realistically stand up by June 2015

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