Hazard Services Progress Report (307)
Daniel Nietfeld, NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSD,
Boulder, CO
Tracy Hansen, NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSD
Abstract:
Hazard Services is making
progress toward streamlining National Weather Service operations by integrating
software tools into a common interface for issuing timely and accurate hazard
information (including warnings, watches, and advisories). We will provide an
update on Hazard Services development work, which is proceeding to operational
capability for hydrology and additional hazard phenomena. While operational
work for legacy capabilities continues, experimental work is expanding the
concepts to other areas including capabilities aimed at National Centers. Plans
for integration of all Hazard Services applications are underway to provide a
unified hazard generation platform.
The basic process of identifying
a hazard area, time frame, and other hazard characteristics is being applied to
diverse phenomena such as aviation weather, national precipitation forecasts,
and probabilistic convective events. We will present a sampling of applications
showing how the operational and experimental work are both using and
contributing to the Hazard Services framework.