COPC Action Items - Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology

COPC Action Items
(as of 19 March 2009)
Fall 2008 Action Items
COPC Action Item 2008-2.1: CSAB will acquire read aheads for the NUOPC town hall
presentations to be given at the AMS annual meeting 11-15 January, 2009 and provide to COPC
principles. [NUOPC related]
Priority: (M)
Advocate: Allan Darling
Suspense: January 2009 CSAB Telcon.
Status as of 22 January 2009: Closed.
• CSAB 18 December 2008. Allan Darling – An email request has been sent to Fred
Toepfer (NUOPC) asking for the materials for the AMS, even draft form will be
acceptable. No response back yet, but the plan is to distribute this information to COPC
and CSAB before the next CSAB telcon (AMS meets before the next telcon).
• CSAB 22 January 2009. The draft version of the NUOPC presentation was sent to
COPC and CSAB on 09 January 2009. This action is now considered closed.
COPC Action Item 2008-2.2: CSAB will generate a list of topics that require coordination with
NUOPC. [NUOPC related]
Priority: (L)
Advocate: John Zapotocny, WG/CSAB
Suspense: Spring 2009 CSAB meeting.
Status as of 19 March 2009: Open.
• CSAB 18 December 2008. John Zapotocny will produce the first cut of a list of topics
and present this information to CSAB for comments at an upcoming CSAB telcon.
• CSAB 22 January 2009. John Zapotocny was on leave for this meeting so this action
will be updated during the next telcon.
• CSAB 26 February 2009. John Zapotocny will present the list at the Spring F2F CSAB
meeting.
• CSAB 19 March 2009. John Zapotocny was not able to attend, but will present the list
at the Spring F2F CSAB meeting.
COPC Action Item 2008-2.3: CSAB will arrange the NUOPC Program Manager to present at
the Spring 2009 COPC meeting. Presentation shall include draft report-outs from working
groups, status report and potential areas for collaboration. [NUOPC related]
Priority: (L)
Advocate: John Zapotocny, Allan Darling
Suspense: Spring 2009 CSAB meeting.
Status as of 19 March 2009: Open.
• CSAB 18 December 2008. Allan Darling will contact Fred Toepfer with the request to
brief COPC in the spring.
• CSAB 22 January 2009. Allan Darling – Contacted Fred Toepfer (NUOPC) and
received a verbal commitment that Fred will attend the Spring COPC. All members
should send possible topics for Fred to cover at the COPC to John or Allan. Allan would
like to send this list to Fred two months before the Spring COPC meeting.
• CSAB 26 February 2009. Allan Darling – reconnect with Fred and confirm his
presenting at COPC and CSAB F2F.

• CSAB 19 March 2009. Allan Darling – Fred has confirmed that he will attend the
COPC meeting, but I am still working to have him present at the CSAB F2F. Review
and update the status at the next CSAB meeting.
COPC Action Item 2008-2.4: Each COPC member will interact with their respective NUOPC
Executive Steering Group member to emphasize the urgency of coordinating between NUOPC
and COPC, especially within the areas that comprise transition points between
design/development and operational execution. [NUOPC related]
Priority: (L)
Advocate: John Zapotocny (AFWA), George Mason (NAVO), Jim Vermeulen (FNMOC), Allan
Darling (NCEP), Selina Nauman (NESDIS).
Suspense: Spring 2009 CSAB meeting.
Status as of 19 March 2009: Open.
• CSAB 18 December 2008. Allan Darling has not discussed this action item directly with
Dr. Uccellini but will meet with him soon to discuss multiple COPC items. John
Zapotocny has discussed this with Col Murphy and Col Stoffler and both understand the
need to coordinate the two groups.
• CSAB 22 January 2009. Allan Darling mentioned that Dr. Uccellini has discussed
NUOPC and COPC with Dr Hayes, so this issue has been discussed at the NWS
Executive Steering Group level.
• CSAB 26 February 2009. John Zapotocny – 13 March 2009 there will be an Executive
Steering Group meeting to re-look at NUOPC’s strategic mission.
• CSAB 19 March 2009. Allan Darling – this will be reviewed at the COPC meeting to
see if the Directors agree that it is getting the attention it needs. Review and update the
status at the next CSAB meeting.
COPC Action Item 2008-2.5: JAG ODAA will provide a set of recommendations to
accomplish end to end testing of NPP data assimilation.
Priority: (M)
Advocate: Jim Vermeulen
Suspense: February 2009 CSAB Telcon.
Status as of 19 March 2009: Open.
• CSAB 18 December 2008. Jim Vermeulen could not make the meeting.
• CSAB 22 January 2009. Jim Vermeulen – will be going to the UCNCF in early
February, so he will have more information at the next telcon. There has been some end
to end testing with AFWA.
• CSAB 26 February 2009. Jim Vermeulen – was not able to attend.
• CSAB 19 March 2009. Jim Vermeulen – there has been a lot of work done on this
action. We have multiple data sets available and they have to be linked together.
Additionally, a test data working group has been formed. Once one data set is developed
and run through the IDPS, it will need to be distributed to the NPP users. This item will
be included in the JAG/ODAA review for the CSAB meeting and the COPC meeting.
COPC Action Item 2008-2.6: JAG ODAA will develop a set of standard test data based on
contractor proxy simulations.
Priority: (M)
Advocate: Jim Vermeulen
Suspense: February 2009 CSAB Telcon.
Status as of 19 March 2009: Open.

• CSAB 18 December 2008. Jim Vermeulen could not make the meeting.
• CSAB 22 January 2009. Jim Vermeulen – will be going to the UCNCF in early
February, so he will have more information at the next telcon. Review and update the
status at the next CSAB telcon.
• CSAB 26 February 2009. Jim Vermeulen – was not able to attend. Review and update
the status at the next CSAB telcon.
• CSAB 19 March 2009. Jim Vermeulen – there is proxy data available in NPOESS
HDF5 simulated format. This item will be included in the JAG/ODAA review for the
CSAB meeting and the COPC meeting.
COPC Action Item 2008-2.7: JAG ODAA will obtain a member from NPOESS Integrated
Program Office (IPO).
Priority: (M)
Advocate: Jim Vermeulen, Tony Ramirez
Suspense: December 2008 CSAB Telcon.
Status as of 19 March 2009: Closed.
• CSAB 18 December 2008. Tony Ramirez has made contact with IPO and will provide
an update at the next CSAB telcon.
• CSAB 22 January 2009. Jim Vermeulen – will update the status at the next CSAB
telcon.
• CSAB 26 February 2009. Tony Ramirez – IPO has been contacted and will provide
member names very soon.
• CSAB 19 March 2009. Jim Vermeulen – IPO will provide 2 primary members: Rich
Ullman (DPD) and Marge Ripley (GSD) to attend the JAG/ODAA meetings and 2
alternates: Joe Zajic (DPD) and Joe Mulligan (GSD). Closed.
COPC Action Item 2008-2.8: FNMOC will explore extending the forecast period of
WESTPAC COAMPS from 48 to 84 hours. NWS will provide firm date when NOAA will fully
utilize the COAMPS data. CSAB will report back on the above for Spring COPC meeting.
Priority: (M)
Advocate: JAG/OCM – [Roger Stocker (FNMOC)], Allan Darling (NWS)
Suspense: February 2009 CSAB Telcon.
Status as of 19 March 2009: Open.
• CSAB 18 December 2008. Nelson Seaman will contact the OCM members to start
addressing this action item. Allan Darling – we have been in dialog with FNMOC on the
acquisition of the products and have made sure we understand the requirements.
NCEP/NCO is also working with the TOC and NCEP is working to get the utilization in
the Pacific Region.
• CSAB 22 January 2009. Nelson Seaman – FNMOC has agreed to extend COAMPS to
84 hours and they are working on the communications portion now.
• CSAB 26 February 2009. Nelson Seaman – We are now monitoring the situation and
will assist if necessary.
• CSAB 19 March 2009. Nelson Seaman – Monitoring, there have been test packets sent
from FNMOC to NCEP in February and now it is waiting until early April to be
implemented into operations. Review and update the status at the next CSAB meeting.
COPC Action Item 2008-2.9: JAG OCM will draft a plan to accomplish the proposed
alignment of OCONUS windows to include resolution and forecast period and establish mutual

support/backup. The plan shall include user and resource impacts and computational
requirements.
Priority: (M)
Advocate: JAG/OCM – [Nelson Seaman (Chair)]
Suspense: Spring 2009 CSAB meeting.
Status as of 19 March 2009: Open.
• CSAB 18 December 2008. Nelson Seaman will contact the OCM members to start
addressing this action item.
• CSAB 22 January 2009. Nelson Seaman – will discuss this action at the upcoming
JAG/OCM telcon (28 Jan 2009).
• CSAB 26 February 2009. Nelson Seaman – we have been focusing on the WESTPAC
domain as the starting effort and if this works out well for all we can then consider other
domains. We have produced a draft plan and are working to finalize the document.
• CSAB 19 March 2009. Nelson Seaman – we have not been able to meet, but we do have
a telcon scheduled for 24 March 2009. Review and update the status at the next CSAB
meeting.
COPC Action Item 2008-2.10: JAG CCM will provide analysis of recent changes to DoD IA
requirements regarding the category “unclassified but sensitive” and determine if this new
guidance requires encryption for meteorological data. AFWA TD will capture the new guidance
and provide to JAG CCM. [NUOPC related]
Priority: (H)
Advocate: JAG/CCM – [Luis Cano (Chair)]
Suspense: Spring 2009 CSAB meeting or (April 1, 2009).
Status as of 19 March 2009: Open.
• CSAB 18 December 2008. CCM plans to draft a short list of questions to start the
discussion with the TDs from AFWA, FNMOC, and NAVO. CCM plans to setup the
meeting with the TDs for mid January.
• CSAB 22 January 2009. Luis Cano – Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) will
not impact operations right now. It will become a set of policies that will be developed
over time. CCM has contacted the DOD task force on CUI and the Federal Working
Group and it will be a Federal standard on markings to replace unclassified but sensitive.
CCM has a meeting scheduled for 11 Feb 2009 to discuss the need and implementation of
encryption.
• CSAB 26 February 2009. Luis Cano – we will add the Controlled Unclassified
Information (CUI) information to the JAG/CCM briefing to COPC and most likely
recommend closing this action.
• CSAB 19 March 2009. Luis Cano – we will include the Controlled Unclassified
Information (CUI) information in to the JAG/CCM briefing with a recommendation of
closing. Review and update the status at the next CSAB meeting.
COPC Action Item 2008-2.11: JAG CCM shall coordinate the development of the next
generation COPC shared network infrastructure with DoD and NOAA IT leadership. The JAG
CCM shall leverage projects currently underway that are planning a NOAANet-DoD enterprise
network capability. [NUOPC related]
Priority: (M)
Advocate: JAG/CCM – [Craig Hegemann]
Suspense: Spring 2009 CSAB meeting or (April 1, 2009).
Status as of 19 March 2009: Open.

• CSAB 18 December 2008. CCM has invited Craig Hegemann to brief the current effort
of a NOAAnet to DOD enterprise solution, at the next CCM telcon. The goal is to
widen the scope of this project to also consider Navy and NESDIS. Review and update
the status at the next CSAB telcon.
• CSAB 22 January 2009. Luis Cano – CCM has a meeting scheduled for 11 Feb 2009
with AFWA TD, CNMOC N6, Navy TDs, NESDIS Deputy CIO, and TOC Director.
Review and update the status at the next CSAB telcon.
• CSAB 26 February 2009. Luis Cano – CCM held the meeting and produced the Next
Steps, which includes a data requirements gathering effort.
• CSAB 19 March 2009. Luis Cano – need to hear back from Craig Hegemann to see if
he has been in contact with the appropriate level at DISA. Review and update the status
at the next CSAB meeting.
COPC Action Item 2008-2.12: JAG CCM will provide an ongoing process to capture and
coordinate telecommunication requirements across COPC partners. These requirements would
include the size of the data, when the data needs to be transmitted, when the data needs to be
received, which COPC partner will send the data, which COPC partner will receive the data, the
schedule of when new data will or needs to be enabled, encryption requirements, other data
restrictions, and related COPC business functions. As a follow-on action item, this process would
be used to validate technical designs and resource estimates for new network infrastructure
initiatives. This process would provide COPC continuing value by supporting network capacity
management for existing infrastructure and help justify funding requests for future network
upgrades. [NUOPC related]
Priority: (M)
Advocate: JAG/CCM – [Luis Cano (Chair)]
Suspense: Spring 2009 CSAB meeting or (April 1, 2009).
Status as of 19 March 2009: Open.
• CSAB 18 December 2008. The CCM plan is to develop a template to gather
requirements to allow for technical analysis on the capacity that is needed for the future
and to assist with budgetary decisions.
• CSAB 22 January 2009. Luis Cano – CCM has a meeting scheduled for 11 Feb 2009
and we may start to touch on each OPC’s requirements. Review and update the status at
the next CSAB telcon.
• CSAB 26 February 2009. Luis Cano – CCM held the meeting and produced the Next
Steps, which includes a data requirements gathering effort.
• CSAB 19 March 2009. Luis Cano – The requirements gathering data call went out to
the COPC CIOs on 11 March with a response date of 24 April. Review and update the
status at the next CSAB meeting.
COPC Action Item 2008-2.13: NESDIS will provide a timeline of product availability during
Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) operations and a listing of products in each priority
category.
Priority: (L)
Advocate: Selina Nauman
Suspense: Spring 2009 CSAB meeting.
Status as of 19 March 2009: Open.
• CSAB 18 December 2008. Selina Nauman has already delivered the listing of products,
but the priority (order of delivery) of products when the CIP is invoked, has not been
developed yet.

• CSAB 22 January 2009. Selina Nauman could not attend this meeting.
• CSAB 26 February 2009. Selina Nauman provided the documented requirements for
priority 1 products (produced within 24 hours) and priority 2 products (produced within
48 hours). Currently, priority 3 products are not intended to be produced at all. Action
can be closed with the addition of some definitions and then distributed at the COPC
meeting.
• CSAB 19 March 2009. Selina Nauman could not attend this meeting. Allan Darling
will ask Selina to include information from the NESDIS 9 April briefing. Review and
update the status at the next CSAB meeting.
COPC Action Item 2008-2.14: CSAB will oversee the work of the “Dropout Team” to
continue examining the performance dropout issue and how lessons learned can be applied to
numerical model performance improvements. This activity shall include establishing periodic
interface with ECMWF to exchange QC methodologies/best practices. Recommendations for
QC of data, acquisition of new data sources and any other relevant issues shall be presented to
the Spring 2009 COPC.
Priority: (M)
Advocate: CSAB, Jim Vermeulen, Brad Ballish
Suspense: Update briefing at the Spring 2009 CSAB meeting.
Status as of 19 March 2009: Open.
• CSAB 18 December 2008. Brad Ballish – nothing new to report but the dropout team is
producing a number of papers for the AMS meeting.
• CSAB 22 January 2009. Brad Ballish – the dropout team reported on what they have
done at the AMS meeting. Allan Darling – A possible delivery for this action will be a
list of best practices and an action plan.
• CSAB 26 February 2009. Brad Ballish – drafted a letter to send to the European Centre
and I’m waiting on comments from the dropout team. The letter is asking for possible
explanations for some of the work we have done and for possible help for getting some
higher resolution analysis.
• CSAB 19 March 2009. Brad Ballish – still waiting on a response from the European
Centre. Review and update the status at the next CSAB meeting.
COPC Action Item 2008-2.15: CSAB will formally invite NUOPC Program Manager (or
designee) to attend all future COPC meetings and to participate in CSAB and JAG OCM
meetings. [NUOPC related]
Priority: (H)
Advocate: John Zapotocny, Allan Darling, Ken Barnett
Suspense: December 2008 CSAB Telcon.
Status as of 19 March 2009: Open.
• CSAB 18 December 2008. OFCM will send a letter to Fred Toepfer with the request to
join COPC. After a NUOPC representative is on COPC, we will work to have
representation on CSAB and JAG/OCM.
• CSAB 22 January 2009. Ken Barnett – will draft a letter for review by Allan and John
and then for signature by the Federal Coordinator.
• CSAB 26 February 2009. Ken Barnett – this has not been done.
• CSAB 19 March 2009. Ken Barnett – draft letter is in for final review and will be sent
from the Federal Coordinator to the Executive Steering Group and CC to COPC. Review
and update the status at the next CSAB meeting.

COPC Action Item 2008-2.16: JAG OCM will examine the possibility of establishing a
common post-processing baseline. This activity shall include scoping and bounding the issue,
defining how it would work and what it would comprise (i.e. common set of software),
examining the effect of NUOPC ESMF decisions that have already been made and proposing a
way forward. [NUOPC related]
Priority: (M)
Advocate: JAG/OCM – [Nelson Seaman (Chair)]
Suspense: Update briefing at the Spring 2009 CSAB meeting.
Status as of 19 March 2009: Open.
• CSAB 18 December 2008. Nelson Seaman will contact the OCM members to start
addressing this action item.
• CSAB 22 January 2009. Nelson Seaman – will discuss this action at the upcoming
JAG/OCM telcon (28 Jan 2009).
• CSAB 26 February 2009. Nelson Seaman – we are focusing on the exchange of
ensemble members since the NUOPC’s thrust is on building a common ensemble system.
John Zapotocny – there is no reason we can not develop a common post-processing
baseline. John and Nelson will discuss this item offline.
• CSAB 19 March 2009. Nelson Seaman – has had additional conversations with John
Zapotocny and the group will look at the areas where there is potential to benefit from
common post-processing software. Review and update the status at the next CSAB
meeting.
Other COPC Action Items Status
COPC Action Item 2008-1.5: Develop a monitoring system to analyze differences between the
NCEP and FNMOC global models and the ECMWF global model in real-time and make this
real-time system available to OPCs as a daily tool.
Priority: (M)
Advocate(s): Mr. James Vermeulen and CDR Mark Moran
Suspense: Spring 2009 CSAB meeting for status update
Status as of 19 March 2009: Open.
• CSAB 29 July, 2008. Jim Vermeulen noted link to the same work as the preceding two
AIs (COPC AI 2008-01.3 and 2008-01.4) and that work is ongoing.
• CSAB 26 August, 2008. CDR Moran noted the briefing out to COPC should cover all
three AIs (COPC AI 2008-01.3, 2008-01.4, and 2008-01.5).
• CSAB 18 September, 2008. Recommend closing three AIs (COPC AI 2008-01.3, 2008-
01.4, and 2008-01.5) by preparing one briefing that addresses the content of each AI.
Status: Prepare a briefing to review the global models issues for COPC and a draft
briefing at the next CSAB meeting.
• CSAB 22 October, 2008. Determine the way forward from the COPC Executive
Session. After the Dropout Team’s briefing to COPC, does COPC want continued work
towards developing a real-time monitoring system as a daily analysis tool.
• CSAB 21 November, 2008. Jim Vermeulen and Brad Ballish will have a
recommendation at the next CSAB telcon.
• CSAB 18 December 2008. Allan Darling will work with Jim Vermeulen and Brad
Ballish to determine if this item needs to be adjusted in scope.
• CSAB 22 January 2009. Allan Darling – Nothing to report on this action.
• CSAB 26 February 2009. Allan Darling – Nothing to report on this action.

• CSAB 19 March 2009. Allan Darling, James Vermeulen, and Brad Ballish will hold a
telcon to discuss this action. Review and update the status at the next CSAB meeting.