DEC.10, 2006Santos Rodriguez, NWS EMWIN.ppt

DEC.10,2006 EMWIN Users cont. Many TV Stations in the mid-west, especially tornado alley Police Stations, Fire Stations, Emergency Centers, Emergency response personnel Re-broadcasters, paging networks Worldwide Internet Users via Byte Blaster network Weather Channel is known to use EMWIN U.S. Air force uses in remote areas EMWIN Satellite Constellation * DEC.10, 2006 Santos Rodriguez, NWS EMWIN CURRENT EMWIN OVERVIEW What is EMWIN? The Emergency Managers Weather Information Network is a wireless, priority-driven computer weather data broadcast system that takes advantage of minimal wireless bandwidth. EMWIN provides rapid Satellite, VHF Radio, and Internet dissemination of: Alerts / Warnings 1 minutes Forecasts ~ 2- 5 minutes Graphics ~ 10 – 15 minutes Imagery ~ 10 – 15 minutes Other as time permits In severe weather non-warning products may take longer How it works Data are collected from a variety of sources: 1. Gateway 2. Weather Wire 3. FTP 4. Internet They are assembled at the EMWIN servers and : 1. Prioritized into high , mid , and low priority products 2. Split into 1k packets 3. Assembled into a 9.6kbs serial data stream How it works cont. The data stream is then sent to Wallops Command and Data Acquisition Station WCDAS , NESDIS where it is Up linked to satellite GOES 12 and GOES 11 At Pacific Region HQ, it is received from GOES-11 and up linked to PSAT which relays the signal father west EMWIN products can be retransmitted by other methods Transmitted via radio frequency local re-broadcast Sent on the Internet Byte Blaster NWS EMWIN Architecture INTERNET CLOUD NWS GATEWAY SYSTEM WEATHERWIRE SYSTEM A C B D BYTE BLASTER NETWORK WALLOPS CDAS GOES SPACE CRAFT DEDICATED ANALOG LINE EMWIN FEED SOURCES EMWIN PC NETWORK EMWIN INTERNET PUSH BITSTREAM DEDICATED ANALOG LINE/T1 backup Tertiary System Psat Asiastar Telstar G-10 G-13 EMWIN Users National Weather Service Forecast Offices and Warning Coordination Meteorologist