Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System Transition Project Risk Reduction Activity

The Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS) is a data assimilation and distribution system developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) Office of Atmospheric Research Earth System Research Laboratory/Global Systems Division (ESRL/GSD) to perform the functions of data ingest, data integration, processing for QC, observation network monitoring, and data distribution for NOAA and non-NOAA observations worldwide. MADIS processes many types of meteorological data: surface observations from mesonets; upper air soundings, including balloon-borne and aircraft; remotely sensed data from both ground-based and satellite systems; and aircraft data. The MADIS development has reached a point where MADIS can now be transitioned to operations at the NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS) Telecommunications Operations Center (TOC) in Silver Spring, Maryland during fiscal year 2009. NOAA’s NWS initiated its risk reduction activity in 2006. This paper describes the project risk reduction strategy and the results achieved through 2007.