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Mission:
To accelerate the adoption of advanced computing,
communications and information technology throughout NOAA.
Objectives:
- To enable NOAA to disseminate its vast holdings
of real-time and historical information to users more completely,
in a more usable form, and in a much more timely manner via advanced
networking
- To enhance NOAA's scientific productivity through the
use of advanced collaboration and model analysis tools, enabling faster,
more effective communications among researchers, and improved analysis,
diagnosis and visualization of model output
Program Outcomes:
- NOAA's research in climate prediction and weather
forecasting enables NOAA researchers to collaborate effectively,
efficiently, and easily with colleagues throughout NOAA, the nation
and even the world.
- Increased computing power provides for higher resolution
in the current models of the Earth's atmosphere-ocean system which provide
for more accurate representation of key features such as weather fronts
and ocean eddies, and distortions due to clouds can be reduced.
- HPCC efforts that support climate modeling provide better
simulations of atmosphere-ocean coupling which result in more accurate
and timelier assessments of the future impact of climate change.
- HPCC modeling efforts in weather forecasting provide
finer resolution in global and regional models that result in better weather
forecasting and warning services, especially for hazardous weather and
flight safety.
- Through HPCC efforts in advanced networking and information
management technology, critical data and information are becoming available
more quickly, from more diverse sources, yet in a more integrated form
for use during emergencies.
Major Actvities
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