For more than two decades, the emergency management community has articulated a need for real-time, street-level flood inundation maps depicting the areal extent, depth, and infrastructure impacted by flood waters, to inform critical decisions that save lives and property before, during, and, after a flood event. NOAA will collect and integrate high-resolution bathymetric and topographic data to advance flood and inundation mapping capabilities, particularly for previously underserved communities inland and along the coast. NOAA tracks the progress of making real-time flood inundation mapping services available for 100% of the U.S. population, using Oak Ridge National Laboratory LandScan 2019 data and the latest Census data to assess how many residents lie within the areas served by FIM.

New or improved PBL parameterizations will lead to improving the accuracy of atmospheric models and forecasts such as for precipitation lead time.

Improve the accuracy and specificity of extreme rainfall forecasts as measured by the Threat Score of the 2” threshold, made 3 days in advance. Given this score is sensitive to the type of rainfall events experienced, and varies by year, we are adopting a 3 year running average. For FY22 and FY23, we are targeting roughly a 25% overlap between the forecast and observed area (0.14). For comparison, a Threat Score of 0 represents no overlap between forecast & observed location and a Threat Score of 1 represents complete overlap between forecast & observed location. The formula for calculating the Threat Score is = Overlap / (Forecast + Observed - Overlap).

Some 98% of all Presidentially declared disasters are weather-related, leading to around 500 deaths per year and nearly $15 billion in damage. The StormReady program helps empower America's communities with the communication and safety skills needed to save lives and property--before, during, and after the event. In order to determine how many of our StormReady communities are serving socially vulnerable populations and businesses, we'll use the top quartile for the CDC's Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) of 0.75-1.0 overlaid with how many StormReady communities are located in those areas. The target number in FY22 will serve as our current baseline and any increase in target number in FY23 will directly correlate to our planned increase of 75 StormReady communities.

Provides field, lab, and model studies to advance our understanding of atmospheric processes related to climate intervention that increases our instrumentation capabilities to conduct measurements of stratospheric gases and aerosols, improves our modeling and forecasting capabilities for stratospheric chemistry and dynamics, establishes a baseline state of stratospheric composition and transport for evaluating the current performance of atmospheric models, and as point of reference for any future changes, and improves our understanding of marine cloud properties and associated cloud-aerosol interactions in order

Americans live in the most severe weather-prone country on Earth. StormReady Communities support a Weather- Ready Nation by preparing for the occurrence of high impact environmental events. On an annual basis NWS targets 100 new StormReady Communities pending funding availability. StormReady supports NWS’ disaster risk reduction strategy and is offered to provide guidance and incentive to officials who want to improve their hazardous weather and flood operations. A long-term goal for the program is to make every county or county-equivalent in the United States StormReady. The 2010 U.S. Census identifies 3,234 county or county-equivalents in the United States. We are 44 percent of the way there with 1,419 county or county- equivalents currently recognized as StormReady. A StormReady Community is defined as a local government* entity or facility** that has the authority and ability to adopt the StormReady recognition guidelines for the residents and visitors within its jurisdiction. *The term “local government” means – (A) A county, parish, borough, municipality, city, town, township, local public authority, school district, special district, intrastate district, council of governments (regardless of whether the council of governments is incorporated as a nonprofit corporation under State law), regional or interstate government entity, or agency or instrumentality of a local government; (B) An Indian tribe or authorized tribal organization, or Alaska Native village or organization; and a rural community, unincorporated town or village, or other public entity, which has the ability to achieve StormReady recognition. **The term “facility” for a StormReady community exclusively means - universities, military installations, state/national parks, power plants/utilities, transportation centers (e.g., airports), theme parks/entertainment complex, and large event venues (e.g. stadiums).

Provides field, lab, and model studies to advance our understanding of atmospheric processes related to climate intervention that increases our instrumentation capabilities to conduct measurements of stratospheric gases and aerosols, improves our modeling and forecasting capabilities for stratospheric chemistry and dynamics, establishes a baseline state of stratospheric composition and transport for evaluating the current performance of atmospheric models, and as point of reference for any future changes, and improves our understanding of marine cloud properties and associated cloud-aerosol interactions in order

This measure tracks the percentage of fish stocks that are below their annual catch limit (ACL) in a given year. In 2007, Congress enacted a requirement to use ACLs to end and prevent overfishing. The use of ACLs has been successful in ending and preventing overfishing, as stock assessments have shown the number of stocks subject to overfishing continuing to decline. Performance is measured by comparing the final annual catch estimate to the ACL for each stock that has an ACL. If the final annual catch estimate for the stock is less than the ACL, NOAA will report that the stock did not exceed its ACL.

The AHHI provides an indicator of the overall amount of U.S. EEZ that is currently surveyed to an appropriate level of certainty to support safe navigation. The index is measured based on an internal model that assessed the degree of certainty needed for a a given area based on several factors – for instance, highly tracked and shallower areas need higher resolution surveys, and must be resurveyed more frequently to capture natural and human-caused changes (e.g., from storms, dredging, or maritime accidents). The index has a maximum score of 300; areas that are more important to maritime industry are weighted more heavily in the index.