The cumulative number of products across model regions by year (basically, products + regions complete). The measure is calculated by adding when a model component is completed and integrated into the regional model for the region indicated. As planned under the NOAA Climate and Fisheries Initiative, OAR will incorporate the three products above (high-resolution prototype ocean hindcasts, Seasonal to Multi-annual Predictions, and projections) into the regional models for the four regions listed (East Coast, West Coast, Arctic, and Pacific Islands). These enhanced regional models will be part of the information developed and provided to users to help manage U.S. fisheries that are impacted by climate change.

The Argo program is responsible for providing real-time data for the upper 2000m of ocean heat content globally and for important regions like the Tropical Pacific for detection of El Nino.

Integrating social scientists earlier and more widely in inter-disciplinary research projects will help drive innovation and facilitate greater consideration of end users’ requirements during the design and implementation of research, when it is more feasible to adjust the work to improve its value to end users.

This metric measures the level of customer service provided by the Office of Space Commerce to the U.S. commercial space industry and other external stakeholders in response to specific requests for support. This metric applies only to major requests requiring application of labor hours or other resources towards the investigation, coordination, and resolution of policy/regulatory issues or achievement of activities that promote the interests of U.S. space companies.

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.

The Arctic is a vast, remote region that is critical to the United States economy, weather and sea ice forecasting, our understanding of ecosystem health (including marine mammals and fisheries), and our understanding of climate change. Due to the presence of low temperatures, harsh sea conditions, limited telecommunications infrastructure, and sea ice, maintaining a network of sea ice buoys, Air-Launched Autonomous Micro-Observers, and Bering & Chukchi moorings is difficult, necessitating constant deployment of a combination of expendable technologies and retrieval and redeployment of a large network of moorings in the Bering and Chukchi Seas.

This performance measure will assess how the UxS Research Transition Office (UxSRTO) investments are maturing the readiness levels of UxS observing system applications.

This measure tracks the cumulative number of OMICs related projects executed across OAR - currently that number is derived via a query of the NOAA Research and Development Database (NRDD).