Organization - MDL
MDL Division Organization
Digital Forecast Services Division
The Digital Forecast Services Division conducts applied research and development aimed at the improvement and exploitation of the official NWS products and services. The division designs and implements applications that measure, evaluate, and assess the quality of NWS forecasts and guidance. It develops tools to exploit and visualize the vast suite of operational data, numerical weather prediction model output along with critical geo-referenced metadata.
Statistical Modeling Division
The Statistical Modeling Division develops and implements a skillful, consistent set of statistically-calibrated objective probabilistic post-processed guidance for weather elements to serve as the starting point for the national gridded forecast and the foundation for Impact-Based Decision Support Services (IDSS). Products cover lead times ranging from a few hours to eleven days in advance and are used by a variety of public and private customers. Innovative scientific approaches are investigated to quantify forecast uncertainty, focusing on the likelihoods of various forecast scenarios and ranges of possible outcomes.
Decision Support Division
The Decision Support Division develops and implements applications to synthesize, display, post-process, and manipulate data and guidance from various sources to aid the Weather Forecast Office (WFO) and National Center forecasters in providing impact-based decision support services (IDSS) to core partners. The Division develops forecast and warning guidance and services to support IDSS for special core partners such as those in the transportation (aviation, marine, and ground) sector as well as public and private customers.
Weather Information Applications Division
The Weather Information Applications Division (WIAD) develops and implements applications to support and enhance NWS service delivery, including Impact-Based Decision Support Services (IDSS) and product dissemination. WIAD leads the development of tools that enable secure and consistent management of the services and collaboration that NWS offices provide to partners. WIAD is also involved in a variety of data service efforts including Application Programming Interface (API) development, data modeling, NWS product dissemination, and prototyping and demonstration of new international standards.