LINKS:
*Water Mgt Prog.

*ESIP Federation Water Mgmt

Introduction

The cycling of energy and water has obvious and significant implications for the health and prosperity of society. NEWS is envisioned to be part of the broader NASA end-to-end Earth science program. The overall program thus includes the transition of research findings and new capabilities to academic/public education and to practical applications, through partnerships with the academic community-at-large, federal agencies that oversee environmental protection and operational applications, and eventually private sector operators.

The ultimate goal of NEWS is a breakthrough improvement in the nation’s energy and water cycle prediction capability. NEWS is expected to demonstrate advanced global observation, data assimilation, and improved representation of physical processes in climate models, better prediction systems that can be used to quantify the hydrologic consequences of climate change and produce useful seasonal and longer-range hydrologic predictions based on observed initial values and changing boundary conditions.

NEWS Information

NSIT Defined
A NEWS Science Integration Team has been established by the Associate Administrator to serve and enable the integration of your science activities with other NEWS investigations and other NASA research foci and activities. The NSIT will serve as an interface to NASA system components, and to coordinate and integrate the results of the NEWS product- and discovery-driven investigations to provide a pathway for the results of NEWS investigations to be implemented and retained as NASA system components. The NSIT will develop and provide shared NEWS services such as information technology, communication, and planning that will be designed to enhance cross-project collaboration and integration. The current members of the NSIT are: Robert Schiffer (UMBC), Eni Njoku (NASA-JPL), Adam Schlosser (MIT), Bing Lin (NASA-LaRC), Bill Rossow (NASA-GSFC-GISS), Bill Lapenta (NASA-MSFC), Paul Houser (GMU-CREW), and Jared Entin (NASA-HQ). Paul Houser serves at the NEWS project scientist, and Jared Entin serves as the NEWS project manager.

NEWS Project Flexibility
As stated in the NRA, selected NEWS investigations will be expected to interact proactively with other NEWS investigators to optimize progress toward integrating NASA Earth Science Enterprise System components to make decisive progress toward the NEWS challenge. This will require some modification of investigators' tasks to optimize integration (i.e. identify and eliminate areas of potential overlap) and fill NEWS team gaps as they become apparent. This will require frequent communication via telephone conferences and by attending at least two (TBD) NEWS team meetings per year. A required NEWS team kick-off meeting was already held on Sept. 7-9, at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City.

NEWS Team Member Account Request Form
NASA NEWS team investigators may request an account at CREW to gain access to the NDIC system.