NOAA Science Research Review of the
Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory

GLERL Technology Transfer

GLERL develops a wide range of products that aid decision-making to sustain resilient ecosystems, communities, and economies. Transferable products include observational data sets, visualization tools, analysis and forecast products, decision support and situational awareness tools, physical process model parameterizations, assessments, model outputs, climate, ice-hydrodynamic, water budget analyses and reanalyses, etc. These tools are developed in partnership with operational entities across NOAA, foreign and domestic governmental agencies, academic institutions, private industry, and region-specific stakeholders. These products and services are organized by theme group in the figures below.

Technology Transition Readiness Levels (TRL) are defined as the following:

• 9 – Actual system “mission proven” through successful operations.
• 8 – Actual system completed and “mission qualified” through test and demo in operational environment.
• 7 – System prototyping demonstration in an operational environment.
• 6 – System/subsystem model or prototyping demonstration in a relevant end-to-end environment.
• 5 – System/subsystem validation in relevant environment.
• 4 – Component/subsystem validation in laboratory environment.
• 3 – Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof-of-concept.
• 2 – Technology concept and/or application has been formulated.
• 1 – Basic principles have been observed and reported.

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Margaret Lansing
Margaret.lansing@noaa.gov
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