1 / 9

Strategic Vision

NWS Provision of Information in Geospatial Formats Ken Waters NOAA/National Weather Service Honolulu, Hawaii Partners Workshop, January 18, 2007. Strategic Vision. Vision NRC "Fair Weather" report (2003):

carla-faulkner
Download Presentation

Strategic Vision

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. NWS Provision of Information in Geospatial Formats Ken WatersNOAA/National Weather ServiceHonolulu, HawaiiPartners Workshop, January 18, 2007

  2. Strategic Vision • Vision • NRC "Fair Weather" report (2003): • NWS should make its observational data, models, and other products available in Internet-accessible digital form...the information should be stored in a standard format that can be accessed by the public and used by all those involved in the weather and climate enterprise. • NWS Strategic Plan for 2005-2010: • Investigate, develop, and expand the use of new technologies in data management and information systems, such as new internet-based standards and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), to accelerate development and implementation of appropriate NWS and NOAA products and services and to integrate these services in ways that are meaningful to our customers • Goals: • Take advantage of the power and advantages of using GIS • Consistent NWS Enterprise GIS dissemination • Based on widely used standards (OGC, etc.) • Technology-driven evolution coordinated with partners/users • Challenges: • Allocating limited NWS resources most effectively • Maintaining consistent dissemination model and ensuring coordinated, orderly evolution

  3. Current Status of GIS • Requirements Process (OSIP) project in system • Many projects: http://weather.gov/gis • Range of formats, access modes • Experimental services developed at HQ, NCEP, and the field • Many involve collaboration with organizations outside NWS • Exploring ways to exploit GIS • Verification (Polygon warning, QPE, etc.), next-generation product creation software, etc. • Examples of NWS GIS information • RIDGE radar • Warning Polygons • Flood Outlook • NDFD - Fire Weather • Precipitation Estimates • Tropical Cyclones

  4. RIDGE • Georeferenced Downloadable RADAR data • Experimental KML • Displayed in GIS program with local data

  5. Warning Polygons • Severe Thunderstorms, Tornado, Flash Flood, & Special Marine • Available as a zipped shapefile file • Displayed in Local GIS application • Data also used by NWS for polygon verification GIS verification of tornado warnings Warnings For One Week as of Jan 14, 2007

  6. RFC Flood Outlook product as shapefile

  7. NDFD/ Fire Weather Temperature forecast for 10/18/06 18Z for SW US States and interstate highways added from AWIPS shapefiles • GRIB2 & DeGRIB Decoder • Feature Server (IMS, WFS) for Fire weather

  8. Precipitation Estimates • QPE • Shapefile • NetCDF QPF Zipped shapefile

  9. Tropical Cyclones EM-Hurr • IMS image and feature servers Prototype • intragovernmental use only • Storm Surge • operational storm surge data in GIS format

More Related