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The NOAA Weather and Climate Toolkit

The NOAA Weather and Climate Toolkit . Steve Ansari , Stephen Del Greco ( NOAA / NCDC) Mark Phillips ( UNC-Asheville / NEMAC) Bill Hankins (STG Inc.). Overview. Free, public domain source code Desktop and command-line application Simple visualization and data export

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The NOAA Weather and Climate Toolkit

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  1. The NOAA Weather and Climate Toolkit Steve Ansari, Stephen Del Greco (NOAA / NCDC) Mark Phillips (UNC-Asheville / NEMAC) Bill Hankins (STG Inc.)

  2. Overview • Free, public domain source code • Desktop and command-line application • Simple visualization and data export • Platform independent (Java-based) • Leverages community tools and standards (NetCDF for Java, Common Data Model, etc…)

  3. Data • Raw data files on disk or remote location (URL, THREDDS, OPeNDAP, etc…) • NetCDF, GRIB, GINI, HDF and more via Unidata Common Data Model (CDM): • Feature types of Grid, Swath, Radial (Time Series, Point, coming soon) • Supports: • NEXRAD, GOES, Model Data, and much more.

  4. Visualization • Simple 2-D maps • Basic overlays included (states, counties, etc…) • Background images from any OGC WMS • Shaded Relief, Topo Maps, Landsat, ext… • Save images and animations to Animated GIF, AVI, KMZ (Google Earth)

  5. Visualization GOES Infrared Water Vapor with Blue Marble Web Map Service (WMS) background map

  6. Visualization Smoothed NEXRAD Reflectivity Data

  7. Visualization U.S. Drought Monitor service from NIDIS/NDMC (National Drought Mitigation Center)

  8. Visualization Sea Surface Temperature (NetCDF data over OPeNDAP)

  9. Visualization Sea Surface Temperature Animation (NetCDF data over OPeNDAP)

  10. Visualization • New Feature: • Internal Google Earth Instance (Currently Windows Only)

  11. Visualization Hurricane Andrew: NCDC GridSat Climate Data Record (CDR).

  12. Data Export • “Bridge” between raw Weather and Climate data and multiple scientific user communities • Export Data to: Shapefile, Well-Known Text, Arc/Info ASCII GRID, Gridded and Raw NetCDF, GeoTIFF and KMZ (Google Earth)

  13. Applications Level-II NEXRAD Reflectivity data from Hurricane Charley in ESRI ArcScene. Data exported to a point Shapefile with an exaggerated height attribute.

  14. Applications GOES Satellite Imagery from Hurricane Rita landfall, exported as ASCII GRID, in ArcGIS

  15. Applications GOES Satellite Imagery from Hurricane Rita landfall in Google Earth

  16. Applications • New Features: • 3D Radar Sweeps in Google Earth • Drapes rendered image on COLLADA model (Similar to 3D building models)

  17. Applications Hurricane Charley: 3D Radar Reflectivity in Google Earth

  18. Applications Hurricane Katrina: 3D Radar Reflectivity in Google Earth

  19. Applications Hurricane Katrina: 3D Radar Reflectivity in Google Earth (Movie – click to start…)

  20. Applications Command-line batch processing of data export

  21. Applications Public domain / open source API

  22. Contact Thank you! Questions? WCT Website: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/wct Contact: Steve.Ansari@noaa.gov (828) 271-4611 151 Patton Ave. Asheville, NC 28801

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