1 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 The NOAA Weather and Climate Toolkit Steve Ansari, Chad Hutchins, Stephen Del Greco (NOAA / NCDC) Mark Phillips (UNC-Asheville / NEMAC) Nina Stroumentova (STG Inc.)

2 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 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…) Successor to Java NEXRAD Tools

3 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Access Data: –Raw data files on disk or remote location (URL, THREDDS, OPeNDAP, etc…) Services: –Easy to use dialogs for remote services distributed over web services (REST, WMS, WFS, OPeNDAP, NetCDF Subset Service, etc…)

4 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Data Currently: NEXRAD (Level-II and Level-III) GOES Satellite Coming soon: GRIB, GINI, Generic NetCDF: –Feature types of Grid, Swath, Radial, Time Series, Point, etc…

5 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Services Currently: U.S. Drought Monitor Coming soon: Severe Weather Data Inventory NOMADS (Model Data) Climate Data Online NEXRAD Mosaic Archive (RIDGE) Multi-Sensor Precipitation Totals

6 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Data Access NEXRAD Radar Data from NCDC: Tutorials Available!

7 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Data Access GOES Satellite Data from NOAA CLASS System: Tutorials Available!

8 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 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)

9 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Visualization GOES Infrared with Blue Marble Web Map Service (WMS) background map

10 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Visualization Smoothed NEXRAD Reflectivity Data

11 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Visualization GOES Full Disk Infrared

12 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Visualization U.S. Drought Monitor service from NIDIS/NDMC (National Drought Mitigation Center)

13 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 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)

14 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Applications Level-II NEXRAD Reflectivity data from Hurricane Charley in ESRI ArcScene. Data exported to a point Shapefile with an exaggerated height attribute.

15 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Applications GOES Satellite Imagery from Hurricane Rita landfall in Google Earth

16 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Applications GOES Satellite Imagery from Hurricane Rita landfall, exported as ASCII GRID, in ArcGIS

17 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Applications Command-line batch processing of data export

18 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Applications Public domain / open source API

19 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Contact Thank you! Questions? WCT Website: Contact: (828) Patton Ave. Asheville, NC 28801