1. Climate Monitoring Tools High Plains Regional Climate Center
Christy Carlson
Regional Climatologist

2. Applied Climate Information System
Applied Climate Information System (ACIS)
NOAA Regional Climate Centers (RCCs)
A framework for management of metadata and climate data
Ingest, Quality Control, and Archive
Multiple Datasets
Networked/Robust System
Distributed Data Management
Manages climate data (so you don’t have to!)

3. Applied Climate Information System
ACIS provides a platform for suites of climate products
CLIMOD (RCCs)
xmACIS (NWS)
NOWData (NWS)
AgACIS (NRCS)
For More Information, please see

4. Current Climate Summary Maps
Produced Daily at HPRCC
Maps produced on a National, Regional and State Level
Products produced include:
Precipitation (Total, Departure from Normal, % of Normal, SPI)
Temperature (Average, HDD, CDD, Departure from Normal)
Over 2000 Maps produced each day

9. Gridded SPI Product Produced for the NDMC Updated Daily
Available through Current Climate Summary Maps interface
30, 60, 90, 6-month, 12-month, From Jan 1 (current year) and From October 1 (water year) updated daily.
Last Month, Last 3 Months, and Last 12 months available (updated monthly)
Uses Stations with at-least 30-years of data
Cressman Interpolation (computationally fast)
0.4 Degree Grid Resolution

10. Station-Level Products
Station Metadata
Dynamic Visualizations using data from ACIS
SPI Time-Series Product (in development)
Soil Moisture products available for AWDN stations (10, 25, 50 and 100cm depths, root zone water)

16. NDMC Drought Atlas
Connections to ACIS for Current Climate Data (Online Atlas)
Quality Control
Dynamic Station-Level climate data and time-series graphics for online interface

18. XML-RPC Connections to ACIS
eXtensible Markup Language – Remote Procedure Call
Provides dynamic methods of retrieving climate data
Any framework that has XML-RPC capabilities can make client calls to any RCC XML-RPC server
Intended for dynamic online interfaces

20. Future Expand Station-Level and Spatial product offerings
‘Favorite’ stations lists
Automated report generation (via , ftp, etc)
Customized XML-RPC connections to ACIS for other organizations
Online GIS interface to Current Climate Summary Products
Linking of station-level time-series information to spatial products
Ability to save favorite views/products and quickly cover areas of interest
Downloadable files in multiple formats for Products (GIS, CSV, PDF, JPG, PNG, etc)
Improve Quality Control of Real-Time Data in ACIS

21. Thank You HPRCC Website ACIS Information http://hprcc.unl.edu