1. GIS Tools at Climate Prediction Center April 20, 2010 Brad Pugh, CPC

2. Why GIS?  User requests for CPC products in GIS format are rapidly increasing.  CPC & National Integrated Drought Info System (NIDIS): CPC products are heavily used in the preparation of the US Drought Monitor. The USDM authors need CPC data in GIS format.  CPC & The NOAA Climate Services: Prepare CPC products for dissemination via the Climate Services portal.

3. Products Created Using GIS  U.S. Drought Monitor  North America Drought Monitor  U.S. Drought Outlook  Verification of U.S. Drought Outlook (Future)  Weather Hazards for Famine Early Warning System  Haiti Relief Effort Weather Support – Week 2  MJO/Global Tropical Hazards

4. CPC’s Support of United States Agency for International Development

5. The Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) Program CPC has the lead in developing the “Weekly Weather Hazards” for Africa, Central America, Hispaniola and Afghanistan. GIS allows CPC to import data from our various partner agencies around the world (e.g., refugee camps, roads, locations of agriculture, etc) to ensure a more accurate analysis. CPC’s users can import CPC’s GIS data into their systems to better identify areas in need of humanitarian aid. AfricaAfghanistan Central America & Caribbean

6. Hazards Assessment for Africa

7. Global Tropics Hazards Assessment This assessment is based on the current atmospheric/oceanic state and uses the forecasted evolution of the MJO as input. The 1 and 2-week outlook predicts areas of enhanced/ suppressed rainfall and also regions where conditions favor tropical cyclone development for the global tropics. Product developed using ArcMap/ArcInfo

8. NIDIS Drought Portal ( www.drought.gov) CPC drought products are part of the National Integrated Drought Information System

9. Two ArcGIS Servers have been installed on the NOAA/WOC CPC plans to start development on the WOC in June/July 2010 and transfer products that are currently available via the GeoServer to the ArcGIS Server Shapefiles are currently created using IDL, but soon the newest version of GrADS will be used to create the shapefiles GrADS will be the primary software to create CPC GIS layers (Shapefile and GeoTIFF). CPC-NCO-WOC: GIS Project http://www.cpcgis.ncep.noaa.gov/ Geoserver

10.  CMORPH_DLY (daily)- satellite estimated precip  QMORPH_8km (hourly)- satellite estimated precip  PREC_FORECAST (daily)- GFS based (1 & 2 week forecasts)  SST (weekly)  SPI (3, 6, 9, 12, 24 months – updated daily) Various GeoTiff Files Available ftp://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/GIS/GRADS_GIS/GeoTIFF/

11. Data View and Download Page: Prototype (available by July) CPC GIS Portal: Under Development Collaboration with the NOS/Special Project Office View GeoTiff Files Please contact Viviane.Silva@noaa.gov

12. GrADS - GeoTIFF Example: CPC Global Precipitation Analysis

14. Mexico/U.S. Station Distribution for