1. NDFD and NDGD NDFD Central Server Upgrade In OSIP (Gate 2 in March) In OSIP (Gate 2 in March) Funding split between AWIPS and OCWWS Funding split between AWIPS and OCWWS Upgrade necessary to: Upgrade necessary to: –replace 6 year old out-of-warranty servers –provide hourly resolution (#1 customer request) –provide 2.5 km grids –provide additional elements

2. NDFD and NDGD GMOS Default in NDFD Without GMOS With GMOS

3. NDFD and NDGD GMOS Quality Control http://www.mdl.nws.noaa.gov/~lamp/index.php

4. NDFD and NDGD The Very Limited Reach of Weather.gov Nabbing a bigger piece of the pie for ourselves NDFD images 2.5km point n’ click text Hourly meteograms Wx icons Interactive weather planner Wx story of day......

5. NDFD and NDGD HAMweather Civil Aviation Weather Bug Weather Underground Google Maps ESRI GIS AccuWeather Custom Weather The Weather Network Weather Central TV QuickCast Dow Home Products FORECA Energy Production Hurricane Alley PASDA Map Services Fire Danger nowCOAST Univ of Texas Astronomy Hydro One Web Icons University Research State Government Federal Agencies Agricultural Weather Armed Forces The Unlimited Reach of NDFD The Unlimited Reach of NDFD Real Estate Data Sharewar e Chumby Growing the pie via via digital services (GRIB, GIS, XML)

6. NDFD and NDGD NDFD downloads GRIB2 100,000 files/day 100,000 files/day ~200 users ~200 users SOAP/XML 2,000,000 requests/day 2,000,000 requests/day ~10,000 users ~10,000 users