1 the noaa weather and climate toolkit steve ansari, stephen del greco (noaa / ncdc) mark phillips...
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The NOAA Weather and Climate Toolkit
Steve Ansari, Stephen Del Greco (NOAA / NCDC)Mark Phillips (UNC-Asheville / NEMAC)
Bill Hankins (STG Inc.)
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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…)
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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.
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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)
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Visualization
GOES Infrared Water Vapor with Blue Marble Web Map Service (WMS) background map
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Visualization
Smoothed NEXRAD Reflectivity Data
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Visualization
U.S. Drought Monitor service from NIDIS/NDMC (National Drought Mitigation Center)
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Visualization
Sea Surface Temperature (NetCDF data over OPeNDAP)
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Visualization
Sea Surface Temperature Animation(NetCDF data over OPeNDAP)
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Visualization
• New Feature:– Internal Google Earth Instance
(Currently Windows Only)
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Visualization
Hurricane Andrew: NCDC GridSat Climate Data Record (CDR).
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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)
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Applications
Level-II NEXRAD Reflectivity data from Hurricane Charley in ESRI ArcScene.
Data exported to a point Shapefile with an exaggerated height attribute.
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Applications
GOES Satellite Imagery from Hurricane Rita landfall, exported as ASCII GRID, in ArcGIS
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Applications
GOES Satellite Imagery from Hurricane Rita landfall in Google Earth
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Applications
• New Features:– 3D Radar Sweeps in Google Earth
• Drapes rendered image on COLLADA model(Similar to 3D building models)
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Applications
Hurricane Charley: 3D Radar Reflectivity in Google Earth
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Applications
Hurricane Katrina: 3D Radar Reflectivity in Google Earth
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Applications
Hurricane Katrina: 3D Radar Reflectivity in Google Earth(Movie – click to start…)
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Applications
Command-line batch processing of data export
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Applications
Public domain / open source API
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Contact
Thank you! Questions?
WCT Website: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/wct
Contact:[email protected]
(828) 271-4611
151 Patton Ave.
Asheville, NC 28801
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