GIS Tools at Climate Prediction Center

April 20, 2010

Brad Pugh, CPC

Why GIS?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.

Products Created Using GISU.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

CPC’s Support of United States Agency for

International Development

The Famine Early Warning SystemThe Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) Program (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.

Africa Afghanistan

Central America & Caribbean

Hazards Assessment for AfricaHazards Assessment for Africa

Global Tropics Global Tropics Hazards AssessmentHazards 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

NIDIS Drought Portal(www.drought.gov)

CPC drought products CPC drought products are part of the National are part of the National Integrated Drought Integrated Drought Information SystemInformation System

• 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

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/

Data View and Download Page: Prototype(available by July)

CPC GIS Portal: Under DevelopmentCollaboration with the NOS/Special Project Office

View GeoTiff Files

Please contact Viviane.Silva@noaa.gov