1. 1 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 The NOAA Weather and Climate Toolkit Steve Ansari, Chad Hutchins, Stephen Del Greco (NOAA / NCDC) Mark Phillips (UNC-Asheville / NEMAC) Nina Stroumentova (STG Inc.)

2. 2 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 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…) Successor to Java NEXRAD Tools

3. 3 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Access Data: –Raw data files on disk or remote location (URL, THREDDS, OPeNDAP, etc…) Services: –Easy to use dialogs for remote services distributed over web services (REST, WMS, WFS, OPeNDAP, NetCDF Subset Service, etc…)

4. 4 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Data Currently: NEXRAD (Level-II and Level-III) GOES Satellite Coming soon: GRIB, GINI, Generic NetCDF: –Feature types of Grid, Swath, Radial, Time Series, Point, etc…

5. 5 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Services Currently: U.S. Drought Monitor Coming soon: Severe Weather Data Inventory NOMADS (Model Data) Climate Data Online NEXRAD Mosaic Archive (RIDGE) Multi-Sensor Precipitation Totals

6. 6 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Data Access NEXRAD Radar Data from NCDC: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/nexradinv/ Tutorials Available!

7. 7 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Data Access GOES Satellite Data from NOAA CLASS System: http://www.class.ncdc.noaa.gov Tutorials Available!

8. 8 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 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)

9. 9 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Visualization GOES Infrared with Blue Marble Web Map Service (WMS) background map

10. 10 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Visualization Smoothed NEXRAD Reflectivity Data

11. 11 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Visualization GOES Full Disk Infrared

12. 12 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Visualization U.S. Drought Monitor service from NIDIS/NDMC (National Drought Mitigation Center)

13. 13 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 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)

14. 14 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Applications Level-II NEXRAD Reflectivity data from Hurricane Charley in ESRI ArcScene. Data exported to a point Shapefile with an exaggerated height attribute.

15. 15 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Applications GOES Satellite Imagery from Hurricane Rita landfall in Google Earth

16. 16 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Applications GOES Satellite Imagery from Hurricane Rita landfall, exported as ASCII GRID, in ArcGIS

17. 17 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Applications Command-line batch processing of data export

18. 18 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Applications Public domain / open source API

19. 19 86 th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting Atlanta, Georgia January 29 – February 2, 2006 Contact Thank you! Questions? WCT Website: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/wct Contact: Steve.Ansari@noaa.gov (828) 271-4611 151 Patton Ave. Asheville, NC 28801