gis in the national weather service jason m. straub national weather service brownsville
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GIS in the National Weather Service
Jason M. StraubNational Weather Service Brownsville
National Weather Service – Weather Forecast Offices
Internal Use:
Radar Operations Center: Wind Turbine Impacts to Doppler Weather Radar
GIS use in screening and analyzing wind farm interaction with WSR-88D.
NOAA: National Weather Service
Internal Use: Situation Awareness Displays
Past Present
Google Earth Pro
Publicly available data
• www.weather.gov/gis– The National Weather Service’s
repository for Shapefile and KML data
• water.weather.gov–Daily precipitation shapefile
Shapefiles
• Weather Warnings• Flash flood and precipitation guidance• Hurricane tracks and storm surge, and
past hurricane tracks• Severe weather reports database
Severe weather report database
KML
• NWS radar– Single image or loops– Multiple radars/nationwide imagery– Numerous products (radar, velocity, accumulated
precip) • Current Weather Watches and Warnings– Automatically updated– Provides the text product associated with the
advisory
KML
• Local point forecast– Provides the graphical forecast for any point in the
continental U.S.
KML
• Hurricane data– Past tropical cyclone tracks– Tropical cyclone forecast models
Coming Soon
• Daily High/Low/Precipitation
• Hourly observations
Any Questions??
Jason M. StraubMeteorologist
National Weather Service, Brownsvillejason.straub@noaa.gov
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