NOAA Science on a SphereUser’s Collaborative Network Workshop
NOAA IDEA CenterLynn Nakagawa
Honolulu, HawaiiJuly 29, 2008 - July 30, 2008
NOAA IDEA Center• Where do we fit?
– Organizationally: NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC but with a NOAA-wide mission
– Relevant NOAA Mission Goals:• Understand Climate Variability and Change to Enhance
Society’s Ability to Plan and Respond• Serve Society’s Needs for Weather and Water Information (risk
management)• Protect, Restore and Manage the Use of Coastal and Ocean
Resources (marine & coastal ecosystems)– NOAA Functional Activities:
• Monitor and Observe (GCOS, GOOS, PacIOOS) • Assess and Predict (climate as an initial focus)• Engage, Advise and Inform (integrated environmental data
products and information services)
An Initial Program Element
Development of new integrated data products and environmental applications, and supporting high priority regional and NOAA needs for enhancedinformation on:
Climate vulnerability and adaptation
Coastal and marine ecosystems
Hazards risk management
Analyze patterns and trends of storm frequency and intensity - “storminess”- in historical records collected
throughout the Pacific region; integrate the results of these analyses; and develop a suite of information products that can be used by emergency managers, mitigation planners,
and other decision-makers.
Data Integration and Visualization: Pacific Region Integrated Climatology Information
Products (PRICIP)
Historical “Event Anatomies” *
PRICIP Tailored Information Products
NOWCASTS
FORECASTS
FUTURECASTS
HINDCASTS
o 6 Deathso 100+ Injuredo 14,356 Homes
damaged or destroyedo 4 weeks after the stormonly 20% of the residents had power
Hurricane InikiSeptember 5-13, 1992
Impacts
Climatology
At 3:30 pm HST, the eye of Iniki crossed the south coast of Kauai and departed on the north coast about 40 minutes later. Estimated maximum sustained winds over land were 140 miles per hour with gusts as high as 175 miles per hour, making INIKI the most powerful hurricane to strike the Hawaiian Islands in recent history…
Winds sustained - 140 mph gusts - 175 mph
* This mock-up contains information from NOAA and other sources.
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Major Hurricanes Hurricanes Tropical Storms
pricip.org
pricip.org
Project Goals• Expose Sea Level Station MetaData
--Data schema -- Semantic (Plain English) -- Formal XML Schema (XSD)
• Harvest WWL Data--Remote Procedures Specification--Web Service Desc Language (WSDL)--Prototype Implementation
Sea Level StationsA Tsunami Focused Data Sharing Framework
Google Earth
sealevelstations.org
Touch Table
•GIS data: –Drought Monitor–GOES Satellite–NEXRAD Radar
•The Weather and Climate Toolkit: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/wct/
–Shapefile–GeoTIFF–KMZ
•Formats used b ArcGIS & Google Earth
Touch Table
Magic Planet
PRICIPpricip.org
John [email protected]
Sea Level Stationssealevelstations.org
Uday [email protected]
Lynn [email protected]
(808) 944-7432
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