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NDFD Central Server UpgradeNDFD Central Server Upgrade

• In OSIP (Gate 2 in March) In OSIP (Gate 2 in March)

• Funding split between AWIPS and OCWWS Funding split between AWIPS and OCWWS

• Upgrade necessary to:Upgrade necessary to:– replace 6 year old out-of-warranty serversreplace 6 year old out-of-warranty servers

– provide hourly resolution (#1 customer request)provide hourly resolution (#1 customer request)

– provide 2.5 km gridsprovide 2.5 km grids

– provide additional elementsprovide additional elements

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GMOS Default in NDFDGMOS Default in NDFD

Without GMOS With GMOS

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GMOS Quality ControlGMOS Quality Control

http://www.mdl.nws.noaa.gov/~lamp/index.php

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The Very Limited Reach of Weather.govThe Very Limited Reach of Weather.gov

Nabbing a bigger Nabbing a bigger piece of the pie for piece of the pie for ourselvesourselves

NDFD imagesNDFD images2.5km point n’ click text2.5km point n’ click textHourly meteogramsHourly meteogramsWx iconsWx iconsInteractive weather plannerInteractive weather plannerWx story of dayWx story of day............

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HAMweather

Civil Aviation

Weather Bug

Weather UndergroundGoogle Maps

ESRI GIS

AccuWeather

Custom WeatherThe Weather Network

Weather Central TV

QuickCast

Dow Home Products

FORECA

Energy Production

Hurricane Alley

PASDA Map Services

Fire Danger

nowCOAST

Univ of Texas Astronomy

Hydro One

Web Icons

University Research

State Government

Federal Agencies

Agricultural Weather

Armed Forces

The Unlimited Reach of NDFDThe Unlimited Reach of NDFDReal Estate Data

Shareware

Chumby

Growing the pieGrowing the pie viaviadigital services digital services (GRIB, GIS, XML)(GRIB, GIS, XML)

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NDFD downloadsNDFD downloads

GRIB2GRIB2

• 100,000 files/day100,000 files/day• ~200 users~200 users

SOAP/XMLSOAP/XML

• 2,000,000 requests/day2,000,000 requests/day• ~10,000 users~10,000 users