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

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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 Marrajohn.marra@noaa.gov

Sea Level Stationssealevelstations.org

Uday Kariuday.kari@noaa.gov

Lynn Nakagawalynn.nakagawa@noaa.gov

(808) 944-7432

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