| Product Name |
Brief Description
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Originator |
| Precipitation Potential Index |
The Precipitation Potential Index will display
graphically on the internet. The graphic is a
means to show forecaster confidence as to the
location of precipitation at each hour across the
CWA. It is intended to supplement the 12 hour POP
and weather grids. |
Alan Rezek |
| WR Climate Web Page |
The WR Climate Web Page provides a single web
based interface for the public to more easily
access official climate forecasts, climate
products and daily weather summaries currently
issued as part of the routine suite of NWS
services. |
Andrea Bair |
| Western Region Headquarter Web Site/Page |
The Western Region (WR) Headquarter Web Site/Page
provides access to a description of Western
Region Headquarters (WRHQ) and resources, a
summary of current watch/warnings in effect, and
some visual pages that provide links to WR
offices and other National Weather Service (NWS)
sites. |
Andy Edman or Chelsea Leader |
| Fire Weather Watch/Warning Display |
The Fire Weather "Red Flag" Watch/Warning Display
provides an HTML visual display of all fire
weather "Red Flag" watch/warnings that are
currently in effect across the western U.S. |
Andy Edman or Chelsea Leader |
| IFPS Digital Forecast Page |
The IFPS Digital Forecast Page provides an
interface for the public to access weather
information from the NWS gridded forecast (IFPS)
database. The gridded forecast is maintained 24/7
by all 24 Western Region Forecast Offices as part
of the national NWS IFPS program. |
Andy Edman/ Don Britton/Carl Gorski |
| PHX Drought Data Page |
The PHX Drought Data Page was developed in
response to a request from the Arizona Governors
Drought Task Force. The product provides a
single web based interface for users to more
easily access precipitation data from the state
for purposes of "decision making" as related to
the ongoing drought in Arizona. |
Anton Haffer |
| Non Technical Format of the Winter Low Tracks Graphic |
The National Weather Service (NWS) National
Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)
Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC)
Winter Weather Desk (WWD) issues a forecast of
significant surface low positions twice daily.
This graphic is known as the Winter Low Tracks
Graphic. The Winter Low Tracks Graphic depicts
over the contiguous U.S. (CONUS) the HPC forecast
position of significant surface lows in 12 hour
increments out to 72 hours. Uncertainty in the
HPC forecast low position is depicted by
including the forecast low position from model
guidance available to the HPC forecaster |
Art Thomas |
| Storm Prediction Center Day 3-8 Fire Weather Outlook Guidance |
This Product Description Document concerns SPC
issuance of Day 3-8 fire weather outlooks to
provide national guidance on a critical public
safety issue for media, emergency managers,
local National Weather Service Forecast Offices
and ultimately the United States public. This
product will help its customers to adequately
prepare several days in advance for the potential
of significant fire weather conditions. This
product enhancement is aligned with the NOAA
Strategic Objective for FY2005-2010 to “Improve
predictability of the onset, duration and impact
of hazardous severe weather and water events” and
its experimental initiation was part of the 2005
NWS Service Improvement Plan. |
Art Thomas |
| National Air Quality Forecast System (AQFS) Smoke Forecast Graphic Display |
The National Weather Service�s National Air
Quality Forecast System (AQFS) Wildland Fire
Smoke Forecast (WFSF) Experimental Graphic
Display is a web-based presentation of gridded
forecast smoke dispersion guidance produced by
NOAA's Air Resources Laboratory and Environmental
Modeling Center (EMC) of the National
Environmental Prediction (NCEP)and using the
HYSPLIT dispersion model. The dispersion model
is preconfigured to run over the entire country
once-a-day using the 0600 UTC NAM meteorological
forecast. Hourly average output maps of primary
PM2.5 air concentration are produced using the
actual fire locations from the previous day
obtained from NOAA�s NESDIS Hazard Mapping
System. The dispersion simulation consists of two
parts: 1) a 24 h analysis simulation run for the
previous day, and 2) a 48 h forecast simulation,
which assumes that yesterday's fires will
continue to burn for the next two days. The smoke
particle positions at the end of each analysis
period are used to initialize the next day's
analysis simulation. |
Art Thomas |
| RIDGE – Radar Integrated Display with Geospatial Elements (National) |
NWS is responsible to make its weather, water and
climate information widely available to taxpayers
using commonly accepted standards and
technologies. Currently, the NWS provides weather
radar information for all Weather Service Doppler
Radars (WSR 88-D) in the United States on the NWS
Internet page.
The National Weather Service Southern Region,
working in cooperation with North Central Texas
Council of Governments, has developed a method to
display radar images more efficiently than the
previous method. These radar images, call RIDGE
(Radar Integrated Display with Geospatial
Elements), allows the radar image to be combined
with geospatial elements such as topography maps,
highways, and county boundaries. This not only
produces a better image, but provides additional
reference information for users to understand
where they are located. RIDGE also adds the
ability to overlay polygon warnings issued by the
National Weather Service Forecast Offices.
|
Arthur Thomas |
| Regional/Local Seasonal Forecast |
Regional/Local Seasonal Forecasts may be textual
or graphical. They typically consist of
short-term climate variability forecasts and
monitoring data, and meteorological/hydrological
interpretation and assessment of societal impact
on a web page. These web pages will normally
provide educational material to help users
understand the forecast methodology and
reliability to better aid preparedness and
mitigation efforts. The web page will typically
assimilate a wide variety of information on
short-term climate variability for the forecast
area such as links to official NOAA/NWS forecasts
and experimental, locally/regionally produced
graphical/textual monitoring products. The area
covered by the forecast may be a commonly
accepted political or geographical location such
as a state, county or region, or it may be a
uniquely defined in which case the area will be
made explicitly clear on a map on the web page.
An example of such a seasonal forecast product
suite is the "Florida EL Nino - Southern
Oscillation (ENSO) Home Page Featuring:
2002-2003 Experimental Dry Season Forecast for
Florida (Valid for period November 1st 2002
through April 30th 2003)" produced by WFO
Melbourne, Florida and available on the Internet
at:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mlb/enso/mlbnino.html |
Bart Hagemeyer |
| Gridded Graphical Hazardous Weather Outlook |
The Melbourne Weather Forecast Office (WFO)
Gridded Graphical Hazardous Weather Outlook
(gHWO) complements the text Hazardous Weather
Outlook (HWO) by providing a graphical depiction
of threat levels for the following hazards:
lightning, tornado, wind, hail, (flash) flood,
excessive heat, excessive cold, high wind, dense
fog/smoke, fire weather, rip current, coastal
flood, waterspout, marine wind/sea, and marine
thunderstorm gust. The threat impacts are
specific to the WFO county warning area (CWA) and
marine area of responsibility (MAOR), and depict
the geographical distribution and level of threat
of each hazard. |
Bart Hagemeyer |
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