| Product Name |
Brief Description
|
Operational Date |
| National Fire Weather Web Page |
The ability of the National Weather Service (NWS)
to provide digital and graphic fire weather
products and services over the internet continues
to increase. Concurrently, the need for improved
fire weather information on the internet by land
management and fire suppression agencies also
continues to increase. Multiple federal fire
weather user agencies have expressed a need for
an improved national fire weather web page that
includes more interactive graphics. OS/22 Fire
and Public Weather Branch began testing a new,
highly interactive national fire weather web page
October 1, 2009. Because existing fire weather
information is bundled and/or presented in new
formats, the national fire weather web page is
considered a new experimental service |
2013-04-23 |
| Space Weather Forecast Discussion |
Plain language Space Weather Forecast Discussion
bulletin detailing recently observed space
weather data, model guidance, and plain text
forecaster rationale to compliment to the new
3-Day Space Weather Forecast product, tailored to
sophisticated users and scientific perspectives |
2013-04-22 |
| 3 Day Space Weather Forecast |
A 3-Day Space Weather Forecast product to relay
forecast information about anticipated space
weather activity, in formats consistent with
existing NOAA Scale thresholds and tailored to a
government decision maker perspective. |
2013-04-22 |
| NOAA NWS RFC Soil Moisture Model Output |
The North Central River Forecast Center (NCRFC)
has been exploring usability of National Weather
Service (NWS) river forecast model soil moisture
model output for applications beyond river flood
forecasting. This valuable output could be used
to support various activities related to economic
cost savings for industry sectors involved in land
resource management. |
2013-04-15 |
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2013-04-15 |
| Cold Advisory for Newborn Livestock (CANL) Graphic |
In the winter of 2008-2009,NWS Glasgow ran this
system. Due to significant livestock losses in
other areas of the high plains during the winter
of 2008-2009, additional NWS offices joined the
experimental test period for the
2009-2010,2010-2011,and 2011-12 winter seasons
including:
WFO Aberdeen, SD
WFO Billings, MT
WFO Bismarck, ND
WFO Glasgow, MT
WFO Great Falls, MT
WFO Pocatello, ID
WFO Pendleton, OR
Durint the 2011-2012 experimental test period,
NWS surveyed other entities in the weather
enterprise for their interest in providing this
type of service to the livestock industry. |
2013-03-19 |
| Fire Weather Planning Forecast (FWF) Text Format |
Customer feedback from the Pacific Northwest test
in 2011 was all positive. Based on those
responses, the test has been expanded to include
all WFOs in Western Region optionally, based on
office need and customer concurrence. Each office
that chooses to test this format in 2012 per the
dates above will issue their own Service Change
Notice.
This FWF text format utilizes left-justified
asterisks to begin each line of text. The
asterisks help maintain proper word wrapping and
indentations in the AWIPS text editor,
significantly reducing the amount of time needed
to post edit the product before dissemination.
|
2013-02-26 |
| WFO WRF_NMM |
The WRF NMM is run locally at the WFO. It
generates hourly output data out to 48 hours.
The high resolution model is used for operational
forecasting and research. Model Output graphics,
generated by GEMPAK software, are posted for 3
hourly forecast time steps to a local WFO web
page. The fields include geopotential heights,
vorticity, temperatures, dew point, relative
humidity, wind, vertical velocity, freezing
level, precipitation amount and type, seal level
pressure, thickness, clouds, precipitable water,
convective available potential energy (CAPE), and
convective inhibition (CIN). The web page is a
convenient way for the local customers to view
the same meteorological forecast data as the
local WFO forecaster. This model has been run
operationally at WFO Sacramento since May 2009
and the PDD is being expanded to provide this
capability to other WFOs in the WR. |
2013-02-26 |
| Hydrologic Short-Term Meteorological Model-based Ensemble Forecasting System (MMEFS) |
The National Weather Service (NWS) Meteorological
Model Ensemble River Forecasts web pages,
graphics and text products are being produced by
Eastern Region River Forecast Centers (RFCs) and
the Southeast RFC to provide useful hydrologic
information to users. The objective of this
information is to provide short lead-time (<7
days) ensemble river forecasts using forcing
fields provided by various meteorological
ensemble systems.The purpose of the ensemble
river forecasts is to provide users with a
short-term (<7 days) situational awareness by
providing the probabilistic exceedence
information relative to NWS flood categories and
providing the ensemble river forecasts that in
turn show a range of outcomes. These web pages
complement information contained in the current
short-term deterministic hydrologic forecasts and
internal NWS WFO-requested subjective contingency
forecasts. This service will support the NOAA
mission goals of serving society’s need for
weather and water information and supporting the
nation’s commerce, economy, and planning for the
protection of life and property. |
2013-01-08 |
| Maximum/Minimum Relative Humidity NDFD Grid |
Daily Maximum Relative Humidity and Minimum
Relative Humidity
grids are available in the NDFD on an operational
basis. These elements are available for the
entire U.S. including Alaska and Hawaii.
The elements are automatically derived from
existing Weather Forecast Office (WFO) hourly
temperature and hourly dew point grids. Maximum
Relative Humidity is calculated from 06Z to 18Z,
and Minimum Relative Humidity is calculated from
18Z to 06Z.
|
2012-11-27 |
| Enhancement to the National Snow Analysis: Experimental NOHRC Snow Model and Forecast Products Expansion |
The NOHRSC is expanding the spatial domain of its
gridded snow model into Canada to include the
Great Lakes drainage area. Additionally, the
NOHRSC is executing the model in a 72-hour
forecast mode. The Rapid Refresh (RR) model
forces the first 18 forecast hours and the North
American Mesoscale (NAM) model forces the
remaining 54 forecast hours. |
2012-10-27 |
| Area Fire Weather Forecast Matrix (AFW) for WFO GSP |
Land management agencies in Georgia, North
Carolina and South Carolina have expressed a need
for easily accessible tabular forecast data
similar to the Point Fire Weather Forecast Matrix
(PFW), except that it encompass an entire fire
weather zone instead of just a point. The
requirement is for something similar to the
existing Area Forecast Matrix (AFM), but with
fire weather/smoke management parameters
included. It would be tailored to facilitate
fire behavior applications in the planning stage
by land managers. An area fire weather matrix
would satisfy this need well because it would
allow agency specialists to quickly run sample
fire behavior models for planning purposes for
random areas outside of PFW forecast points. The
experimental product will be called the Area Fire
Weather Forecast Matrix (AFW) and would be
generated routinely for all 56 zones in the WFO
Greenville-Spartanburg (GSP) county warning area.
(CWA)
: The experimental AFW is produced by running a
modified AFM formatter that uses the local
digital forecast data base (DFD). The product
will be generated via a GFE automation script
every time grids are published by a forecaster. A
script will also post the AFW to the WFO GSP
website. No additional grids or forecaster
intervention will be required. |
2012-10-27 |
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