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| Sea State Analysis | A graphical product depicting sea state conditions over the North Atlantic and Pacific Ocean Basins. Features such as the location of the ice edge and the isopleths for wave heights and arrows for swell direction are depicted. | SSA.pdf |
| Sierra Backcountry Forecast | The Sierra Backcountry Forecast is a web based text product produced by forecasters in support of the Sierra Avalanche Center and the Central Sierra Avalanche Center. The product provides forecasted parameters critical to accurately forecasting avalanche conditions by the Sierra Avalanche Centers. The elements forecasted include temperatures, winds, and sky/weather, all of which affect the stability of the snowpack, changes in the snowpack structure, and ultimately avalanche potential. | RenoSierrabackcountryPDD3.pdf |
| Significant Meteorological Information (SIGMET) | SIGMETs are concise, brief descriptions of the development and occurrence or expected occurrence in time and space of specified en-route weather phenomena which may affect the safety of all aircraft operations. | SIGMET.pdf |
| Space Weather for Aviation Service Providers | The Space Environment Center (SEC) Space Weather for Aviation Service Providers web page combines graph and text presentations of near real-time solar and geophysical parameters of interest to the aviation industry. This page incorporates products and models which are driven by data and imagery from ground-based and space-based observations. The Space Weather for Aviation Service Providers web page displays retrieved and reformatted existing SEC products. | Space24hrfcstPDD.pdf |
| Special Marine Warning | An alphanumeric product issued from all WFOs with Marine responsibility. The product is issued to provide notification of short duration marine hazards such as waterspouts, thunderstorms, or hail. | SMW.pdf |
| Standardized WFO, Regional, and National Climate Web Pages | Once implemented, this standardization of climate information (regarding what type is provided and where it?s located on NWS Web pages) will enable our users to consistently find climate data no matter which NWS level (WFO, regional, or national) they access via the Web. | RegionalandNationalWebPages.pdf |
| 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. | SPCDay3-8FireWeatherOutlook.pdf |
| Surf Zone Forecast | An alphanumeric product issued from selected WFOs with coastal waters marine responsibility. The product provides information on surf, water, any potential marine hazards such as rip currents, and the general weather conditions within the surf zone. | SZF.pdf |
| Surface Analysis | A graphical product depicting of significant surface features over the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean Basins north of 15 degrees north. Features such as the location of high and low pressure systems, frontal positions, and the analyzed locations of any existing Tropical Cyclones are included. | SurfaceAnalysis.pdf |
| Surface Temperature Analysis and Anomaly | The Sea Surface Temperature Analysis (SST) and Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies (SSTA)are graphical products depicting sea surface water temperatures and departure from normal.
WFO Honolulu produces the SST for the North Pacific (area bounded by equator to 55N and 110W to 160E) and the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Environmental
Modeling Center (EMC) produces the SST for both the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific(area bounded by 10S to 50N and 0 to 180 longitude) and the SSTA product for the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific (area bounded by 10S to 50N and 0 W to 180 W longitude). | STAA.pdf |
| Tabular Product Evolution in eXtensible Markup Language - Derived Selected Cities Summary Products | TPEX-derived Selected Cities Summary (SCS) products are created from three eXtensible Markup Language (XML) products:
ObX - hourly observations
FOX3 - highly summarized 3 day forecasts
TEX - observed National high/low temperatures
The TPEX-derived SCS products are created using an eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) style sheet and mimic the legacy SCS products
| TPEXPDDFinal_5.pdf |
| Tabular Product Evolution in eXtensible Markup Language Products | Four eXtensible Markup Language (XML) products have been created using the forecast information contained in the National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) for those cities currently contained in the Selected Cities Summary (SCS):
ObX - hourly observations
FOX3 - highly summarized 3 day forecasts
FOX7 -highly summarized 7 day forecasts
TEX - observed National high/low temperatures
These products can be used as is, or user defined format products (text, HTML, etc.) can be created using eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) style sheets. We hope our users and partners will migrate away from legacy text products (e.g., SCS, etc.) to the new XML products.
| TPEXPDDFinal_5.pdf |
| Tactical Convective Hazard Product (TCHP) | The TCHP provides a graphical presentation of thunderstorm hazards to aviation operations. It depicts current hazardous thunderstorms and a one-hour forecast of hazardous thunderstorm locations. The TCHP updates automatically every 5 minutes. The product is created from radar and lightning data as well as human-generated Convective SIGMET in-flight advisories (SIGMETs updated hourly). | TCHPTJAUpdate.pdf |
| Tactical Decision Aid | The Tactical Decision Aid (TDA) web page for the Terminal Radar Approach Controller (TRACON) highlights forecasts of thunderstorm potential for the TRACON?s aircraft arrival corner posts. These forecasts will be updated hourly during periods of convective weather (occurring or forecast) and every four hours during periods of no convective weather. Forecasts will cover a 4 hour time frame. Forecast output will be a color-coded, bar graph indicating the hourly probability of thunderstorm activity at each corner post during the upcoming 4 hour period. | ZSEPDD_TDA_final.pdf |
| TAFB Marine Weather Discussion (MIM) | Plain language free text discussion of computer model trends which focuses on expected wind and sea conditions. The product is used as a coordination vehicle among the national centers and coastal Weather Forecast Offices. | TAFBMarineWeatherDiscussion.pdf |
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