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| NOAA Weather Radio Podcasts | The NWS is responsible for making its weather, water and climate information widely available to taxpayers using commonly accepted standards and technologies. Currently, the NWS provides only limited audio broadcasts of their NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards (NWR) via the Internet.
The Voice Improvement Program (VIP) software on the NWR is able to convert the text transmitted to the Console Replacement System (CRS) into MPEG audio Layer-3 (MP3) files. Southern Region NWS offices are making these MP3 files available on the Internet as podcasts. Podcasting allows for publishing of audio programs to the internet and subsequent downloading of these programs to a personal computer or MP3 device. Users subscribe to the NWR podcast by using a freely available podcasting application that downloads the MP3 file automatically using an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed. Podcasting applications typically check for new content (new MP3 files) at user defined intervals. Once downloaded, the user can then listen to the podcast at his/her leisure (versus a radio broadcast of NWR).
| SRpodpdd1.pdf |
| 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 | lowtrackpdd.pdf |
| NWS Current Observations Using RSS and XML Based Formats | Provide current observations in two Internet based formats. Each format provides a channel for users to quickly access specific products. Products are organized by ASOS station ID. Two data exchange formats using Extensible Markup Language (XML) are provided for customers and partners who wish either display selected parts of the products or provide a display of the products to other customers.
The product homepage can be accessed at: http://weather.gov/data/current_obs/
| NWS_Current_Observations_RSS_XML.pdf |
| NWS Warnings Using Geographic Information Systems | NWS-issued short-fused warnings are added to a real-time database and Geographic Information System (GIS) shapefiles are generated from this database. In addition, an updated graphic is displayed that displays the current status of warnings. | pr_wwa.pdf |
| NWS web services via wireless technologies | NWS is responsible to make its weather, water and climate information widely availableto taxpayers using commonly accepted standards and technologies. One of the most widely accepted, available and cost effective means of accomplishing this objective is
the use of web services via the internet, and NWS has implemented a corporate-wide HTTP-based web service. This service has allowed users instant access to current NWS information via industry standard web browsers and internet connections. A rapidly evolving technology in the United States today is the ability to access internet content via wireless devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) and cell phones.
| sddnationalwirelessservice_official.pdf |
| Offshore Waters Forecast | An alphanumeric product routinely prepared for the Offshore Marine Zones in the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean Basins that provides forecasts of wind, waves, visibility, icing, and significant weather out to the five day forecast period.
| OWF.pdf |
| One-Month Climate Outlook (Contiguous U.S. and Alaska). | The Climate Prediction Center (CPC) issues a probabilistic one-month temperature and precipitation outlook. (Revised - Version 3) | 1MCO_v3.pdf |
| One-Month Outlook Discussion (Contiguous U.S. and Alaska). | A technical discussion of the meteorological and climatological basis for the one-month outlooks. (Revised - Version 3) | 1MOD_v3.pdf |
| Open Lakes Forecast | An alphanumeric product prepared by NWS Offices with Marine responsibility over the Great Lakes. This is a routinely issued product that describes forecast conditions and event-driven marine hazards expected over the five day forecast period. A coded fo | OLF.pdf |
| Operational Day 5 Tropical Cyclone Forecast | The approval of this PDD authorizes the public dissemination of an operational Day 5 tropical cyclone forecast. Two products will require modification if Day 5 forecasts are approved: | 5daytropical.pdf |
| Palmer Drought Severity Index. | The Climate Prediction Center?s (CPC) and U.S. Department of Agriculture?s Joint Agricultural Weather Facility (JAWF) produces the Palmer Drought Severity Index chart. The index indicates long term conditions. | PDSI_v2.pdf |
| 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. | PHX-pcpn.pdf |
| Post Tropical Cyclone Report (PSH) | The PSH is an alphanumeric product summarizing the meteorological parameters observed within a Weather Forecast Offices County Warning Area after a tropical cyclone event. | PostTropCycRep.pdf |
| Precipitation Frequency Data Server | NWS precipitation frequency estimates have traditionally been delivered in the form of Weather Bureau Technical Papers and Memoranda as well as NOAA Atlases, all hard copy documents. With the advent of the World Wide Web, these documents have been scanned and made available via web pages. The National Weather Service specifically developed the Precipitation Frequency Data Server as the primary web portal to precipitation frequency estimates and associated information (Parzybok and Yekta, 2003). Recent updates to NWS precipitation frequency are being delivered entirely in digital rather than hard copy form in order to make the estimates more widely available to the public and to provide the data in a broader and more accessible range of formats. | PFDS_PDD.pdf |
| 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. | ppi1.pdf |
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