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The NOAA Weather and Climate Toolkit
Steve Ansari, Stephen Del Greco, Neal Lott (NOAA / NCDC)
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Overview
• Free, public domain source code• Desktop and command-line application• Simple visualization and data export• Platform independent (Java-based)• Leverages community tools and standards
(NetCDF for Java, Common Data Model, etc…)
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Data• Raw data files on disk or remote location
(URL, THREDDS, OPeNDAP, etc…)
• NetCDF, GRIB, GINI, HDF and more via Unidata Common Data Model (CDM):– Feature types of Grid, Swath, Radial (Time
Series, Point, coming soon)
• Supports:– NEXRAD, GOES, Model Data, and much
more.
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Visualization
• Simple 2-D maps
• Basic overlays included (states, counties, etc…)
• Background images from any OGC WMS– Shaded Relief, Topo Maps, Landsat, ext…
• Save images and animations to Animated GIF, AVI, KMZ (Google Earth)
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Visualization
GOES Infrared Water Vapor with Blue Marble Web Map Service (WMS) background map
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Visualization
Smoothed NEXRAD Reflectivity Data
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Visualization
U.S. Drought Monitor service from NIDIS/NDMC (National Drought Mitigation Center)
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Visualization
Sea Surface Temperature (NetCDF data over OPeNDAP)
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Visualization
• Internal Google Earth Instance:(Currently Windows Only)
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Visualization
Hurricane Andrew: NCDC GridSat Climate Data Record (CDR).
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Visualization
• Math tool (max, min, avg, abs max, sum)(Under ‘More…’ link on ‘Data Selector’ or ‘Grid Properties’)
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Visualization
• Experimental Time Morphing (Under ‘Tools’ menu)
– Interpolation of data between time steps based on storm motion.
– Based on Face Morphing algorithms (javamorph)
– Storm motion data from NEXRAD Level-III products, RUC model or manual entry.
– Many possible future applications.
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Visualization
• Experimental Time Morphing (Under ‘Tools’ menu)
Example Movies:Moore, OK 1999: orig. /
morph
Fairview, AL 2011: orig. / morph
Surry, VA 2011: orig. / morph
Western NC 2012: orig. / morph
Pierce City, MO 2003:
orig. / morph
GOES Satellite IR: orig. / morph
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Community-focused Plugins• IMPACT: Integrated Marine Protected Area
Climate Toolkit – specialized user interface prototype built on top of WCT.
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Data Export• “Bridge” between raw Weather and
Climate data and multiple scientific user communities
• Export Data to:Shapefile, Well-Known Text, Arc/Info ASCII
GRID, Gridded and Raw NetCDF, GeoTIFF and KMZ (Google Earth)
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Applications
GOES Satellite Imagery from Hurricane Rita landfall, exported as ASCII GRID, in ArcGIS
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Applications
GOES Satellite Imagery from Hurricane Rita landfall in Google Earth
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Applications
• 3D Radar Sweeps in Google Earth:– Drapes rendered image on COLLADA model
(Similar to 3D building models)
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Applications• 3D Isosurfaces in Google Earth:
– Output of 3D Polygons to KMZ• Supported for Generic Radial, Level-II NEXRAD and Gridded
x, y, z datasets.
Play Movie
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Applications
Command-line batch processing of data export
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Applications
Public domain / open source API
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Future Work
• Improved Point and Time Series (station data) support.
• Comparison between station data and grid/radial data.
• More COLLADA work? Cross-sections?• Enhance Time Morphing features.• Batch / Command-line KMZ export.• Enhanced integration with the Climate Services
portal (http://www.climate.gov).
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Contact
Thank you! Questions?
WCT Website: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/wct
Contact:[email protected]
(828) 271-4611
151 Patton Ave.
Asheville, NC 28801
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