North Dakota GIS Conference 2007: Presentations

Operational, Research, and External/Internal Customer Utilization of National Weather Service GIS Data

Presented by: Nathan Heinert, Meteorologist, National Weather Service

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Numerous weather-related GIS datasets are created daily at National Weather Service offices and other state and federal agencies around the country. Datasets include, but are not limited to, past and present surface and upper atmospheric information, river observations, winter and summer severe weather reports such as snowfall and rainfall amounts, maximum hail size, and tornado path and aerial damage assessments, Doppler radar imagery, and forecaster generated NDFD (National Digital Forecast Database) gridded data.

The National Weather Service office in Bismarck incorporates these datasets for research, daily meteorology and hydrology operational tasks, and climatological assessment. External usage of these GIS datasets is unlimited, from overlaying radar imagery in various mapping programs such as Google Earth, to geospatial analysis of the NDFD gridded data.

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