Societal Benefits of Visualization Tools and Data Access Methodologies of Varying Temporally Averaged Meteorological Data from a Mesoscale Network

Historically, climatological data utilized in the analysis of signal trends, changes, and anomalies spanned 30 years of data and are spatially limited in some regions. However, with rapidly change land uses, smaller temporal and spatial scales are of a greater importance to those who rely on the data to make critical decisions. A data set was created from 25 years of data from the Oklahoma Mesonet, a statewide, mesoscale network of 120 atmospheric monitoring stations, which allowed analysis at smaller spatial and temporal scales. Examples of the utilization of such datasets and its varying time averaging intervals are shown from various stakeholders including agriculture, fire weather, hydrology, public health, and general public use as well as visualization tools and data access methodologies.