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New techniques for climate and drought information delivery at the national climatic data center
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The USDP is the public face of the National Integrated Drought Information System. The NCS Portal represents a step toward integrating NOAA's climate services through a common interface. PRICIP is focused on providing information to communities vulnerable to storminess and the associated strong winds, heavy rains, and high seas throughout the Pacific. The three systems utilize a common back-end hardware and software infrastructure with custom tools for the provision and display of data and services which include:
• Web Mapping Viewer – provides visual display of physical elements through Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant services.
• Integrated Data Viewer – provides visual depictions of climate data time series leveraging existing Flash-based technology that can be tied to the Map Viewer.
• Access to communities where experts or parties interested in a particular topic can interact and share documents.