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Leveraging the Internet to Aid Decision Making During Hazardous Weather Events
Kevin A. Kloesel, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and K. C. Crawford, R. McPherson, D. Morris, R. Jesuroga, and C. Subramaniam
Observations Necessary for Aiding Local Emergency Response via Telecommunications (ONALERT) is a multi-agency effort bringing together the expertise of the National Weather Service (NWS), the Oklahoma Climatological Survey (OCS) and NOAA’s Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL) in the areas of analysis, forecast and warning generation, and adaptation of critical forecast information for efficient and appropriate use by emergency management personnel. ONALERT is being developed with the goal of serving as an experimental national prototype for the dissemination of pertinent weather data via the internet to emergency managers, and for the training of emergency managers on how to apply the data correctly in their decision-making processes. The lessons learned during the training and operational phases of highly successful OK-FIRST project will be applied to better synthesize the local products developed by OCS and the text and graphical forecast products developed by both OCS and FSL. These products are formatted for delivery via the NWS Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) Local Data Acquisition and Dissemination (LDAD) system. Taking full advantage of the NWS modernization efforts, local analysis and forecast data sets will be quality controlled and delivered to public safety officials and local and state government agencies in a ready-to-apply format for emergency management operations. This presentation will report on the initial field implementation of the ONALERT decision support system.
Session 12, Applications of decision support tools in the use and leverage of the Internet (Parallel with Sessions 11 and 13)
Thursday, 13 January 2000, 8:30 AM-12:15 PM
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