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The Ingest, Quality Control, and Processing of Hydrometeorological Data at National Weather Service Field Offices
Mark J. Glaudemans, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. M. Roe and P. S. Tilles
The mission of the National Weather Service (NWS) includes providing hydrologic forecasts and warnings for the protection of life and property. An additional component of the NWS mission is to provide data for a national information database and infrastructure which can be used by other governmental agencies, the private sector, the public, and the global community. Both mission components are completely dependent on the timely and reliable availability of large volumes of hydrometeorological data, in a form usable by the many applications which process the data, and in a form which can be readily disseminated to external users of the data. As part of the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) operating within each of the NWS field offices, there exists a set of software components for ingesting and decoding the incoming data sets, for performing quality control on the data, for monitoring the data for indications of potentially hazardous conditions, and for processing and posting of the data in a relational database from which display and forecasting applications can use the data. While these systems emphasize the internal use of this data, applications are also provided which allow the distribution and dissemination of this data. In addition, the design of the database architecture and data processing infrastructure allows for the development of local applications to perform specialized tasks unique to the local offices. Together these systems meet the data needs of the NWS Weather Forecast Offices and the River Forecast Centers. This paper will describe the flow of hydrometeorological data in the NWS field office from its entry point into the local AWIPS systems, to the processing and storage of the data in the respective database(s), and to the exit point of data to external systems.
Joint Session 9, Data and Information Handling (Joint with AWIPS and IIPS)
Thursday, 17 January 2002, 8:30 AM-3:30 PM
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