The 15th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems(IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

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EXTENSIBLE WEB DISSEMINATION GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DATA

Christopher E. Steffen, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and M. B. Romberg

The AWIPS Local Data Acquisition and Dissemination (LDAD) system will disseminate cross-correlated, quality-controlled, weather, geographic, and alert information to local users. Local users range from the general public to more expert users in emergency management, law enforcement, fire suppression, forest management, flood plain management, road management, agriculture, and the tourist related industries. Since new information is constantly becoming available, it is desirable to have an incremental, continuously upgradable, capability. This allows new datasets to be easily integrated into the current application without requiring changes to the existing software. Often, users of National Weather Service (NWS) data would like to correlate phenomena encapsulated in nonweather, nonalert, related datasets with phenomena encapsulated in the NWS data. So, it is also desirable to display data from sources external to the NWS on the same image as the real-time NWS data. This paper describes how to integrate new data and data from sources external to the NWS with the real-time NWS data into the graphical user interface for the LDAD web dissemination system. It also explains how to display the data as an integrated image. This allows rapid real-time visual correlation between weather phenomena, alert phenomena, geographical location, and other nonweather related, nonalert related, phenomena

The 15th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems(IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology