Developing Web-Based Hydrologic Decision Support Services Paul McKee NOAA/National Weather Service West Gulf River Forecast Center Tracy Clark, Corey Pieper NWS Southern Region Greg Shelton NWS, detailed with NSC
Outline What is Decision Support? Defining the Need/Outlining Goals for Hydrologic Decision Support Services Development Process and Prototype for the 2011 Mississippi River Floods Tour of new site screenshots
What is Decision Support? A variety of services On-site support Virtual support Aimed at decision makers Providing interpretation of information
Where Can I Find Data? Current/Forecast River Info Past Precipitation Forecast Precipitation Current Radar Drought Conditions Tropical Activity Severe Weather Potential Water Supply
Goals of New Service Google Map-based tool for easy spatial navigation Consolidation of data sets into an easily accessible tool available from a web interface Ability to overlay multiple datasets Provision to stakeholders the flexibility to create customized maps Provision of a collaboration and decision making tool for stakeholders water resources, flood, and emergency management decisions Provision for download of data layers; access to data services Provision for collection of feedback to improve services Online survey Feedback email
Development Process Fall 2009 NWS Southern Region Forms a Team Investigate potential products/activities for use throughout the SR Hydrology Program March 2010 Team meeting in Fort Worth Concept of an RFC Decision Support Webpage. Mississippi Floods of 2011 Prototype map developed to meet needs of USACE and FEMA
Prototype map- 2011 Mississippi flood support
Development Process (cont) Fall 2011 SR Technology Infusion Branch staff expands development work Based on Mississippi Flood Map Development of a page with readily available RFC/Hydrologic data Compilation of existing regional/national data sets in one location Consolidation of multiple efforts SR works to elevate to national level project Winter/Spring 2012 Develop new front page for WGRFC WGRFC and SR collaborative effort Several iterations of development Summer 2012 Page goes live at WGRFC
Screen Captures www.weather.gov/wgrfc
Screen Captures www.weather.gov/wgrfc
Screen Captures www.weather.gov/wgrfc
Screen Captures www.weather.gov/wgrfc
Continued Development November 2012 Page goes live at ABRFC Early 2013 Page goes live at LMRFC, SERFC Completes Southern Region implementation Many new layers added (ie. gffg, qpf, etc) Experimental product replacing SR-RFC static products New Layers in Development Western water supply forecasts NRCS snotel network Access points: www.weather.gov/wgrfc../abrfc../lmrfc../serfc www.srh.noaa.gov/rfcexp (National Scale)
Data Services WMS Data provided by the Ridge 2 Open Source data stack MapServer, TileCache, and PostGIS Hosted at Southern Region HQ and the product of years of cross-regional (SR, CR, and WR) collaboration Data from various sources across the NWS Hundreds of GIS services provided from one location Utilized by several programs in the NWS, and also by some of the NWS s core partners (FEMA, NRC, Texas DEM, etc.)
National Viewer www.srh.noaa.gov/rfcexp
National Viewer www.srh.noaa.gov/rfcexp
Enhanced Data Display (EDD) Jonathan Wolfe NWS developer http://preview.weather.gov/edd
EDD Interface Highlights preview.weather.gov/edd Bring your own data Help Menu Map Storm Reports Quickly share this view with others (including all active layers)
Mobile EDD http://go.usa.gov/8dhk http://go.usa.gov/8dhk
Contacts Tracy Clark Hydrology Program Chief NWS Southern Region Headquarters tracy.clark@noaa.gov (817) 978-1100 x120 Paul McKee Senior Hydrologist NWS West Gulf River Forecast Center Paul.Mckee@noaa.gov (817) 831-3289 x206
EDD preview.weather.gov/edd
EDD Interactive Hydrographs preview.weather.gov/edd
EDD Screenshots preview.weather.gov/edd