NCDC's Application of Climate Data to Tourism Business Decision-Making Climate, Weather, and Tourism Workshop November 14-15, 2008 East Carolina University Greenville, NC Neal Lott NOAA s National Climatic Data Center NOAA s National Climatic Data Center 1
How are our data used?...a few examples. Engineering design: Ice loads for towers, cables, wires, etc Wind loads for buildings, etc Heating/cooling requirements Drainage/runoff extremes (pipes, culverts) Aircraft operations: Crosswinds (runway design), instrument landing systems, etc Space shuttle accident investigation: Nexrad data Ship routing and oil rig placement Global re-analyses for climate trends assessment, etc HAZMAT operations and studies: oil spills, toxic release, etc Weather risk management industry (now > $40 billion per year) Insurance investigations and verification Court cases and criminal investigations Aircraft accident investigations Wind energy studies: Wind farms, US and overseas Commercial innovation and design: Typical and extreme conditions for a new market Tourism support NOAA s National Climatic Data Center 2
Data Access at NOAA s National Climatic Data Center (User Categories) Earth (In-Situ) Platform Education 4% Government 6% Satellite Platform Commercial 90% Commercial 25% Government 70% Education 5% NOAA s National Climatic Data Center 3
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Some of our Most Popular Services NOAA Virtual Data System (NVDS). Climate Data Online (CDO) Services, including. Quality Controlled Local Climatological Data, etc GIS Services Image and Publications System NEXRAD Radar Data Services NOAA s National Climatic Data Center 6
GIS-based Access to Data http://gis.ncdc.noaa.gov GIS Services GIS-based access and visualization of data Access to in-situ data, including NEXRAD Provides access to numerous datasets, products, and graphing OGC-compliant WMS, WFS Services implemented Access to Metadata Records in Geospatial One Stop and Global Change Master Directory NOAA Enterprise GIS Working Group (GEO-IDE) Google Earth compatibility Capability to overlay various GIS layers of interest to tourism NOAA s National Climatic Data Center
Climate Data Online (CDO) http://cdo.ncdc.noaa.gov Numerous datasets and products Data easily loaded into spreadsheets and other software For example compare business cash flow to weather data NOAA s National Climatic Data Center 8
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Local Climatological Data NOAA s National Climatic Data Center 1 2
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Climatological Normals/Averages http://cdo.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgibin/climatenormals/climatenormals.pl Long-term averages and summaries for over 7000 US locations E.g., assist in decision-making for new tourism-business locations NOAA s National Climatic Data Center 1 4
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Climatic Extremes Multiple parameters various extremes over long time periods E.g., determine typical extremes that may be expected in a city or county NOAA s National Climatic Data Center 1 6
Multivariate Summaries Multiple parameters various options and graphical displays E.g., determine frequencies of wind direction/speed for sporting events NOAA s National Climatic Data Center 1 7
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Serial Publications and Imaged Forms http://www7.ncdc.noaa.gov/ips NCDC s five serial publications, issued monthly Cooperative station forms, as early as 1800 s to present E.g., highlight historical locations original reports from the observer NOAA s National Climatic Data Center 1 9
Search and download radar data Visualize data using custom NEXRAD Viewer National Radar Images available (1995-present) Storm Events database (1950- present) Radar Resources NOAA s National Climatic Data Center 2 0
Satellite Resources Historical Significant Events Imagery visualize Satellite data multiple products NOAA s National Climatic Data Center 2 1
And Now for Further Interaction, Questions, etc NOAA s National Climatic Data Center 2 2