NDFD-Related Product Description Documents (PDDs) and Service Description Documents (SDDs)

NOTE: All experimental NDFD elements and services and some operational elements and services are described in PDDs.  All operational NDFD elements are described in NWS Policy documents. Links to appropriate policy documents will be added in the future.

Operational NDFD Products and Services

• NDFD in XML via web service
• Tropical Cyclone Surface Wind Speed Probabilities in NDFD

Experimental NDFD Products and Services

• Experimental Hazards Grids in the National Digital Forecast database
• Experimental Tropical Cyclone Surface Wind Speed Probabilities for the North Pacific Ocean in the National Digital Forecast Database
• NDFD Climate Probability Outlook Elements
• NDFD Experimental Web Feature Service, revised 11/23/07
• NDFD Gridded Data: and included elements and domains
• NDFD Graphic Forecast Displays: and included elements and domains
• Elements for Alaska: and included elements and domains
• NDFD Quantitative Precipitation Forecast for Hawaii
• User Defined NDFD GRIB2 Files
• NDFD Convective Outlook Hazard Probability Elements
  

NWS National Catalogue of New or Enhanced Products

• List of all NWS Experimental Products and Services (with links to the associated PDDs and SDDs)
• The NDFD-Related PDDs and SDDs are a subset of the entire list of experimental products and services

Elements (and applicable domains) described in both the NDFD Gridded Data and the NDFD Graphic Forecast Displays PDDs:

• Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts–for conterminous U.S. (CONUS) and Puerto Rico/Virgin Islands (PR/VI) only
• Sky Cover–for CONUS, PR/VI. Hawaii , and Guam
• Snow Amount–for CONUS and Hawaii only

NDFD Elements Available for Alaska (described in the NDFD Alaska Experimental Elements PDD):

• Maximum Temperature
• Minimum Temperature
• 12-hour Probability of Precipitation
• Wind Direction
• Wind Speed
• Significant Wave Height