Tools
Scientist repairs Climate Reference Network instruments
- Datzilla Datzilla is a Web-based system for NOAA employees to report and track errors against NOAA datasets and data products. The system allows NOAA employees to illustrate errors and suggest 'fixes' to data problems. Data managers at NCDC then resolve these errors and incorporate the corrected information into permanent data archives. (Non-NOAA employees can send an error report to ncdc.orders@noaa.gov)
- Weather and Climate Toolkit The Weather and Climate Toolkit application provides simple visualization and data export of the weather and climatological data archived at NCDC. The Toolkit can display custom data overlays, Web Map Services (WMS), animations, and basic filters and allows the user to export data in both vector point/line/polygon and raster grid formats.
- GIS-Based Map Interface (Climate Data Online) The GIS-Based Map Interface provides specialized dynamic mapping capabilities for datasets and products archived at NCDC. These capabilities include advanced searching, data access to various PDF and text output, accumulation maps, and historical mapping of observed and summarized data.
- NOMADS Ensemble Probability Tool The NOMADS Ensemble Probability Tool allows users to interrogate the high volume NCEP Global Ensemble (GENS) weather forecast model data without downloading the data. The tool allows the user to describe a set of conditions and determine the probability that that set of conditions will occur at a given location. By using this tool, users obtain 6-hourly Probability Distribution Functions (PDF) output by using multiple OPeNDAP calls to each of the 21-member NCEP Global Ensemble System (GENS) forecasts, which provides percentages of probability that a specific weather event may occur out to a forecast period to 16 days. The data are passed via OPeNDAP back to the application, where they are read using the Java NetCDF library, and then the probabilities are calculated.
