Abstract

Gridded Weather Forecasts from the Los Angeles/Oxnard National Weather Service
Track: Climate, Weather, and Atmosphere
Author(s): Jayme Laber

The NOAA/National Weather Service (NWS) Los Angeles/Oxnard weather forecast office, in an effort to meet the growing customer and partner demand for weather forecast products in a GIS compatible format, is providing gridded weather forecast information to customers as GIS shapefiles. The National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) is designed to provide access to weather forecasts in digital form. Command line scripts have been implemented that run the DeGRIB software to access local digital forecast datasets and then convert them into GIS compatible shapefiles. These shapefiles are then made available on a local Web page. Currently, maximum and minimum temperature, wind speed and direction, and relative humidity forecasts are being made available via this web page. Local customers can access these shapefiles for use within their own GIS systems. Example GIS applications and uses of the NDFD datasets by several local Southern California agencies will be presented and summarized.

Jayme Laber
National Weather Service
520 N. Elevar St.
Oxnard , California 93030
United States
Phone: 805-988-6621
Fax: 805-988-6613
E-mail: Jayme.Laber@noaa.gov