Abstract

Contextualizing Impacting Weather and Climate Information via GIS
Track: Atmosphere, Climate, and Weather
Authors: Jack Settelmaier

The National Weather Service (NWS) issues weather and climate forecast information to help citizens be weather-ready. NWS information made available in open-standards, easily-consumable, time-enabled GIS services can help place upcoming weather events in context so that folks can consider necessary actions to take to minimize life and property losses. One example, among many to be shown, is how weather events can be contextualized by framing these events with regard to climate normals.