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Lightning Products and Services at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center
Steve Ansari, Stephen Del Greco, Neal Lott (NOAA / NCDC)
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Introduction• Damage and Casualty Reports:
– NCDC Storm Events Database
• Archive of the Vaisala National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) data from 1986 to present (> 700 Million Strikes) - Joint project with USAF 14th Weather Squadron.
• Raw data from NCDC is available to only Government and Military users.
• NCDC is developing several derived products which are freely available for all users.
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Storm Events Database
• Verified reports from storm spotters, emergency management and more…
• 1959-present (currently 2000-present online)
• Damage and casualty information• Narratives• Pictures (coming soon)
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Storm Events Database
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Storm Events Database
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Strike Data
Vaisala’s National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN)
• 130 Sensors Nationwide, 1986 – Present
Images courtesy of NASA (http://thunder.msfc.nasa.gov/primer/primer3.html)
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County/State Summaries
• Number of cloud-to-ground lightning strikes are calculated for each day for all U.S. Counties and States.
• Part of the NCDC Severe Weather Data Inventory project.
• Currently available as CSV text reports. Web services in the future…
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County/State Summaries
• Travis County, TX
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Tile Summaries
• Daily strike counts in 0.10 Degree (~10 km) tiles.
• Part of the NCDC Severe Weather Data Inventory (SWDI) project.
• Accessible from SWDI RESTful (simple, URL-based) web services:– http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/swdiws/
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Gridded Summaries
• 4 km Albers Equal Area grid, fit to the Continental United States.
• Number of cloud-to-ground lightning strikes are calculated for each day, month, year and 1986-to-present period of record
• Summarized by hour over month, year and period of record.
• Grids for only positive polarity strikes.• Available in NetCDF format from FTP and
THREDDS
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Gridded Summaries
• Average annual strike count (1990-2012)
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Gridded Summaries
• THREDDS capabilities:– XML catalog for datasets and file metadata.– Aggregation capabilities to combine many
dates and variables into a single, large virtual file.
– Web Services provide access as OPeNDAP, WMS (Web Map Service) and NetCDF Subset Service
– NetCDF Subset Service provides simple, URL-based access to time series at specific grid cell.
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Gridded Summaries
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Gridded Summaries
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Gridded Summaries
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Gridded Summaries
• Many NetCDF tools exist.– IDL, MatLab, R, Ferret, NCL, GrADS, IDV,
ArcGIS, GRASS-GIS, Quantum-GIS and many more.
– Weather and Climate Toolkit
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Gridded Summaries
Weather and Climate Toolkit Example
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Gridded Summaries
Weather and Climate Toolkit Example
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Gridded Summaries
Weather and Climate Toolkit Example• Subset by time and space• Simple visualization• Export to common formats for GIS and
more…
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Future Work
• “By Hour” county and state summaries.• Web Services for county and state
summaries.• Improved CF-conventions for gridded
NetCDF files.• Online GIS Map Services and integration
into Climate.gov
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Conclusion• Damage and Casualty Reports:
– NCDC Storm Events Database
• Archive of the Vaisala National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) data from 1986 to present (> 700 Million Strikes) - Joint project with USAF 14th Weather Squadron.
• Raw data from NCDC is available to only Government and Military users.
• NCDC is developing several derived products which are freely available for all users.
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Conclusion
• Derived products are still PROTOTYPE!• Please help us guide, test and improve
these products!• Feedback Welcome!!!
Thank You!
Contact: [email protected]
Website: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/severe-weather/lightning-products-and-services