From daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings and climate monitoring to fisheries management, coastal restoration and supporting marine commerce, NOAA’s products and services support economic vitality and affect more than one-third of America’s gross domestic product. NOAA’s dedicated scientists use cutting-edge research and high-tech instrumentation to provide citizens, planners, emergency managers and other decision makers with reliable information they need when they need it.
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GeoData & Products
Shoreline Website
Overview:
Website containing shoreline applications, mapping history, and downloadable data.
Unclassified URL: http://shoreline.noaa.gov/
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Emergency Response Imagery
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The imagery posted on this site was acquired by the NOAA Remote Sensing Division to support NOAA homeland security and emergency response requirements. In addition, it will be used for ongoing research efforts for testing and developing standards for airborne digital imagery.
Unclassified URL: https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/
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NOAA Hurricane Resources
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A group featuring publicly available data from NOAA in support of Hurricane Dorian. Examples include in-situ observations, forecasts, tracks, historical data, weather radar imagery, warnings, and precipitation forecasts.
Unclassified URL: https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/home/group.html?id=3c8cec34f6f740e8bc48dd15dcedb2af#overview
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Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts
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The QPF desk prepares and issues forecasts of accumulating (quantitative) precipitation, heavy rain, heavy snow, and highlights areas with the potential for flash flooding. The basic QPF products are primarily directed to the NWS forecast offices and are available on the Internet for public use. The heavy snow forecast products, in association with the short-range public forecast products (described below), serve as a coordinating mechanism for the NWS winter storm watch and warning program. Through a continuous watch for excessive rainfall, heavy snow, and winter storms, this desk ensures that the highest quality forecast products are constantly available.
Unclassified URL: https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/qpf2.shtml
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National Hurricane Center (NHC) GIS Data
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Downloadable National Hurricane Center data in GIS formats from NOAA.
Unclassified URL: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gis/
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National Ocean Service (NOS) Data Explorer
Overview:
The National Ocean Service provides a comprehensive geospatial metadata inventory for the public to search and find NOS geospatial data resources. Since 2007, this NOS metadata inventory was made available via the NOS Data Explorer geoportal website.
Unclassified URL: http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/dataexplorer/
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National Weather Service GIS Data Portal
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Many of the National Weather Service data sets are available in formats that are able to be imported directly into Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Data formats include downloadable shapefiles, web services, KML files and geo referenced images. As more data is made available in these formats, links to the data will be added to these pages.
Unclassified URL: https://www.weather.gov/gis/
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Tsunami Observations and Data
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Mapping and data for information related to tsunamis from NOAA.
Unclassified URL: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/tsu.shtml
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Historical Hurricane Tracks
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NOAA's National Hurricane Center web mapping site to search for historical hurricane tracks.
Unclassified URL: https://coast.noaa.gov/hurricanes/
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Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS)
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National Geodetic Survey (NGS) manages a network of Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) that provide Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data.
Unclassified URL: http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/CORS/
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Tradecraft
National Weather Service Tutorial for using NDFD data in GIS
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An NWS tutorial for using NDFD gridded data in a GIS environment (shapefiles and floating point grids).
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Link: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ndfd/gis/ndfd_GIS_tutorial.html
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
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Part of the tsunami warning system program through NOAA, and serves as the operational center for TWS of the Pacific issuing bulletins and warnings to participating members and other nations.
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Link: http://ptwc.weather.gov/ptwc/index.php
Capabilities
Hurricane Resources
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A group featuring publicly available web maps and applications from NOAA in support of Hurricane Dorian. Application examples include surge hazard maps, tracks tool, and NOAA emergency response imagery.
Unclassified URL: https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/home/group.html?id=3c8cec34f6f740e8bc48dd15dcedb2af#overview
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AirNow – Current Air Quality Index
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Every day the Air Quality Index (AQI) tells you how clean or polluted your outdoor air is, along with associated health effects that may be of concern. The AQI translates air quality data into numbers and colors that help people understand when to take action to protect their health.
This data sharing and centralization creates a one-stop source for real-time and forecast air quality data. The benefits include quality control, national reporting consistency, access to automated mapping methods, and data distribution to the public and other data systems.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Park Service, tribal, state, and local agencies developed the AirNow system to provide the public with easy access to national air quality information. State and local agencies report the air quality index (AQI) for cities across the US and parts of Canada and Mexico.
Unclassified URL: https://www.airnow.gov
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National Water Model
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A modeling tool using a supercomputer and data from more than 8,000 U.S. Geological Survey gauges to simulate conditions for 2.7 million locations in the contiguous United States.
Unclassified URL: http://water.noaa.gov/about/nwm
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HURREVAC – S
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HURREVAC is the decision support tool of the National Hurricane Program, administered by FEMA, the USACE, and the NOAA National Hurricane Center. It provides estimates on evacuation decisions using modeled hurricane track information from NOAA/NWS and data from the HURREVAC study for the area. In addition, storm surge inundation graphics, where available, are also displayed, using data from the NWS Sea, Lake, and Overland Surges from Hurricanes (SLOSH) model.
Unclassified URL: http://www.hurrevac.com/
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Digital Coast
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This NOAA-sponsored website is focused on helping communities address coastal issues and has become one of the most-used resources in the coastal management community. The dynamic Digital Coast Partnership, whose members represent the website’s primary user groups, keeps the effort focused on customer needs. Provides data, imagery, and tools to assist users.
Unclassified URL: https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/
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General NOAA Operational Modeling Environment (GNOME)
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General NOAA Operational Modeling Environment (GNOME) is the modeling tool the Office of Response and Restoration's (OR&R) Emergency Response Division uses to predict the possible route, or trajectory, a pollutant might follow in or on a body of water, such as in an oil spill.
Unclassified URL: http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/oil-and-chemical-spills/oil-spills/response-tools/gnome.html
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NOAA/NOS nowCOAST™
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NOAA/NOS nowCOAST™ is a GIS-based web mapping portal displaying near real-time observations, analyses, tide predictions, model guidance, watches/warnings, and forecasts for the coastal United States. Links to GIS Data Services on the top right of the page.
nowCOAST™ provides situational awareness on present and future environmental conditions for coastal and marine users by integrating data and information from across NOAA, other federal agencies and regional ocean and weather observing systems.
Unclassified URL: https://nowcoast.noaa.gov/
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Updated on October 29, 2019