Climate Monitoring Tools High Plains Regional Climate Center

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Climate Monitoring Tools High Plains Regional
Climate Center

• Christy Carlson
• Regional Climatologist

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Applied Climate Information System

• Applied Climate Information System (ACIS)
• NOAA Regional Climate Centers (RCCs)
• A framework for management of metadata and
  climate data
• Ingest, Quality Control, and Archive
• Multiple Datasets
• Networked/Robust System
• Distributed Data Management
• Manages climate data (so you dont have to!)

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Applied Climate Information System

• ACIS provides a platform for suites of climate
  products
• CLIMOD (RCCs)
• xmACIS (NWS)
• NOWData (NWS)
• AgACIS (NRCS)
• For More Information, please see
  http//www.rcc-acis.org

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Current Climate Summary Maps

• Produced Daily at HPRCC
• Maps produced on a National, Regional and State
  Level
• Products produced include
• Precipitation (Total, Departure from Normal, of
  Normal, SPI)
• Temperature (Average, HDD, CDD, Departure from
  Normal)
• Over 2000 Maps produced each day
• http//hprcc.unl.edu/maps

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Gridded SPI Product

• Produced for the NDMC
• Updated Daily
• Available through Current Climate Summary Maps
  interface
• 30, 60, 90, 6-month, 12-month, From Jan 1
  (current year) and From October 1 (water year)
  updated daily.
• Last Month, Last 3 Months, and Last 12 months
  available (updated monthly)
• Uses Stations with at-least 30-years of data

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Station-Level Products

• Station Metadata
• Dynamic Visualizations using data from ACIS
• SPI Time-Series Product (in development)
• Soil Moisture products available for AWDN
  stations (10, 25, 50 and 100cm depths, root zone
  water)

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NDMC Drought Atlas

• Connections to ACIS for Current Climate Data
  (Online Atlas)
• Quality Control
• Dynamic Station-Level climate data and
  time-series graphics for online interface

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XML-RPC Connections to ACIS

• eXtensible Markup Language Remote Procedure
  Call
• Provides dynamic methods of retrieving climate
  data
• Any framework that has XML-RPC capabilities can
  make client calls to any RCC XML-RPC server
• Intended for dynamic online interfaces

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Future

• Expand Station-Level and Spatial product
  offerings
• Favorite stations lists
• Automated report generation (via email, ftp, etc)
• Customized XML-RPC connections to ACIS for other
  organizations
• Online GIS interface to Current Climate Summary
  Products
• Linking of station-level time-series information
  to spatial products
• Ability to save favorite views/products and
  quickly cover areas of interest
• Downloadable files in multiple formats for
  Products (GIS, CSV, PDF, JPG, PNG, etc)
• Improve Quality Control of Real-Time Data in ACIS

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Thank You

• HPRCC Website
• http//hprcc.unl.edu
• ACIS Information
• http//www.rcc-acis.org