Hydro-NEXRAD

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Hydro-NEXRAD

• Kate Marney
• CE 394K.2
• Surface Water Hydrology

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NEXRAD Network

• Over 140 high resolution towers
• Operated by National Weather Service (NWS)
• Precipitation and atmospheric data

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The Problem

• Over 140 towers
• 130 terabytes of data
• 9 million files
• Complex radar data

Source NOAA website
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Hydro-NEXRAD

• Project Goal to provide the science community
  with easy access to the vast archives and
  real-time information collected by the national
  network of NEXRAD radars.
• Web-based interface
• Allows ordering of customized radar products
• No radar expertise required
• Physically meaningful metadata

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Exploring Hydro-NEXRAD
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ArcMap
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Result
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Thank you!
Questions?