Forecast Improvements
SRH Project 11 – An Investigation of Communicating Weather Information Effectively using the Internet
Funding Type: CIMMS Task II
Objectives
Investigate new applications to increase the capabilities of providing
new digital services to the public; investigate enhancements to the back-end
web applications, databases, and services that are the backbone of the
Southern Region Headquarters web presence, now used within the overall
Web Consolidation Project on three web farms; and study the usefulness
and cost-effectiveness of new technologies
Accomplishments
Work was done as part of the NWS Web Consolidation Project with back-end
application servers at Central Region Headquarters and NWS Headquarters
to mimic the success of the server operating so well at SRH. Work also
was done to set up Watch Warning Advisory (WWA) map making and Mobile
and Cell Phone pages on all three web farms. A new cities shape file
was created that now is used throughout the NWS to improve city labeling
on all WWA maps. Finally, polygon warning shape files were created each
minute for new polygon warning WWA maps that will go into operation October
1; this work combines county warnings with new polygon warnings.
This project is ongoing.