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Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
1315 East-West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910
301-713-2458
NOAA Strategic Goal: Climate Variability and Change
Climate Observations and Services ProgramClimate Reference Network
KS-2 (Manhattan)
NOAA is installing the U. S. Climate Reference Network across the country, to measure weather and climate. About 110 stations are envisioned for the network and more than 80 stations are presently operating in 40 states, including Kansas. The network is intended to operate for many decades, providing highly accurate and well-documented measurements of key variables such as air temperature and precipitation. Data is used operationally to put climate anomalies into historical perspective and to detect climate change. The effort is supported by the NOAA Research Climate Observation and Services Program and the Air Resources Laboratory, which designed the stations and has been assembling, calibrating, deploying, and maintaining the network sites in collaboration with NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite and Data Information Service. A list of the operational sites and links to their data are available at this URL: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/crn/hourly.
General website: www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/uscrnEarth System Research Laboratory
Experimental Weather Outlook for Southwestern Kansas
KS-1 (Dodge City)
NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory is working with the National Weather Service office in Dodge City, Kansas, to link weather and climate phenomena and to anticipate errors in 7-14 day predictions in various forecast models.
General website: http://www.cdc.noaa.govNOAA Strategic Goal: Weather and Air Quality
Earth System Research LaboratoryOperational Systems for Weather Forecasting
KS-1, 1, 2, 4 (Dodge City, Goodland, Topeka, Wichita)
Computer systems developed by the NOAA Research Forecast Systems Laboratory (ESRL) are in operation at all NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) field offices, three of which are located in Kansas. ESRL has been the prime developer of the data ingest and display components of the NWS weather display and text generation system known as AWIPS (Advanced Weather Information Processing System). This system integrates meteorological, hydrological, satellite, and radar data. ESRL also developed the Interactive Forecast Preparation System Graphical Forecast Editor, a system that allows forecasters to display and manipulate forecast depictions of sensible weather (temperature, wind, precipitation, etc.), and use these to generate text and graphical forecasts for the public and other customers. NWS field offices are using this system to produce gridded forecast products, which allows forecasters to convey more information to the customers than they did in the past.
General website: http://onestop.noaa3.awips.noaa.gov/onestop/what_is_awips.htmGeneral website: http://www-md.fsl.noaa.gov/eft/
Earth System Research Laboratory
NOAA Profiler Network
KS-1,2 (Haviland, Hillsboro, Neodesha)
The NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) consists of 35 unmanned Doppler Radar sites located in 18 U.S. states. Three NPN sites are in Kansas. The NPN provides critical upper-air wind and temperature data to the National Weather Service, other NOAA entities, the military, universities, researchers and forecasters in the private sector. The NPN has been fully operational since 1992. Data from the NPN are directly associated with improved weather forecasting, which saves lives and helps protect property. The NPN is particularly important in forecasting tornadoes and NPN data is also used to route aircraft for increased safety and fuel economy. The NPN's continuous wind measurements are used by the U.S. Departments of Defense, Energy, and Homeland Security. For more information, please visit www.profiler.noaa.gov
General website: www.profiler.noaa.gov
