Jack,
1) The Big Data archive viewer reads GeoTIFFs for NBM and GRIBv2
for NDFD.
2) No. Dave Miller plans to email you what he knows about
accessing NBM and NDFD Big Data via ArcGIS Pro.
3) We are in the process of adding RTMA and a grid difference
function to the Big Data archive viewer. To my knowledge, URMA
and WPC are not available via Big Data. We have no plan to
arrange the maps into multiple panels.
4) The WMS is on the back-end. We will be able to provide a
public-facing WMS from digital after we install a new MapCache version.
5) Graphical.mdl.nws.noaa.gov is public-facing. Users can
link to images on the new graphical just like they could from
graphical.weather.gov on NIDS.
For example, https://graphical.weather.gov/supplementalpages/view_image.php?image=../images/conus/MaxT1_conus.png
is now https://graphical.mdl.nws.noaa.gov/supplementalpages/view_image.php?sector=CONUS&element=maxt&n=1
I should also note that the new
graphical has a nifty download image function that enables you to
create small, medium, or large images via the WMS.
DR
On 4/5/2022 3:52 PM, Jack Settelmaier wrote:
Dave,
This "additional aspects" email of your WSUP v4.5
upgrade does not seem to be a Forum post from which
I can respond and ask questions, so I'm making one
with this email to ask a few questions.
It's awesome to see the NBM/NDFD Archive Viewer,
feeding off NODD AWS data endpoints, in place and usable!!
1) Does the code read the GRIB on the fly to create,
or are the geoTIFFS being used? I assume the latter, but
the ability to see the S3 link had me wondering.
1a) I like that the S3 link "decodes" the
user's request and shows which WMO-encoded GRIB
files were the base data.
2) When one hits submit, is there a URL used that can
be used, and modified, directly to grab a series of images?
3) Given this implementation, one of our SR SOOs
asked if we might see the return of the 4-panel viewer to
easily compare NBM, NDFD, RTMA/URMA, WPC, etc.
4) Is the WMS step only used "in the server
back-end" to return an image to the
webpage, or is there a public-facing WMS link
that one can point to/alter, for potential use
in other interfaces that can consume WMS?
Yesterday,
MDL pushed version 4.5 of our
Whole
Story Uncertainty &
Probabilities (WSUP) Viewer
to VLab production. The WSUP
prototype is being developed to investigate
the feasibility of using the public cloud to
visually convey whole story uncertainty and
probabilistic forecast information to NWS forecast
offices nationwide that is currently only available
on supercomputers at the National Centers for
Environmental Prediction (NCEP).
This
WSUP version provides improved
drawing of layers on the map
with more options, including the much requested
ability to add custom sample points to the map display.
As
you know, WSUP keeps only a
couple weeks of NBM and NDFD grids
online. To look at maps of older NBM and NDFD
grids, we have now implemented an NBM/NDFD
Archive Viewer. These grids are pulled from
the "Big Data" archive on AWS, which extends
back to April 2020.
I
would also like to draw your
attention to a new cloud option for
low bandwidth users of NDFD. This new site, graphical.mdl.nws.noaa.gov
(modeled after graphical.weather.gov),
provides simple map graphics by making WMS calls
to digital.mdl.nws.noaa.gov
on-the-fly. Users can get simple graphics for all
NDFD elements, not just those that were available
prior to the implementation of digital.weather.gov.
The bandwidth required for NDFD's digital website
to work properly has been a recurring complaint
from low end users for many years. A simple
mouseover menu (ala graphical.weather.gov)
is also preferred by some. The availability of
this new site on AWS should make it easier for the
NWS to retire the legacy NIDS sites.
Please
use our
VLab community
to communicate bugs, suggestions, or
general discussion. As always, the latest WSUP
Viewer release notes can be found under
announcements in the VLab WSUP forum.
DR
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