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The NWS Dissemination Office has spent the last 18 months migrating a majority of it’s Geographic Information System (GIS) portfolio to the public cloud. Included in these efforts were mirroring our Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant web services to the public cloud, following the NWS 10-102 directive for experimental to operational status for the NWS National GIS Map Viewer, “the Viewer.” and implementing in a secure hosting environment. The Viewer is an interactive tool for communicating data visually for decision support which NWS partnered with the National Ocean Service Office of Response and Restoration (NOS ORR) to leverage code developed for the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMAⓇ) and to collaborate on future enhancements to these cloud hosted applications. NWS also migrated Damage Assessment Toolkit from USGS AWS cloud to NOAA managed AWS cloud. Attendees of this session will see examples of the NWS suite of public cloud hosted GIS capabilities for communicating weather impacts and potential impacts with our partners as well as hearing lessons learned from creating a secure public facing cloud based GIS environment.
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"Each year, NOAA’s National Ocean Service provides a State of High Tide Flooding Outlook to inform the Nation of the potential for high tide flooding (HTF) expected at the coast. This annual assessment predicts when tides will breach the HTF threshold of 1.75 to 2 feet above the daily average high tide. As sea level rise continues, damaging floods that decades ago happened only during a storm, now happen more regularly, particularly during a full-moon tide and with a change in prevailing winds or currents. High tide flooding affects coastal infrastructure and natural systems alike, making the Outlook an invaluable decision support tool for mitigating the impacts of high tide flooding.
To make the science behind each projection more tangible and its data more accessible, the High Tide Flooding Outlook is being enhanced. What was once a static PDF will now be an interactive geospatial dashboard with regional map projections, coastal inundation thresholds, animated data visualizations through time, and a summary of key regional statistics. It’s further enhanced by integrating a new predictive algorithm from the 2022 interagency Sea Level Rise Technical Report. Each improvement creates more accurate projections; bringing us even closer to a detailed understanding of sea level rise, and in turn, better prepared for the impacts of climate change. "
