24-Hour Forecast of Precipitation Amounts from the National Weather Service's National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD)

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Resource Abstract:
The National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) contains a seamless mosaic of the National Weather Service's (NWS) digital forecasts of precipitation amounts. In collaboration with NWS National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and NWS Weather Forecast Offices (WFO), the central NDFD server ingests 5-km, 2-dimensional grids of precipitation amounts, and creates experimental forecast data mosaics for the coterminous United States (CONUS), Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam.
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Title 24-Hour Forecast of Precipitation Amounts from the National Weather Service's National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD)
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organisation Name  DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Topic Category:  climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
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Theme keywords (theme):
precipitation
weather
forecasts
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United States
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purpose:
NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) accesses this database once daily to get the 24hr forecast for precipitation amounts. This information is being made available in the near realtime application of the Harmful Algal Blooms Observing System as an environmental data layer that may affect the spread of these blooms.
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thumbnail file description:  Amount of precipitation forecast for United States
Resource language:  eng; USA
Resource progress code:  completed
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  daily
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Access Constraints: None Use Constraints: The information available from this forecast model is experimental in nature and should be used with caution. Distribution Liability: NOAA makes no warranty regarding these data, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty. NOAA, NESDIS, NCEI cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in these data, nor as a result of the failure of these data to function on a particular system.
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westBoundLongitude  -130.142456
eastBoundLongitude  -60.84663
northBoundLatitude  52.827621
southBoundLatitude  20.165239
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ground condition
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National Weather Service
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organisation Name  DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 866-732-2382
Fax 228-688-2968
Address
Building 1021, Suite 1003, Stennis Space Center, MS, 39529 Country USA
electronic Mail Address ncei.info@noaa.gov
hoursOfService Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm, Central Standard Time
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description The National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) ftp server is accessed once daily by the National Coastal Data Development Center. Precipitation forecasts for the United States are downloaded from this server. Data from the NDFD are provided in GRIB, Edition 2 (WMO 2001) format. The National Weather Service provides decoding software that will convert data into ESRI shapefile format. This decoding program is run at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). This software has been slightly modified by the National Coastal Data Development Center in order to capture the date of the forecast as a field within the generated shapefile. The resulting shapefiles are loaded as ArcSDE layers and stored at NCEI.
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organisation Name  DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
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Contact information
Telephone
Voice 866-732-2382
Fax 228-688-2968
Address
Building 1021, Suite 1003, Stennis Space Center, MS, 39529 Country USA
electronic Mail Address ncei.info@noaa.gov
hoursOfService Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm, Central Standard Time
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source description  Source Contribution: Responsible for maintaining the database with most current informationonline
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Title National Digital Forecast Database
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organisation Name  National Weather Service
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ground condition
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evaluation Method Description  Complete
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distributor contact - distributor
organisation Name  DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 866-732-2382
Fax 228-688-2968
Address
Building 1021, Suite 1003, Stennis Space Center, MS, 39529 Country USA
electronic Mail Address ncei.info@noaa.gov
hoursOfService Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm, Central Standard Time
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://www.ncddc.noaa.gov/interactive-maps/environmental-monitoring/habsos/
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://service.ncddc.noaa.gov/website/AGSViewers/HABSOS/maps.htm

Metadata data stamp:  2016-07-14
Resource Maintenance Information
date of next update:  2015-09-08
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notes: This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadatastandard version FGDC-STD-001-1998 using the January 2013 version of the FGDC CSDGM to ISO 19115-2 transform.
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organisation Name  DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 866-732-2382
Fax 228-688-2968
Address
Building 1021, Suite 1003, Stennis Space Center, MS, 39529 Country USA
electronic Mail Address ncei.info@noaa.gov
hoursOfService Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm, Central Standard Time
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Metadata language  eng; USA
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Metadata standard for this record:  ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data
standard version:  ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
Metadata record identifier:  gov.noaa.ncei.NWS_PrecipitationAmts_24hr

Metadata record format is ISO19139-2 XML (MI_Metadata)