Armstrong, Lori.

Mapping and Modeling Weather and Climate with GIS. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (336 pages)

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword: A fruitful collaboration between geospatial and atmospheric communities -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1 Representations of atmospheric phenomena -- Chapter 1 Multidimensional data in ArcGIS -- Chapter 2 Meteorological data in a geodatabase -- Chapter 3 The shape of the earth: Spatial referencing in weather and climate models -- Part 2 Observations -- Chapter 4 Weather radar: Urban application -- Chapter 5 Atmospheric satellite observations and GIS -- Chapter 6 Climatological products -- Chapter 7 Social media -- Part 3 Models -- Chapter 8 Exploring future climates in a GIS -- Chapter 9 Downscaling of climate models -- Chapter 10 Climate applications at the NOAA Climate Prediction Center -- Chapter 11 Particle tracking in ocean and atmospheric studies -- Part 4 Integrated analyses of models and observations -- Chapter 12 Joplin tornado damage analysis -- Chapter 13 Integrating weather, climate, and demographic data -- Chapter 14 Integrating remote sensing observations and model results for weather studies -- Chapter 15 Lightning applications -- Part 5 Web services -- Chapter 16 Weather-based web map services -- Chapter 17 Interoperability interfaces -- Chapter 18 METOC web services -- Part 6 Tools and resources -- Chapter 19 NetCDF and related information sources -- Chapter 20 NetCDF tools -- Chapter 21 Space-time visualization -- Chapter 22 Python scripting -- Chapter 23 The Weather and Climate Toolkit -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index.

Latest research by more than three dozen atmospheric science experts on GIS and weather and climate studies.

9781589484054


Climatology -- Data processing.
Meteorology -- Data processing.
Geographic information systems.


Electronic books.

QC874.3 -- .M377 2015eb

551.60151