Assessing and Improving the NWS Point-and-Click Webpage Forecast Information

Demuth, Julie L.; Lazo, Jeffrey K.; Morss, Rebecca E.

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Assessing and Improving the NWS Point-and-Click Webpage Forecast Information

2012
By Demuth, Julie L. ; Lazo, Jeffrey K. ; Morss, Rebecca E.

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Demuth, Julie L. ; Lazo, Jeffrey K. ; Morss, Rebecca E.
Corporate Authors:

United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research ; Climate Program Office ; United States. National Weather Service. ; Research Applications Laboratory ; Weather Systems and Assessment Program ; National Center for Atmospheric Research
NOAA Program & Office:

NWS (National Weather Service) ; OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; CPO (Climate Program Office)
Description:

The National Weather Service (NWS) is the governmental agency responsible for providing freely available weather forecasts, warnings, watches, and advisories for the protection of life and property. A primary channel through which NWS directly disseminates everyday and hazardous weather forecast products is its website, www.weather.gov. Among the more heavily accessed NWS webpages is the point-and-click (PnC) forecast webpage (Figure ES-1 is an example PnC forecast webpage). The PnC webpage has everyday and hazardous weather forecast information in graphical and textual formats for every 2.5 × 2.5 km grid over land in the United States. The PnC webpage contains forecast-at-a-glance information out to 4.5 days (commonly known for its forecast icons), a more detailed 7-day text forecast, links to hazardous weather forecast products (e.g., severe thunderstorm warning), current conditions, and links to other forecast and observation products.
Keywords:

Forecasting Website Design Website Design
Document Type:

Miscellaneous
Funding:

Grant no. NA06NWS4670013 ; Grant no. NA06OAR4310119
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Public Domain
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