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WxPortal
Features
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| Imagine
having nearly half a million new weather maps at your fingertips
every day! With WxPortal and your web
browser, you create personalized combinations of weather and
map layers. Each scenario can be saved for rapid display with
the latest weather data. |
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| Product
Features |
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WxPortal
provides detailed information needed to help your business
minimize the risks posed by weather and climate. A significant
portion of the economy is weather sensitive and by overlaying
and graphically animating multiple data sources, WindLogics
technology can enable your business to make timely, accurate
and informed operational and financial decisions.
WxPortal
unifies all your weather information in space and time to
help you make better, faster decisions. With WxPortal you
can control your personalized weather displays, updated
in real-time on the Internet.
WindLogics' new WxPortal Internet service delivers powerful
Ensemble Decision Tools to meteorologists and weather-sensitive
businesses such as Utilities, Aviation, Agriculture, Commodity
Trading and Transportation industries. WxPortal automatically
generates insightful derivative information from huge volumes
of weather data so you can easily visualize and track it
on your desktop.
While existing sources of weather data can provide bits
and pieces of valuable information, they don’t solve the
real problem – the need to rapidly integrate many sources
of data to make better and faster business decisions. With
WxPortal you save time and money by receiving customized,
graphically-detailed, animated images, real-time weather
forecasts and trend analysis directly on your desktop.
Features
- Innovative
interface allows visualization and exploration of up to
eight simultaneous layers of weather data.
- Includes
17 regional zones with nearly 500,000 new map images added
daily.
- Combine
and overlay weather maps, satellite images and real-time
information on one web page in a common map projection.
- Option
to add custom derived variables from existing model variables.
- Option
to integrate your proprietary overlays (facility maps,
pipelines, transmission lines) into your displays.
Benefits
- Provides
a true, interactive weather decision-support platform.
- Creates
derivative data from multiple sources of input, allowing
you to develop your own custom weather analysis appropriate
to your business.
- No
expensive satellite stations or computer hardware needed
– runs on computers you already own.
- Nothing
extra to install, upgrade or maintain – works with a standard
web browser.
- Saves
you countless hours by integrating all your weather variables
into a single web interface.
- Cost
effective for your entire enterprise.
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| WxPortal
Data Specifications |
| WxPortal
is delivered as a subscription service over the Internet.
The WxPortal subscription provides an unparalleled amount
of weather content using the industry’s most innovative and
convenient interface. In addition to the variables listed
below, users can add premium services such as “derived variables”
computed from raw data (for example – an overlay showing the
difference between actual high temperatures and normal high
temperatures). Other premium options include custom WxPortal
overlays like facility maps and high-resolution mesoscale
forecast models. |
| Forecast
Models and Data Sources: |
- RUC
– Rapid Update Cycle runs every 3 hours providing
short-term (up to 12 hour) mesoscale forecasts.
- ETA
– The ETA model runs four times a day, providing
forecasts up to 60 hours into the future.
- AVN
– The AVN model runs four times a day, providing
forecasts up to 108 hours into the future.
- MRFMOS
– The MRF Model Output Statistics model runs once
a day generating 8-day forecasts.
- MRF
– The Medium Range Forecast model runs once a day
and provides a forecast 16 days into the future.
- Satellite
– Satellite images include Visible, Infrared, Color
Enhanced Infrared, and Vapor.
- RADAR
– Regional composites from NEXRAD single-site radar
stations.
- Normal
– Normal high and low temperatures based on 30 years
of NWS records.
- Actual
– Actual recorded high and low temperatures for
a particular day and place.
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| Weather
Variables* (partial list): |
- Best
(4 Layer) Lifted Index
- Lifted
Index
- Convective
Accumulated Precipitation
- Total
Accumulated Precipitation
- Large
Scale Accumulated Precipitation (Non-Convective)
- Convective
Available Potential Energy
- Precipitable
Water
- Thunderstorm
Probability
- Temperature
- Forecast
Low Temperature
- Forecast
High Temperature
- Temperature
At 2 Meters Above Ground
- Dew
Point Temperature
- Freezing
Line
- Pressure
Reduced To Mean Sea Level
- Relative
Humidity
- Relative
Humidity At 2 Meters Above Ground
- Wind
Speed
- Wind
Speed And Direction At 10 Meters Above Ground
- Absolute
Vorticity
- Geopotential
Height
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Atmospheric
Pressure Levels: |
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100 mb
- 300
mb
- 500
mb
- 700
mb
- 850
mb
- Surface
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METARS: |
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Hourly
weather station reports including -
- Station
Model
- Wind
speed and direction
- Wind
speed
- Visibility
in Nautical Miles
- Temperature
- Barometric
Pressure
- Pressure
reduced to Mean Sea Level
- Name
code for METAR station
- Wind
gust speed
- Dew
point temperature
- Fractional
cloud cover
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| *Note:
Not all variables are available for all forecast models or
zones. Specifications subject to change without notice. Copyright
2002, WindLogics, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
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