From guest@tornado Tue May 28 15:50:53 1996 Received: from tornado.meteor.wisc.edu by sunset.meteor.wisc.edu via ESMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1042/940406.SGI.AUTO) for id PAA20042; Tue, 28 May 1996 15:50:52 -0500 Received: from tornado by tornado.meteor.wisc.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/940406.SGI.AUTO) for id PAA22216; Tue, 28 May 1996 15:57:11 -0500 Message-Id: <199605282057.PAA22216@tornado.meteor.wisc.edu> Date: Tue, 28 May 96 15:57:11 -0500 Sender: guest@tornado From: Guest Account X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP17) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hopkins Subject: EMWIN Datastream X-URL: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oso/oso1/oso12/document/windat.htm Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="-------------------------------302742180116157" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------------------302742180116157 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oso/oso1/oso12/document/windat.htm ---------------------------------302742180116157 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 NOAA, National Weather Service Emergency Managers Weather Information Network EMWIN Datastream Product Categories --------------------------------------------------------------------- The EMWIN system contains many categories of weather data products, with over 6,500 unique products. (Additional weather products are available elsewhere.) The current EMWIN datastream contains all generally available public products from the NWS Telecommunications Gateway, including the following product categories: Analyses Environmental/Air Pollution, Hydrological/Marine, Surface, Misc Climatic Products Daily Surface, Monthly Surface, Misc Forecasts Aerodrome, Aviation Area, Extended, Flash Flood Guidance, Headwater Guidance, Hydrological, Iceberg, Local/Area, Misc, Public, Recreation/Travelers, River, Shipping Area Graphics AFOS charts and map overlays Images GOES satellite Misc Civil Emergency Messages, Public Weather Statements Reports Radar, Seismic, Synoptic, Hydrological River, Drifting Buoy, Ice Severe Weather Warnings, Summaries, Statements, Advisories Warnings Tsunami/Tide, Tornado, River Flood, Lakeshore/Marine, Typhoon/Hurricane, Marine/Coastal Flood, Severe Thunderstorm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- These products can alternately be classified by their "display" type, plus their 3-character product "filename" abbreviation: Text These are the "readable text" products, of which there are dozens. These include the local and national watches and warnings, for example: EQR... Earthquakes FAA... Terminal Forecast FLW... Flood Warnings FFW... Flash Flood Warnings FFA... Flash Flood Advisories HLS... Local Hurricane Statements HUR... National Hurricane Statement LFP... Local Forecasts RVR... River Stages SVR... Severe Thunderstorm Warning SVS... Severe Weather Statement NOW... Short Term State Forecast SMW... Special Marine SPS... Special Weather Statements SFP... State Forecast STP... State Police Reports OTH... State Weather Summary SWR... State Weather Roundup ZFP... State Zone Forecasts SAO... Surface/Aviation Observations TOR... Tornado SUM... Weather Summaries WSW... Winter Storm Watch plus many others, such as international temperature charts, and so on. Graphics These are the AFOS GPH... products. There are over 200 different subtypes, including: clouds, dewpoint, fronts, humidity, isohyets, lightning, marine, precipation, pressure, radar, temperature, winds, and so on. Imagery These are the SAT... products (generally "CC1" images), as received from GOES satellites via NESDIS. Other These are the PIC... "interesting picture" products, which include stills of hurricanes and tornadoes, scanned charts of weather symbols and tutorials, weather screen examples found on the Internet, and so forth. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Last updated on 11 March 1996 Questions or comments: kkay@nws.noaa.gov Kevin Kay NWS EMWIN Project National Weather Service, W/OSO12 1325 East-West Highway, SSMC2, #16330 Silver Spring, Maryland 20910 (301) 713-0191 x172 --------------------------------------------------------------------- [NOAA Welcome Page] [NWS Welcome Page] [EMWIN] ---------------------------------302742180116157--