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Utilizing your School Network
John McLaughlin
KCCI-TV, Des Moines, IA
Daryl Herzmann
Iowa State University
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KCCI SchoolNet8 Overview
51 stations have been installed since Dec 2000
Each station reports continuously to the Internet
Generating over 500,000 page views per month
Increased KCCI's visibility in rural communities
and ratings dominance
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On-Air Awards
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Student Involvement
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Explaining the Sensors
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Local Media Coverage
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Local Media Coverage
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Baron Display
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Baron Display
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Integration with FasTrac / Baron Hydro
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But now what?
Too much data to watch!
Manual relay of information to the NWS difficult
during severe weather coverage
Management of the network difficult
Then along came the Iowa Environmental
Mesonet.
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The Iowa Environmental Mesonet
Project of Iowa State University to collect data
from the many observing platforms in the state.
We have built an extensive and diverse real-time
monitoring network utilizing existing resources.
KCCI SchoolNet8 is a very important component
of our Mesonet.
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Building our Partnership
Public Sector
Private Sector Academia
Double Hydro-ObsRealTime AnalysisWind Gust Reports
Data sourceReal-timeOutreach to K12
Data ProcessingProgrammingVisibility
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Data Formats
FormatStorm Prediction Center METARRiver Forecast Center SHEFNWS Forecast Office AWIPS-CDF
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Data Distribution
Academic community via UNIDATA LDM
General public via web / HTTP
GIS community
Downloadable shapefiles
Publicly available Spatial Database
WMS/WFS web services
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Why share your school data?
Increases visibility for your network
Increases value of site to local community
Motivates schools to maintain and use the data
Local community supports and monitors the site via
your TV station and website!
Builds goodwill with your collaborators
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IEM SchoolNet8: Value added
Average wind data for better analysis
QC the data through FSL MADIS project
Archive every observation, available for
download
IEM Tracker, tracks meta-data
Reformat data for wide spread use
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IEM SchoolNet8: Value added
Integration with Super Doppler on the web
Wind gusts alerts
Audible alarm at the studio
Audible/Text alert at the NWS
Email alerts for anybody on the internet!
Other unique web applications
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Website before
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Website after!
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RADAR!
CAMERA!
OB!
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Textual and Graphical
Current Conditions!
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Where is it raining?Combine live radar with live
SchoolNet 15 minute rainfall
accumulations.
Great tool for evaluating
rainfall intensities.
Great tool for finding sites
with plugged tipping buckets!
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Dynamic RADAR + SchoolNet8
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Alerting the NWS
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Your SchoolNet @ work
18 June 2003: Nevada SchoolNet
Early afternoon with widespread thunderstorm
activity.
Automated wind alert system comes through!
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RADAR Loop
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At 1:34 PM, an alert is generated
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KCCI SchoolNet8 Wind Gust Alert
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Time: 01:34 pm -- 18 June 2003
Site: NEVADA COMMUNITY
Gust: 58 MPH
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At 1:37 PM, the NWS warns137 PM CDT WED JUN 18 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DES MOINES HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN STORY COUNTY IN CENTRAL IOWA
* UNTIL 230 PM CDT
7 MILES WEST OF COLLINS AROUND 150 PM AND
NEAR MAXWELL AROUND 155 PM.
DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 TO 70 MILES AN HOUR ARE LIKELY IN THE
WARNED AREA. THE KCCI SCHOOLNET SITE IN NEVADA REPORTED 58
MPH WINDS AT 134 PM.
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Temperature Trace
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Wind Trace
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Pressure/Rainfall Trace
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Summary
Get your Baron NWN built
Get FasTrac and plot those sites in real-time on
air with your RADAR blowing away your
competition.
Partner up to widely distribute the data (I can
help here)
Wait, there's more!
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Introducing... InsecTracTM
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Web-Cameras
KCCI currently has 3 on-line, more coming
Real-time integration with FasTrac
Some example lapses...