Enhance decision-making for renewable energy, sustainable infrastructure, and resilient communities amid observed climate variability through easy access to energy, flooding, and air-quality data products, tools, and valuable tools to become climate-ready.
2022 Proceedings
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Climate Science, Mitigation, Resilience, or Adaptation
, GIS Coordinator, UCAR
, Coastal Hazards Oceanographer, NOAA
, GIS Analyst & Commutations Lead, The NASA Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) Project
Session Type: User Presentations
Session Level: All Attendees
Presentation 1 Title: NASA POWER Enhances Decision-Making for Renewable Energy Projects Worldwide
Presentation 1 Speaker 1: Madison Broddle
Presentation 1 Abstract:
This presentation will provide information about POWER’s suite of tools that enhance decision-making for renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure projects worldwide. To improve decisions in high-value sectors at any location in the world, the NASA Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) provides freely available, easily accessible, customized, and trusted solar and meteorological data for both current and future climates. POWER provides over 300 parameters, derived from NASA Earth Observing (EO) data, that support community research in three focus areas: 1) renewable energy development, 2) building energy efficiency, and 3) agroclimatology applications. POWER helps communities to be resilient amid observed climate variability through the easy access of data products via several access methods and tools. This presentation will inform users about POWER’s ArcGIS Image Services, Data Access Viewer enhanced (created via Esri's Calcite Design System), and Application Programming Interface. Additionally, POWER’s entire data product catalog available through Amazon Web Services (AWS) Open Data Registry (ODR) via a free and publicly accessible Simple Storage Service (S3).
Presentation 2 Title: High Tide Flooding Outlooks Get a Geospatial Facelift
Presentation 2 Speaker 1: Analise Keeney
Presentation 2 Abstract: High tide flooding is now common due to climate change and sea level rise. Damaging floods that only historically occurred during moderate or major storms now happen more regularly, especially during full-moon cycles or minor storm events. To mitigate the impacts of flooding, NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services produces the annual State of High Tide Flooding and Outlook. Once a PDF, the product is now an interactive geospatial dashboard of projected high tide flooding days, regional flood statistics, and animated data visualizations. Enhancements rely on Esri infrastructure. Plots on a page come to life as interactive maps to view expected high tide flooding days out to the year 2050. With a click, flooding thresholds can be applied to visualize expected levels of inundation first hand. Data points become attributes for precise prediction of flooding based on regional sea level rise scenarios and years of observations. The combination of Python and GIS allow these products to be easily updated and remain evergreen. The seamless integration of these critical layers forms a useful tool for understanding climate impacts to become a climate-ready Nation.
Presentation 3 Title: Air Quality Dashboard in Support of Public Health
Presentation 3 Speaker 1: Jennifer Boehnert
Presentation 3 Abstract:
EPA health studies have shown a significant association between exposure to ambient air pollution and health risks. Health effects may include cardiovascular and respiratory effects. Although there are many toxins that have adverse impacts on health, pollutants, the strongest evidence for public health concern include particulate matter (PM), ozone (O3), and nitrogen dioxide (NO2). Long-term (2005-2018) high-resolution (12km x 12km) air quality products relevant for societal applications, were created at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) at the daily scale for the continental US. This volume of information can be challenging to work with for Public Health professionals. Using Esri's Dashboards, we created an air quality dashboard that maps and communicates the historical modeled air quality data aggregated at the state and county level for each year. Maps of air quality variables can be visualized along with statistics about air quality exceedances for the selected county. Workflows to process the netCDF model output to different spatial and temporal resolutions will be discussed, as well as considerations taken while developing the dashboard.
