In fact, NEXRAD data are suited for distribution by cloud storage services. taxpayer,” according to a journal article co-authored by NCEI’s Steve Ansari and researchers at NOAA, NCEI, and several data partners. “This collective effort among federal government, private industry, and academia has already realized a number of new and novel applications that employ NOAA’s NEXRAD data, at no net cost to the U.S. The Big Data Partnership aims to cultivate new lines of business and economic growth while making NOAA's data more easily accessible. The Google collaboration expands NCEI’s suite of data alliances, which have been established with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, IBM, and the Open Commons Consortium. The availability of the historical weather radar data in the Google Cloud comes about as an effort of NOAA’s Big Data Partnership, which furthers several goals: greater data accessibility, improved efficiency for users, and innovation. Now, Google Cloud becomes an additional dissemination point. As the official federal archive of the entire historical dataset, NCEI disseminates the information. NCEI receives the atmospheric data from 160 sites in an observation system that includes all the National Weather Service stations and select Department of Defense sites. Further, NEXRAD data contribute to weather forecasts and warnings, air traffic control, and the management of water, agriculture, and forests, among other uses. These data are critical for precipitation estimates, hail estimates, storm motion, and early detection of tornadoes, ice, snow, flash floods, and destructive wind.
NEXRAD Level-II data consist of the basic size, shape, and motion of raindrops, hail or debris detected in the atmosphere by each NEXRAD radar. Our historical archive and near real-time data of Level-II Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) are now available as a public dataset on Google Cloud Storage. A new partnership between NCEI and Google represents another big step toward greater public access to environmental data.
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