Applied Meteorology Using ArcGIS

Meteorological data and information products protect lives and property, drive economic growth, and support decision-making. GIS helps meteorologists and analysts leverage complex weather observations and models along with visualizations to better inform the public.  In this webinar, you will gain an understanding of how GIS can be used to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to create forecasts and predictions from big data. You will learn how GIS can visualize and analyze temperature and precipitation changes over time, monitor stationary sensors, disseminate information securely, and better respond in real-time. 

The following are some resources to help you get started:

• Downscale Climate Data with Machine Learning—tutorial
• Predict Weather with Real-Time Data—tutorial
• Visualizing Seasonal Climate Patterns with Imagery—Seasonal Changes web app activity

Additional resources can be accessed in the Esri Community.

Assessing climate impacts and areas at risk requires an interdisciplinary approach, leveraging data from demographics, social sciences, and environmental applications that traditional weather analysis packages are not optimized to handle. GIS technology gives the user virtually limitless potential to analyze and contextualize data from a multitude of observations and models to identify climate patterns and impacts. In this webinar, attendees will learn how to perform mapping and analysis of weather, demographic, and environmental data using ArcGIS software and Python tools for desktop and online environments.  

The following are some resources to help you get started: 

• ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World weather and climate content 
  
• Collection of tutorials focused on climate
  
• Climate Data Hub—Esri ArcGIS Hub site 
  

Additional resources can be accessed in Esri Community. 

• National, regional, and local weather organizations have a requirement to provide weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather watches to constituents in public safety, insurance, and other communities of interest. The public also depends on them for the protection of life and property, safety, and enhancement of the national economy. In this webinar, you will learn how the ArcGIS ecosystem provides the ability to ingest multidimensional data, visualize data in support of forecasts, and securely disseminate this information readily by way of GIS-ready map services. You will see demonstrations on how to easily access data products from national weather authorities for use in web-based applications.

The following are some resources to help you get started:

• Access Climate Data
• Web Applications
• Publishing an Image Service

Additional resources can be accessed in Esri Community.

Weather extremes cause many different types of natural disasters like tornadoes and flash floods. Meteorological forces driving individual extreme weather events are increasingly understood in the context of larger regional or even global processes. Weather authorities can optimize global hydrologic models with the aid of big data downscaling and augmented local river stream flow information, driving progress toward local relevance and application for better decision-making. In this webinar, you will see organizations—from local to national—collaborate and coordinate analytics, and you will learn how to downscale river data to better visualize stream flow information. You will also see how best to leverage a series of global or local apps, coding tools, and geospatial data infrastructure to interact with big data alongside local data and gain comprehensive insights into the water ecosystem.

The following are some resources to help you get started:

• "A New Approach to Flood Mapping"
• ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World hydrology content
• "How Technology and GIS Students Aided Response to the Great Flood of 2019"

Additional resources can be accessed in the Esri Community.

Weather warnings and watches issued by national and regional authorities are the primary means of communicating the risk of severe weather to the public. Operationally, this communication requires cross-agency collaboration and coordination, which are made easier with cloud-based GIS technology such as ArcGIS Online. This webinar will demonstrate how GIS technology improves weather hazard warnings and watches and enhances communication between forecasters and the public. You will learn how GIS facilitates modernized virtual and on-the-fly statewide and national briefings. Briefings are delivered during dynamic situations with current streaming refresh capabilities, and virtual chat functionality allows agile, tactical decision-making for enhanced hazard mitigation and resource deployment.

Refer to these resources for additional information:

• Mapping the way to climate resilience
• NOAA climate resilience toolkit for the use case
• AT&T Taps Advanced Analytics to Map Decades of Climate Risk 
  

Additional resources can be accessed in the Esri Community.