GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric Sciences - Section 2.3 Working with Climate Model Simulations

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This is a freely available Geographic Information Systems (GIS) course geared towards GIS and weather and climate  students and practitioners. This course is intended to teach intermediate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) concepts, methods and terminology using weather and climate case studies.  

Section 2 - Intermediate GIS Functionality

Exercise 3 - Working with Climate Model Simulations

Technical skills you will learn:

  • Work with netCDF multidimensional data in GIS.
  • Graph temporal trends.

Required Software

ArcGIS 10.0 or higher

ArcGIS Pro

Authors

Jennifer Boehnert - National Center for Atmospheric Research

Greg Dobson - UNC Asheville's National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center

Paige Hoel - National Center for Atmospheric Research

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GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric Sciences - Section 2.2 Web Mapping with Climate Data

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This is a freely available Geographic Information Systems (GIS) course geared towards GIS and weather and climate  students and practitioners. This course is intended to teach intermediate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) concepts, methods and terminology using weather and climate case studies.  

Section 2 - Intermediate GIS Functionality

Exercise 2 - Web Mapping with Climate Data

Technical skills you will learn:

  • Create a web map with ArcGIS Online.
  • Add climate data to the web map.

Required Software

ArcGIS 10.0 or higher

ArcGIS Pro

 

Authors

Jennifer Boehnert - National Center for Atmospheric Research

Greg Dobson - UNC Asheville's National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center

Paige Hoel - National Center for Atmospheric Research

GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric Sciences - Section 2.1: Working with Raster Data

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This is a freely available Geographic Information Systems (GIS) course geared towards GIS and weather and climate  students and practitioners. This course is intended to teach intermediate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) concepts, methods and terminology using weather and climate case studies.  

Section 2 - Intermediate GIS Functionality

Exercise 1 - Working with Raster Data

Technical skills you will learn:

  • Access raw precipitation data from NOAA.
  • Interpolate point data into a raster.
  • Create a departure from normal grid.

Required Software

ArcGIS 10.0 or higher

ArcGIS Pro

ArcGIS Pro Download (39.14 MB)

Authors

Jennifer Boehnert - National Center for Atmospheric Research

Greg Dobson - UNC Asheville's National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center

Paige Hoel - National Center for Atmospheric Research

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GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric Sciences - Section 1.5: Coordinate Systems and Map Projections

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This is a freely available Geographic Information Systems (GIS) course geared towards GIS and weather and climate  students and practitioners. This course is intended to teach basic Geographic Information Systems (GIS) concepts, methods and terminology using weather and climate case studies. 

Section 1 - Basic GIS Fundamentals

Exercise 5 - Coordinate Systems and Map Projections

Technical skills you will learn:

  • Understand basic coordinate system information.
  • Working with Toolbox to manually alter coordinate systems.

Required Software

ArcGIS 10.0 or higher

ArcGIS Pro

 

Authors

Jennifer Boehnert, National Center for Atmospheric Research

J. Greg Dobson, University of North Carolina at Asheville

Patricia Carbajales, Clemson University

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GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric Sciences - Section 1.4: Cartographic Mapping

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This is a freely available Geographic Information Systems (GIS) course geared towards GIS and weather and climate  students and practitioners. This course is intended to teach basic Geographic Information Systems (GIS) concepts, methods and terminology using weather and climate case studies. 

Section 1 - Basic GIS Fundamentals

Exercise 4 - Cartographic Mapping

Technical skills you will learn:

  • Work in the Layout View to design a map.
  • Work with different map elements.
  • Disseminate and share your map.

Required Software

ArcGIS 10.0 or higher

ArcGIS Pro

ArcGIS Pro Download (28.82 MB)

Authors

Jennifer Boehnert, National Center for Atmospheric Research

J. Greg Dobson, University of North Carolina at Asheville

Patricia Carbajales, Clemson University

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GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric Sciences - Section 1.3: Data Symbology and Classification

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This is a freely available Geographic Information Systems (GIS) course geared towards GIS and weather and climate  students and practitioners. This course is intended to teach basic Geographic Information Systems (GIS) concepts, methods and terminology using weather and climate case studies.  

Section 1 - Basic GIS Fundamentals

Exercise 3 - Data Symbology and Classification

Technical skills you will learn:

  • Symbolize qualitative data.
  • Symbolize quantitative data.
  • Work with layer packages.
  • Render raster datasets.

Required Software

ArcGIS 10.0 or higher

ArcGIS Pro

 

Authors

Jennifer Boehnert - National Center for Atmospheric Research

Greg Dobson - UNC Asheville's National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center

Paige Hoel - National Center for Atmospheric Research

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GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric Sciences - Section 1.2: Exploring Spatial Data

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This is a freely available Geographic Information Systems (GIS) course geared towards GIS and weather and climate  students and practitioners. This course is intended to teach basic Geographic Information Systems (GIS) concepts, methods and terminology using weather and climate case studies. 

Section 1 - Basic GIS Fundamentals

Exercise 2 - Exploring Spatial Data

Technical skills you will learn:

  • Explore data format types in ArcGIS.
  • Work with vector data.
  • Add web services to your maps.
  • Explore raster datasets.

Required Software

ArcGIS 10.0 or higher

ArcGIS Pro

 

Authors

Jennifer Boehnert - National Center for Atmospheric Research

Greg Dobson - UNC Asheville's National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center

Paige Hoel - National Center for Atmospheric Research

GIS Product Type

GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric Sciences - Section 1.1: Basic GIS Fundamentals

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This is a freely available Geographic Information Systems (GIS) course geared towards GIS and weather and climate  students and practitioners. This course is intended to teach basic Geographic Information Systems (GIS) concepts, methods and terminology using weather and climate case studies.  

Section 1 - Basic GIS Fundamentals

Exercise 1 - Introduction to GIS

Technical skills you will learn:

  • Open and explore the software interface.
  • Add data to the map.
  • Work with attribute data.

Required Software

ArcGIS 10.0 or higher

ArcGIS Pro

ArcGIS Pro Download (39.51 MB)

Authors

Jennifer Boehnert - National Center for Atmospheric Research

Greg Dobson - UNC Asheville's National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center

Paige Hoel - National Center for Atmospheric Research

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Envisioning Risk of Hurricane Storm Surge and Sea-Level Rise: Visualizing Storm Surge

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In this exercise you will work with storm surge forecast data from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) map services as well as data that has been downloaded. You will experiment displaying the data in a number of ways to help communicate the risk of storm surge. You will then create a 3D scene for Tybee Island in Georgia and display the storm surge alongside realistic looking buildings to better understand the impact from flooding.

Technical skills you will learn:

  • Add NOAA SLOSH model data to ArcGIS Pro from AGOL.
  • Mapping surge using different display methods.
  • Mapping the landscape on Tybee Island.
  • Publish the 3D data to AGOL.

This exercise was developed for the NCAR GIS Program BRIGHTE Workshop : Envisioning risk of hurricane storm surge and sea-level rise that took place the summer of  2019 and the summer of 2020.

Exercise (1 MB)

Authors

Jennifer Boehnert, National Center for Atmospheric Research

J. Greg Dobson, University of North Carolina at Asheville

Patricia Carbajales, Clemson University

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Envisioning Risk of Hurricane Storm Surge and Sea-Level Rise: Visualizing Sea Level Rise

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 In this exercise, you will learn how to access and explore this data using ArcGIS Pro. You will do some simple analysis to understand how sea level rise may impact building infrastructure. The analysis and data exploration will be done using both 2D and 3D visualization. Finally, you will learn to create a virtual fly-through of a 3D scene and export that as movie animation.

Technical skills you will learn:

  • Accessing and exploring NOAA Sea Level rise data.
  • Using basic analysis to highlight sea level rise impacts.
  • Viewing sea level rise data in 3D.
  • Animating a scene to create a virtual fly-through.

This exercise was developed for the NCAR GIS Program BRIGHTE Workshop : Envisioning risk of hurricane storm surge and sea-level rise  that took place the summer of  2019 and the summer of 2020.

Exercise (2.02 MB)
Maps and Data (30.51 MB)

Authors

Jennifer Boehnert, National Center for Atmospheric Research

J. Greg Dobson, University of North Carolina at Asheville

Patricia Carbajales, Clemson University

GIS Product Type