介绍美国国家气象局的GIS数据门户主页

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http://www.nws.noaa.gov/gis/

    美国国家气象局（National Weather Service）是美国商务部国家海洋和大气管理局属下的六个部门之一，成立于1870年，总部位于马里兰州银泉，主要负责为美国及其属地、邻近水域及海洋地区提供天气、水文及气候预报和警报，藉以保护生命财产和国家经济。
                                                                National Weather Service GIS Data Portal

Many of the National Weather Service data sets are available in formats that are able to be imported directly into Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Data formats include downloadable shapefiles, web services and even KML files.

This page is a work-in-progress. As more data is made available in these formats, links to the data will be added to these pages. Click one of the GIS format links below in to start exploring the NWS GIS data currently available!

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KMLKeyhole Markup Language (KML) is used by a variety of GIS and mapping applications and the specifications are freely available to the public and available to the user community without charge or restriction. KML is an XML-based language for managing the display of three-dimensional geospatial data in the programs Google Earth, Google Maps, Google Mobile, ArcGIS Explorer, WorldWind and other GIS viewers . The word Keyhole is an earlier name for the software that became Google Earth; the software was produced in turn by Keyhole, Inc, which was acquired by Google in 2004. (more about KML)

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Shapefile

Shapefiles are a geospatial vector data format for geographic information systems software. Shapefiles spatially describe points, lines and polygons.  A "Shapefile" commonly refers to a collection of files with ".shp", ".shx", ".dbf", and other extensions on a common prefix name (i.e., "lakes.shp"). SHP files can be viewed in GIS viewers as well as more sophisticated GIS applications. (more about Shapefiles)

National Weather Service Base maps are available in Shapefiles. The AWIPS map database catalog contains background map data in Shapefile format that are used by the National Weather Service (NWS) for use by the user community. These data consist of a variety of official NWS forecast zones and county designations used by be NWS. In addition other data that might be of interest and that are used by the (NWS) Advanced Weather Information Processing System (AWIPS) are available through the catalog.

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Web Services/Geo located Images

This page contains links to data that are distributed via web server technology in the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).  In addition, some of the NWS data is available as geo-referenced image files such as geo-gifs.

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NWS Alerts as CAP

NWS provides access to watches, warnings, advisories, and other similar products in the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) and Atom Syndication Format (ATOM)..

jeffggg

嗯嗯感谢分享 美国的东东！

小崔不洗袜子

老师也推荐过这个网站，可是主要是看不懂啊。。。。

hillside

小崔不洗袜子 发表于 2013-6-12 14:30

                               
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老师也推荐过这个网站，可是主要是看不懂啊。。。。

有时间就瞄上几眼呗。看一行算一行。

zihan6688

努力学习英语，读懂美国

又是那隻貓

谢谢分享 努力学英语

gmengmeng

努力学E文，争取能看懂几行。嘿嘿

woshixiancai

帅呆了，正好用得上，

woshixiancai

刚刚接触shapefile格式，有点看不懂，看来还是得自己一个个print下。多谢！