Citizen Weather Observation Program (CWOP)

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74,000 reports/h, 53.6 million reports/month, 10,000+ stations, 12GB raw data per month

  1. Important to make the data accessible
  2. within the OWP
  3. usable via mashups or widgets
  4. consumable via visualizations
  5. computable by Web agents
  6. compatible with the Linked Data / Semantic Web
DW3904>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP:@090158z5132.18N/00043.53W_061/000g001t030r000p000P000h87b10389L000.DsVP
CW1604>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP:@090158z4444.70N/06531.17W_204/004g009t027r000p000P000h80b10204.DsVP
DW6741>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP:@090158z3749.55N/08000.08W_296/005g...t036r...p...P008h74b10188.DsVP
DW6916>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP:@090158z4310.23N/10818.40W_238/001g002t027r000p000P000h58b10189.DsVP
DW6011>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP:@090158z4307.07N/08756.60W_261/002g006t028r000p000P000h55b10249.DsVP

Interpolation process via map / reduce

A simple JavaScript library manages map/reduce in the browser so you can focus on the map and reduce functions.

This is what the OWP is designed to do:

a combination of intrinsic markup and generic JavaScript tooling that provides extensible functionality

Run it live!

For / °

at for minutes

coloring by range (°C, °C)

with quadrangle size °.

Polar vortex - 2014-01-23

22 seconds to render, 13.6 seconds data access.

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Polar vortex animation

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