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NOUS42 KCHS 242152
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GAZ087-088-099>101-114>119-137>141-SCZ040-042>045-047>052-260000-
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT - SERVICE CHANGE NOTICE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HEADQUARTERS WASHINGTON DC
451 PM EST MON FEB 24 2014
TO: SUBSCRIBERS:
-FAMILY OF SERVICES
-NOAA WEATHER WIRE SERVICE
-EMERGENCY MANAGERS WEATHER INFORMATION NETWORK
-NOAAPORT
OTHER NWS PARTNERS AND NWS EMPLOYEES
FROM: MICHAEL EMLAW
METEOROLOGIST-IN-CHARGE
WFO CHARLESTON SC
SUBJECT: IDENTIFIER CHANGE AND IMPLEMENTATION OF FORMAL
CLIMATE PRODUCTS FOR DOWNTOWN CHARLESTON SC...
EFFECTIVE APRIL 1 2014.
ON APRIL 1 2014...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA WILL IMPLEMENT 5 NEW CLIMATE PRODUCTS FOR
DOWNTOWN CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA. IN ADDITION...THE FREE-FORM
CLIMATE INFORMATION FOR DOWNTOWN CHARLESTON WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE
NORTH CHARLESTON CLIMATE PRODUCT SUITE.
ALSO ON THE ABOVE DATE...THE IDENTIFIER FOR THE DOWNTOWN CHARLESTON
WEATHER SENSOR WILL CHANGE FROM CHLS1 TO KCXM.
TABLE 1 - CLIMATE PRODUCT SUITE IDENTIFIERS
PRODUCT AWIPS ID WMO HEADER
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DAILY CLIMATE PRODUCT CLICXM CDUS42 KCHS
MONTHLY CLIMATE PRODUCT CLMCXM CXUS52 KCHS
YEARLY CLIMATE SUMMARY CLACXM CXUS52 KCHS
RECORD REPORT RERCXM SXUS72 KCHS
PRELIM LOCAL CLIMATE DATA/F-6 CF6CXM CXUS52 KCHS
USERS WHO WISH TO RECEIVE THESE NEW PRODUCTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO
PROGRAM THEIR SYSTEMS BEFORE THE APRIL 1 IMPLEMENTATION DATE.
QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS SERVICE CHANGE SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO...
JULIE PACKETT MICHAEL EMLAW
CLIMATE FOCAL POINT METEOROLOGIST-IN-CHARGE
NOAA/NWS CHARLESTON SC NOAA/NWS CHARLESTON SC
5777 S. AVIATION AVE 5777 S. AVIATION AVE
NORTH CHARLESTON SC 29406-6162 NORTH CHARLESTON SC 29406-6162
PHONE: 843-744-0303 PHONE: 843-744-2236
EMAIL: JULIE.PACKETT@NOAA.GOV EMAIL: MICHAEL.EMLAW@NOAA.GOV
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GAZ087-088-099>101-114>119-137>141-SCZ040-042>045-047>052-260000-
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT - SERVICE CHANGE NOTICE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HEADQUARTERS WASHINGTON DC
451 PM EST MON FEB 24 2014
TO: SUBSCRIBERS:
-FAMILY OF SERVICES
-NOAA WEATHER WIRE SERVICE
-EMERGENCY MANAGERS WEATHER INFORMATION NETWORK
-NOAAPORT
OTHER NWS PARTNERS AND NWS EMPLOYEES
FROM: MICHAEL EMLAW
METEOROLOGIST-IN-CHARGE
WFO CHARLESTON SC
SUBJECT: IDENTIFIER CHANGE AND IMPLEMENTATION OF FORMAL
CLIMATE PRODUCTS FOR DOWNTOWN CHARLESTON SC...
EFFECTIVE APRIL 1 2014.
ON APRIL 1 2014...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA WILL IMPLEMENT 5 NEW CLIMATE PRODUCTS FOR
DOWNTOWN CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA. IN ADDITION...THE FREE-FORM
CLIMATE INFORMATION FOR DOWNTOWN CHARLESTON WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE
NORTH CHARLESTON CLIMATE PRODUCT SUITE.
ALSO ON THE ABOVE DATE...THE IDENTIFIER FOR THE DOWNTOWN CHARLESTON
WEATHER SENSOR WILL CHANGE FROM CHLS1 TO KCXM.
TABLE 1 - CLIMATE PRODUCT SUITE IDENTIFIERS
PRODUCT AWIPS ID WMO HEADER
----------------------------- -------- -----------
DAILY CLIMATE PRODUCT CLICXM CDUS42 KCHS
MONTHLY CLIMATE PRODUCT CLMCXM CXUS52 KCHS
YEARLY CLIMATE SUMMARY CLACXM CXUS52 KCHS
RECORD REPORT RERCXM SXUS72 KCHS
PRELIM LOCAL CLIMATE DATA/F-6 CF6CXM CXUS52 KCHS
USERS WHO WISH TO RECEIVE THESE NEW PRODUCTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO
PROGRAM THEIR SYSTEMS BEFORE THE APRIL 1 IMPLEMENTATION DATE.
QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS SERVICE CHANGE SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO...
JULIE PACKETT MICHAEL EMLAW
CLIMATE FOCAL POINT METEOROLOGIST-IN-CHARGE
NOAA/NWS CHARLESTON SC NOAA/NWS CHARLESTON SC
5777 S. AVIATION AVE 5777 S. AVIATION AVE
NORTH CHARLESTON SC 29406-6162 NORTH CHARLESTON SC 29406-6162
PHONE: 843-744-0303 PHONE: 843-744-2236
EMAIL: JULIE.PACKETT@NOAA.GOV EMAIL: MICHAEL.EMLAW@NOAA.GOV
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times and I will avoid doing this again. Everybody wants to use equipment that will
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Just trying to keep up.
NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Coasts /(NTHMP)
NATONAL TSUNAMI HAZZARD MITIGATION PROGRAM
Tsunami Preparedness Week on Social Media
During Tsunami Preparedness Week, follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Each day (Mon-Fri) our posts will focus on a theme:
- Monday - It's Tsunami Preparedness Week/What's a Tsunami
- Tuesday - Know Your Tsunami Risk
- Wednesday - Tsunami Warnings
- Thursday - 50th Anniversary of the Great Alaska Earthquake and Tsunamis
- Friday - Tsunami Safety
Carribean Tsunami Warning Program Activities
- March 26: Help coordinate participation of the Caribbean and adjacent regions in the regional tsunami exercise (CARIBE WAVE/LANTEX14). Click here to register.
Coasts
More than half of the U.S. population lives in coastal counties — areas that encompass oceans and coasts, bays, estuaries and the Great Lakes — and the number will continue to grow according to a recent NOAA's State of the Coastwebsite.
Coastal waters are rich in living and non-living marine resources that sustain prosperity and economic growth nationwide. Coastal areas are hubs of commerce, home to many major American corporations, ports and transportation networks. Maritime commerce along and through our coastal ports of entry annually moves more than two billion tons of domestic and international freight. The fishing industry's 110,000 commercial and recreational vessels contribute $111 billion annually to the economy. The coasts are used by millions of Americans annually for recreation. They support a surging tourist trade that is the nation's largest employer with America's beaches being the leading tourist destination.
NOAA protects, preserves, manages, restores and enhances the nation's coastal resources and ecosystems along 95,439 miles of United States' shoreline. Through the Coastal Zone Management Program, NOAA works with state and territory coastal resource managers to share knowledge, promote research and pursue innovative management strategies and techniques. The NOAA Coastal Services Center supports the environmental, social, and economic well being of the coast by linking people, information, and technology with the delivery of NOAA products and programs to coastal managers, non-profits and other federal, state and local agencies.
NOAA also maintains a network of marine protected areas including the National Estuarine Research Reserves and National Marine Sanctuaries and a national marine monument that protect habitats and provide venues for research, recreation and education.
NOAA's National Sea Grant College Program engages a network of the nation’s top universities in conducting scientific research, education, training, and extension projects designed to foster science-based decisions about the use and conservation of our coastal aquatic resources.
It is through these programs and others that NOAA is working to protect, restore and manage the use of coastal resources
North Carolina
General Tsunami Information
Washington
Activities
- Tsunami Train-the-Trainer for five coastal tribes
- March 19: Table top exercise using Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake/Tsunami scenario for Governor's cabinet and other agency executives
- March 20, 2014: Facilitate the PACIFEX14 table top exercise in which the Washington State/Local Tsunami Workgroup will participate
- March 26, 2014: Host an exercise that will simulate a tsunami generated by a major earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone
- Disaster Response Training Program for the Quinault Casino, which will train staff on tsunamis and tsunami preparedness
General Tsunami Information
Washington Military Department Emergency Management Division / Living on the Ring of Fire and its Consequences: The 1964 Good Friday Alaskan Earthquake and Tsunami / Grays Harbor County Division of Emergency Management / Jefferson County Department of Emergency Management: Tsunami Information / Pacific County Emergency Management Agency: Tsunami
Florida
Activities
- Volusia, Brevard, Indian River, St. Lucie, and Martin Counties are participating in the Caribbean/Northwestern Atlantic tsunami warning exercise (CARIBE WAVE/LANTEX14). Participation includes verifying receipt of the initial exercise notification, holding planning meetings coincident with the exercise to simulate decision-making during an actual tsunami threat, and taking part in webinar briefings with National Weather Service Melbourne
U.S. Virgin Islands
General Tsunami Information
Tsunami Preparedness Week on Social Media
During Tsunami Preparedness Week, follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Each day (Mon-Fri) our posts will focus on a theme:
- Monday - It's Tsunami Preparedness Week/What's a Tsunami
- Tuesday - Know Your Tsunami Risk
- Wednesday - Tsunami Warnings
- Thursday - 50th Anniversary of the Great Alaska Earthquake and Tsunamis
- Friday - Tsunami Safety
Tsunami Preparedness Week Media
General Tsunami Information
- Current National and Pacific Tsunami Warning Center warnings, advisories, and watches
- National Weather Service National Tsunami Warning Center and Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
- Caribbean Tsunami Warning Program
- TsunamiReady
- Tsunami
- National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program
- Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory YouTube Page: Videos about tsunami basics, the Japan tsunami, and more
- National Geophysical Data Center: Natural Hazards Data, Images and Education
- Tsunami Training Modules: Tsunamis, Tsunami Warning Systems, Community Tsunami Preparedness, Tsunami Strike (Caribbean and Pacific editions)
Alaska
Activities
- March 22: The State of Alaska will participate in an open house at the National Tsunami Warning Center.
- March 27: The State of Alaska is planning to conduct a live code tsunami warning test for coastal Alaska. The partnership for the test includes the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, NOAA, and the Alaska Broadcasters Association. Press releases and public service announcements will be sent to all media prior to the test, and information will be broadcast on the statewide Alaska Weather show nightly for one week prior to the test. An online post-test survey will be conducted to evaluate the test. The State of Alaska Emergency Operations Center will be activated and will contact all tsunami-threatened communities to verify receipt of the test as well as contact names and numbers.
- March 27: Great Alaska ShakeOut earthquake drill (1:36pm AKDT)
- March 27: Remembering the Great Quake at the Anchorage Museum - The 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the 1964 earthquake and tsunamis will include guest speakers from state government, Dr. George Plafker, and an open mic for survivors of the event.
- During Tsunami Preparedness Week, tsunami preparedness information will be aired during the local evening news. Tsunami brochures, fliers, children's booklets, coasters, etc. will be distributed.
- April 11-September 14: Riskland: Remembering the 1964 Earthquake at the Anchorage Museum
General Tsunami Information
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- TsuInfo Alert - Multiple Articles
- Remembering 1964: Media Webinar - Recording, Slides
- National Weather Service Public Information Statement - Tsunami Preparedness Week Is March 23-29
- NOAA's Weather-Ready Nation: 50 Years Later: Remembering the Great Alaska Earthquake and Tsunami of 1964
- National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Weekly Four-Panel - Past Disasters and Future Threats: Tsunami Products from NGDC (Tsunami Preparedness Week, March 23-29, 2014)
- The Commerce Blog - NOAA’s Modeling and Mapping Data Enhance Nation’s Ability to Provide Tsunami Warnings along U.S. Coastlines
- Press Release - NOAA Sponsors National Tsunami Preparedness Week, March 23-29
Saturday, March 22, 2014
NASA has a heart
03/21/2014 12:00 PM EDT
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This new Hubble image is centered on NGC 5793, a spiral galaxy over
150 million light-years away in the constellation of Libra. This galaxy has two particularly
striking features: a beautiful dust lane and an intensely bright center — much brighter than
that of our own galaxy, or indeed those of most spiral galaxies we observe. NGC 5793 is a
Seyfert galaxy. These galaxies have incredibly luminous centers that are thought to be
caused by hungry supermassive black holes — black holes that can be billions of times
the size of the sun — that pull in and devour gas and dust from their surroundings. This
galaxy is of great interest to astronomers for many reasons. For one, it appears to house
objects known as masers. Whereas lasers emit visible light, masers emit microwave
radiation. The term "masers" comes from the acronym Microwave Amplification by
Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Maser emission is caused by particles that absorb
energy from their surroundings and then re-emit this in the microwave part of the spectrum.
Naturally occurring masers, like those observed in NGC 5793, can tell us a lot about their
environment; we see these kinds of masers in areas where stars are forming. In NGC 5793 there
are also intense mega-masers, which are thousands of times more luminous than the sun.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and E. Perlman (Florida Institute of Technology)
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Wordiness: Danger Signals and Ways to React
Wordiness: Danger Signals and Ways to React
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One of the most efficient ways to improve your writing is to edit it for conciseness. You may have been struggling to think ideas through as you wrote, and piled up alternative wordings. Or you may have fallen into the habit of using more words than necessary just to use up space. If you can let your original draft "cool down" a while, you will find it easy to recognize unnecessary words and edit them out. Your reader will thank you! Here are some common patterns of wordiness, with sensible things to do about them.
Doubling of Words (choose one):
Intensifiers, Qualifiers (omit or give specific details):
Formulaic Phrases (use a one-word form or omit):
Catch-all Terms (can sometimes omit):
Padded Verbs (use a one-word form):
Unnecessary "to be" and "being" (omit):
Passive Verbs (change to active voice, if possible with a personal subject):
Overuse of Relative Structures ("Who," "Which," "That") (omit when possible ):
http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/style-and-editing/wordiness Toronto University Writing Support (2014) Retrieved from http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/style-and- editing/wordiness |
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Writing Advice « The Barker Underground
[Sequential Transitions: Here, we’re not talking so much about “first, second, third.” Rather, this kind of transition points more towards the ideas that logically follow each other. Words such as “therefore” or “then,” or phrases like “This indicates that…”, show a relationship between the ideas. These transitions are used when one idea is the premise on which the next idea depends or when the second idea comes as a deduction from the first.
- [Here are a few useful types of transitions to keep in mind Mai, k., 2013]
Examples: Thus, Therefore, Then; It follows that, This indicates that, This implies that; From this we can see that, What this means is that…Comparative Transitions: Sometimes, it’s not so much that one idea is derivative of another, but rather that they share some sort of property. This is especially useful when the relationship between the two ideas isn’t obvious. This type of transition is useful in comparative essays (for obvious reasons) but also instrumental when you are using analogies to make a point about some sort of topic (such as talking about islands to make a point about transitions!)
Examples: Like, Also, Similarly; Just as, In the same vein; This idea can also be seen in…, A similar phenomenon is found in …Contrastive Transitions: There are times when you’re neither describing premise-conclusion relationships nor looking at similarities, but instead focusing on contrasts: “This author says this, but that author says that.” “This appears to be the case, but in reality, it’s something else.” These transitions are useful not only in compare-and-contrast essays, but also whenever you’re trying to debunk a claim or to show another side of an issue. These words can also help you to move on to an entirely different issue.
Examples: But, Though, However, Nevertheless/Nonetheless; Then again, On the other hand, At the same time; This ignores, It’s not…but rather, The difference between…and…is that…Summing Up Transitions: You’ve established an idea and thrown lots of brilliant evidence our way. Now what? In order to make sure your readers won’t miss important information, it’s a good idea provide the quick and dirty version of the ideas you just laid out before introducing your big, final insight.
Examples: Essentially, Basically, Ultimately; In short, In other words, That is to say; This boils down to, The main point is…
- Ultimately, the goal of these tools is to bring a sense of cohesion to your paper by showing the logical progression of your thoughts; they’re signposts telling your reader which bridge to cross and what the two islands linked by that bridge have to do with each other. These signposts ought to be everywhere within your paper, moving your reader between phrases and sentences in addition to paragraphs or larger chunks. Sometimes multiple signposts are needed to guide a reader across the bridge, because of the complex relationship of those two ideas. The primary goal to keep in mind, though, is to make sure your reader has a smooth trip. That’s how you make your paper flow.
- In my next post, I’ll offer some examples of transitional sentences and paragraphs Mai, K., 2014]
Building Bridges Between Your Paragraphs
by Kenneth Mai
Reference
Mai, K., (2013, March 28,). Retrieved from http://harvardwritingcenter.
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