Fire Weather Zones
Metadata:
- Identification_Information:
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- Citation:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: National Weather Service
- Publication_Date: First Created 2002
- Title: Fire Weather Zones
- Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
- Online_Linkage: <http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/firezone.htm>
- Description:
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- Abstract: National Weather Service (NWS) Fire Weather Zones.
- Purpose:
- This data set is used to delineate the Fire Weather Zones that are used by NWS in the fire weather forecast program.
- Time_Period_of_Content:
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- Time_Period_Information:
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- Range_of_Dates/Times:
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- Beginning_Date: 2002
- Ending_Date: Present
- Currentness_Reference: Data updated as needed
- Status:
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- Progress: Complete
- Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Continually
- Spatial_Domain:
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- Bounding_Coordinates:
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- West_Bounding_Coordinate: -179.133163
- East_Bounding_Coordinate: 179.788025
- North_Bounding_Coordinate: 71.398094
- South_Bounding_Coordinate: 5.259833
- Keywords:
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- Theme:
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- Theme_Keyword: Fire Weather Zones
- Place:
- Temporal:
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- Temporal_Keyword: Current
- Access_Constraints: No Restrictions
- Use_Constraints: No use Restrictions
- Point_of_Contact:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Person_Primary:
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- Contact_Person: Ira Graffman
- Contact_Organization: NOAA/NWS/OST
- Contact_Position: Physical Scientist
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: 301 713 0763 x 104
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 301 713 9395
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: ira.graffman@noaa.gov
- Native_Data_Set_Environment:
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.3.0.800
- Data_Quality_Information:
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- Attribute_Accuracy:
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- Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
- All attributes were verifed by the individual Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) by inspection of the data with a GIS or by viewing a hard or software image of the data. Error reports of errors received from WFO's and external users also contributed to the accuracy of the Attributes.
- Logical_Consistency_Report:
- These data are believed to be logically consistent. Testing was performed by finding the smallest polygons and determining them to be "slivers" or genuine polygons and by overlaying a large polygon and combining, to find "holes' in the data. Since this data set is a polygon shapefile line geometry is presumed to be topologically clean.
- Completeness_Report:
- The shoreline boundaries of the data is dependent on the shoreline edges of rivers and bays as delineated on a USGS DLG The edges or borders of the boundary might change as the natural land changes and WFOs request changes. The zone boundaries are consistent with county boundaries when county boundaries coorespond to zone boundaries and the accuracy of the zone boundries that do not lie on county boundaries as provided by the WFO or other sources containing boundaries for National and State Forests.
- Positional_Accuracy:
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- Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
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- Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
- The data was created from USGS 1:2,000,000 DLG county data and assumed to have the same horizontal accuracy of that data. set. The internal accuracy of the zones that "split" counties varies depending on the criteria used to "split" the county (township line, coutour line, hand drawn, etc).
- Lineage:
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- Source_Information:
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- Source_Citation:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: National Weather Service
- Publication_Date: 1995
- Title: Public Forecast Zones
- Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
- Online_Linkage: <http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/pubzone.htm>
- Source_Scale_Denominator: 2,000,000
- Type_of_Source_Media: online shapefile in "zip" format
- Source_Information:
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- Source_Citation:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: National Park Service
- Publication_Date: April 1999
- Title: National Park System Boundary Dataset
- Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
- Source_Scale_Denominator: 2,000,000
- Type_of_Source_Media: Shapefile
- Process_Step:
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- Process_Description:
- The Public Forecast Zone shapefile was copied to become a Fire Weather Zone shapefile. Information, either in digital (shapefile) or text form was obtained from the WFOs for those fire zones that differ from the public zones. Approriate edits were made using polygon splits and unions to create the fire weather zones.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: Public Forecast Zones
- Process_Date: 20030120
- Process_Contact:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Person_Primary:
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- Contact_Person: Ira Graffman
- Contact_Organization: DOC/NOAA/NWS/SEC
- Contact_Position: Physical Scientist
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: 301 713 0763 x 104
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 301 714 9395
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: ira.graffman@noaa.gov
- Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
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- Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
- Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
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- SDTS_Terms_Description:
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- SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: G-polygon
- Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 3052
- Spatial_Reference_Information:
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- Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
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- Geographic:
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- Latitude_Resolution: 0.000278
- Longitude_Resolution: 0.000278
- Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees
- Geodetic_Model:
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- Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983
- Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
- Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000
- Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222101
- Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
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- Detailed_Description:
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- Entity_Type:
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- Entity_Type_Label: fz
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: FID
- Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain:
- Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: Shape
- Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.
- Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
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- Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: STATE
- Attribute_Definition: State Abbreviation
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: ZONE
- Attribute_Definition: Zone Number
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: CWA
- Attribute_Definition: Id of WFO responsible for zone
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: NAME
- Attribute_Definition: Name of forecast zone
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: STATE_ZONE
- Attribute_Definition: State and zone number
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: TIME_ZONE
- Attribute_Definition: Time zone
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: FE_AREA
- Attribute_Definition: Not used
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: LAT
- Attribute_Definition: Longitude of centroid of zone
- Attribute:
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- Attribute_Label: LON
- Attribute_Definition: Latitude of centroid of zone
- Distribution_Information:
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- Distributor:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Person_Primary:
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- Contact_Person: Ira Graffman
- Contact_Organization: DOC/NOAA/NWS/OST
- Contact_Position: Physical Scientist
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: 1325 East West Highway
- City: Silver Spring
- State_or_Province: MD
- Postal_Code: 20910
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: 301 713 0763 x 104
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 301 713 9395
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: ira.graffman@noaa.gov
- Resource_Description: Downloadable Data
- Standard_Order_Process:
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- Format_Name: Shapefile
- File_Decompression_Technique: Zip
- Transfer_Size: 16.407
- Fees: None
- Metadata_Reference_Information:
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- Metadata_Date: 20030416
- Metadata_Contact:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Organization_Primary:
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- Contact_Organization: NOAA/NWS/OST
- Contact_Person: Ira Graffman
- Contact_Position: Physical Scientist
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: 1325 East West Highway
- City: Silver Spring
- State_or_Province: MD
- Postal_Code: 20910
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: 301 713 0763 x 104
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 301 713 9395
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: ira.grafffman@noaa.gov
- Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
- Metadata_Time_Convention: local time
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