Presentations & Docs:

• 28 Jul 2003: NEXRAD + Mapserver HOWTO
  A HowTo on generating NEXRAD composite images with GEMPAK and serving them out with Mapserver.
• IEM Presentation Archive
  The IEM has given a number of GIS related talks. You can browse an archive of presentations.

Web Applications:

• NEXRAD w/ warnings
• COOP Daily Extremes and Averages
• Dynamic Plotting
• IEM Site Locator

Links:

• GIS Severe Weather reports
  Archive of NCDC provided storm reports!
• NCDC GIS Portal
  National Climate Data Center GIS goodies
• NSSL Google Earth Data
  Weather data integrated into Google Earth!
• Oregon State PRISM
  These folks provide nationwide GIS ready datasets of climate data. Their site is outstanding!
• GIS Software
• Scott Shipley's NEXRAD to shapefile converter.
• USDA PRISM data page (GIS Climate Data).
• Iowa Natural Resources Geographic Information System (NRGIS)
• NOAA's Ken Waters work with GIS and NWS warnings
  They have some historical GIS datasets of warnings too.
• Index to Degree-Day Data
• NASA MAP'06 program
  Has some GIS satellite data.

IEM GIS Projects

• GOES Satellite GIS Products
  Current and archived GIS products from NOAA's GOES satellites
• Open GIS Web Services
  A listing of OGC web services offered by the IEM
• Iowa Climate Summaries
  GIS ready data files of monthly and yearly climate summaries dating back to 1951.
• IEM Freeze
  Web mapping application to support winter weather nowcasting.
• IEM Radview
  Our effort to provide NEXRAD information in realtime to GIS systems.
• IEM Rainfall
  Gridded rainfall estimates in GIS formats dating back to 2002 for Iowa.
• IEM Iowa Road Conditions
  Current and archived Iowa road conditions.
• IEM Cow
  Unofficial NWS polygon warning verification.
• NEXRAD Composites on the IEM
  Information about the NEXRAD composites that the IEM generates.

GIS Shapefiles:

• 1970-2000 Iowa Climate
  1970-2000 average annual precipitation, average temperature as calculated from the IEM databases.
• Past 24 hours of Storm Reports
  A shapefile of Local Storm Reports (LSRs) valid for the past 24 hours. The file is updated every 5 minutes.
• Archived Local Storm Reports
  Generate a shapefile of LSRs for a period of your choice dating back to 2003!
• Current NWS Warnings
  A shapefile of active county based and polygon based weather warnings. This file is updated every 5 minutes.
• Archived NWS Warnings
  Generate a shapefile of weather warnings for a time period of your choice!
• Current NEXRAD Storm Attributes
  Point shapefile generated every minute containing a summary of NEXRAD storm attributes.
• NWS COOP Observations
  Today's climate reports
• Browse GIS data stored on the IEM website.