Alaska Storm Track Website Feedback

Thank you for providing your feedback on the NOAA Alaska Storm Track Website.

We appreciate your responses to the following questions. This will help us make the Storm Track website more useful. If you would prefer to provide only more general feedback, you can scroll down and type your comments under question #19.

We ask you to provide your name and contact information at the bottom of the form so that we can follow-up with you if we have questions about your suggestions and to let you know when and how the storm track website has been revised.

Are text explanations and image labels understandable? Do they clearly describe information?

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Should a text file be included to provide in-depth details?

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Is the web site easy to navigate? If not, why not?

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Should data be provided in addition to maps and graphics?

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Should the 30 and 90 day images be summarized in any way? For example, would it be useful to have written text, tables, or single numerical values summarizing storminess in a specific region?

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Is the information about precipitation, wind, wave heights, and sea ice useful?

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Currently, the maps of these fields show totals or averages over the time period. Should they show this information differently?

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If so, in what ways? For example, should the maximum value or a range of values during the time period be displayed instead?

Should the storm tracks include date information along each track?

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Which of the three general themes (monitoring, forecasts/outlooks, and assessment) are most interesting and useful to you?

Monitoring Forecasts Assessment

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What time scales for storminess related information are most important to you and the people you work with?

Weekly Monthly Seasonal Annual Decadal

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Related to your interests, what are the best ways to display future storminess information from weather models? For example, would individual storm tracks and related impacts (precipitation, wind, waves) be more useful than averages of storms and impacts over a time period? (In other words, monitoring of individual extreme events versus storminess activity over a period.)

Please list three suggestions for improving the appearance and usefulness of the site.

Would you find the development of a storminess index useful? A combined measure of storm frequency, duration, intensity, and impacts (i.e., amount of precipitation and strength of wind and waves, etc.).

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Would it be useful to you to know whether a particular storm is stronger or weaker than average according to a storminess index as described above?

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Would you benefit from the development of a monthly storminess outlook (a qualitative and/or quantitative assessment for the prospects of above, near, or below normal storminess)?

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Would you benefit from the development of a seasonal storminess outlook (a qualitative and/or quantitative assessment for the prospects of above, near, or below normal storminess)?

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Would you find a monthly storminess review useful? The review would provide a description of recent storm patterns, how it compares to typical conditions and any socio-economic impacts (damage, etc.).

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For questions and information, feel free to contact:

Sarah Trainor
University of Alaska
P.O. Box 755910; 306 Tanana Drive
Fairbanks, AK 99775-5910

phone: (907) 474-7878;
email: accap@uaf.edu;
fax: (907) 474-7979

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