Water Resources Data System & State Climate Office

Wyoming Water and Climate Explorer

All users: Some pop-up blockers may affect certain functions of this application (windows opened when identifying features, etc). It is advised that you either disable pop-up blockers or you more selectively set an exception to allow pop-ups from www.wrds.uwyo.edu (this is the recommended option).

Mobile users: While every attempt has been made to make this application mobile-friendly, it is not practical to spend a lot of development time to make sure that ALL devices are accommodated. At a certain size, it just does not make sense to be viewing a mapping application on a small screen and expect full functionality. Your Nokia 8110 at 240x360 resolution will not provide a decent viewing experience!

However, we have tried to make this as useable as possible to as large a constituency as possible and, if the largest resolution of your screen is at least 640 pixels, you will be able to experience all of the functionality, though a very few features might require some horizontal scrolling. From our user-base over the last year, it was determined that developing for a minimum of 640 pixels on the longest edge would accommodate 99% of our users.

It is recommended, though, that your largest resolution be 800 pixels or more and we suggest that you view the application in landscape mode and take advantage of full screen viewing (the button with the opposing arrows in the lower left of your screen).

The Explorer has been tested on mobile using Chrome, Edge, Opera, and Firefox and performs well. It also has been tested with the Samsung Internet Browser and, while the vast majority of the functionality is present, there are a few quirks affecting colors and the display of at least one or two layers.

ChangeLog

V2.3 - 15 Apr 2024

Features and Functionality

Additional layers:
• Daily Precipitation and Maximum, Mininum, and Average Temperature maps
• Updates to Extreme Temperatues and Snowfall
• US Geological Survey Administrative Regions
• One-Week change maps for precipitation percentiles
• One-Week change maps for snow water equivalents
• Hail Locations
• Natural Resources Conservation Service Offices and Regions
• US Bureau of Reclamation Office Areas
• US Department of the Interior Regions
• National Weather Service Regions
• US Geological Survey Climate Adaptation Science Centers
• Bureau of Land Management State, District, and Field Office and Jurisdictions
• US Army Corps of Engineers Civil Divisions
• US Fish and Wildlife Service regions

V2.2 - 13 Feb 2024

Features and Functionality
• Measure distances
• Query Snow Depth at location
• Query Snow Water Equivalent at location

Additional layers:
• Gridded Snow Water Equivalent, 1- and 2-Day changes
• Gridded Snow Water Equivalent, Departure from Median
• Gridded Snow Water Equivalent, Percent of Median
• Gridded Snow Water Equivalent, Median
• Gridded Snow Water Equivalent
• Short Term Composite Drought Index
• Long Term Composite Drought Index
• NRCS Basins in Wyoming
• Precipitable Water
• Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies
• Nino Regions
• Worldwide Atmospheric Pressure and Isobars
• Worldwide 2m Temperatures and Isotherms
• National Weather Service Warnings, Watches, and Advisories
• National Weather Service Day 1 Forecast: Fronts and High/Low Pressures

V2.1 - 12 Dec 2023

Upgrade base engine to ol-8.2.0

Additional layers:
• Energy Release Component
• Burning Index
• Climate Division Temperature and Precipitation
• NWS Point Forecast link for any spot on the map
• Yesterday’s Mesonet Precipitation
• SnoTel Station Snow Water Equivalent and Percent of Median updated hourly
• ESRI DeLorme map base

Short Instructional Videos
• Navigation
• Index of Layers
• Selecting Layers
• Transparency
• Legends
• Labels
• Identifying Features

Reset map to north feature if a user has changed the angle

Recoded all attribute windows to be functional on mobile

Interactive charts for Mesonet Parameters when selecting a station to include
• A dashboard
• Temperature
• Daily Precipitation
• Precipitation Summaries
• Snow Depth
• Frost Depth
• Wind History
• Wind Roses
• Solar Radiation
• Atmospheric Pressure
• Soil Moisture
• Soil Temperature
• Vapor Pressure
• Ability to get a QR Code link to an individual station’s mobile dashboard

V1.0 - 19 Oct 2023 - Public Release

Complete overhaul of Water and Climate Atlas

New interface

Expand number of layers available