# References

These sources provide the preferred authority for weather, geospatial, platform, API, and standards behavior. Verify time-sensitive platform details against the current source before implementation.

## NOAA and weather intelligence

### R1\. NOAA Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor System

[NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory MRMS](https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/mrms/) provides the primary scientific and operational overview.

### R2\. NOAA MRMS open data

[NOAA MRMS in the Registry of Open Data on AWS](https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-mrms-pds/) documents public bucket access, distribution cadence, notification details, and NOAA Open Data Dissemination terms.

### R3\. Operational MRMS GRIB2 product tables

[Operational MRMS GRIB2 tables](https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/mrms/operational/tables.php) provide the product catalog authority for MESH, POSH, SHI, accumulated products, units, cadence, and missing values.

### R4\. NOAA hail detection education

[NSSL Severe Weather 101: Hail detection](https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/hail/detection/) provides plain-language MESH and hail-detection context.

### R5\. NEXRAD open data

[NEXRAD in the Registry of Open Data on AWS](https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-nexrad/) documents current public Level II and Level III access.

### R6\. National Weather Service API

[NWS API documentation](https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api) defines general NWS API integration behavior.

### R7\. National Weather Service alerts

[NWS Alerts Web Service](https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-alerts) documents watches, warnings, advisories, Common Alerting Protocol data, JSON-LD, redistribution, and polling guidance.

### R8\. Storm Prediction Center

[NOAA Storm Prediction Center](https://www.spc.noaa.gov/) provides convective outlooks, watches, mesoscale discussions, and preliminary severe-weather reports.

### R9\. SPC convective outlooks

[SPC Convective Outlooks](https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/) provides forecast products for severe convective weather.

### R10\. SPC preliminary storm reports

[SPC Preliminary Storm Reports](https://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/today.html) provides preliminary ground-report context.

### R11\. NOAA Storm Events Database

[NCEI Storm Events Database](https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/) provides historical severe-weather reconciliation and the records used for NOAA Storm Data.

### R12\. NOAA Storm Events bulk download

[Storm Events bulk data](https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ftp.jsp) supports historical fixtures, analytics, and backtesting.

## Geography

### R13\. United States Census TIGER/Line

[TIGER/Line Shapefiles](https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.html) provide geographic entities and identifiers. The files do not contain demographic data by themselves.

### R14\. TIGER/Line technical documentation

[TIGER/Line technical documentation](https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/technical-documentation/complete-technical-documentation/tiger-geo-line.html) defines file behavior and geographic concepts.

## Cloudflare platform

### R15\. Cloudflare Workers

[Cloudflare Workers](/workers/) is the primary execution-platform reference.

### R16\. Cloudflare D1

[Cloudflare D1](/d1/) documents relational database behavior, limits, migrations, and runtime bindings.

### R17\. Cloudflare R2

[Cloudflare R2](/r2/) documents object storage for weather objects, reports, evidence, photos, and exports.

### R18\. Cloudflare Durable Objects

[Cloudflare Durable Objects](/durable-objects/) documents globally addressable stateful compute with attached strongly consistent storage.

### R19\. Cloudflare Queues

[Cloudflare Queues](/queues/) documents asynchronous processing and delivery semantics. StormTrust consumers require idempotent processing.

### R20\. Cloudflare Workflows

[Cloudflare Workflows](/workflows/) documents durable multistep orchestration.

### R21\. Cloudflare Workers AI

[Cloudflare Workers AI](/workers-ai/) documents approved serverless inference workloads.

### R22\. Cloudflare Workers storage selection

[Workers storage options](/workers/platform/storage-options/) compares D1, R2, KV, Durable Objects, Queues, and other platform primitives.

### R23\. Wrangler

[Wrangler](/workers/wrangler/) is the canonical application deployment and Cloudflare developer-tooling reference.

### R24\. Cloudflare infrastructure as code

[Cloudflare infrastructure as code](/workers/platform/infrastructure-as-code/) supports the StormTrust Terraform and Wrangler ownership model.

## API and interoperability standards

### R25\. OpenAPI Specification

[OpenAPI Specification](https://spec.openapis.org/oas/) provides a language-agnostic description format for HTTP APIs. StormTrust should pin the supported minor version in its API contract.

### R26\. OpenAPI 3.1.1

[OpenAPI 3.1.1](https://spec.openapis.org/oas/v3.1.1.html) provides one candidate minor-version authority.

### R27\. JSON Schema

[JSON Schema](https://json-schema.org/) supports schema-driven configuration and payload validation.

### R28\. GeoJSON

[RFC 7946: The GeoJSON Format](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7946) defines interoperable API geometry where GeoJSON is appropriate.

### R29\. Common Alerting Protocol

[OASIS CAP 1.2](https://docs.oasis-open.org/emergency/cap/v1.2/CAP-v1.2.html) defines the alert format relevant to NWS ingestion.

## Scientific references

### R30\. Enhanced hail detection algorithm

Witt, A., Eilts, M. D., Stumpf, G. J., Johnson, J. T., Mitchell, E. D. W., and Thomas, K. W. authored _An Enhanced Hail Detection Algorithm for the WSR-88D_in _Weather and Forecasting_ (1998). It provides foundational scientific context for MESH.

### R31\. MRMS severe-weather and aviation products

Smith, T. M., and collaborators authored _Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor Severe Weather and Aviation Products: Initial Operating Capabilities_. The NOAA MRMS open-data registry includes it in the MRMS publication set.

## StormTrust internal references

### S1\. StormTrust MVP product specification

The internal product specification defines the responsive release model, weather core, product requirements, sources, security, infrastructure, and implementation priorities.

### S2\. StormTrust HailTrace competitive research

The HailTrace research covers public presence, media, search, reports, events, partnerships, acquisition, retention, and competitive requirements.

### S3\. StormTrust Hail Recon competitive research

The Hail Recon research covers pricing, programmatic search, monitoring, canvassing, reports, widgets, APIs, and mobile positioning.

### S4\. Pioneer framework documentation

Pioneer documentation remains authoritative for framework-level application structure, routing, validation, models, queues, scheduling, providers, compiler behavior, and APIs. StormTrust documentation links to Pioneer rather than duplicating those subjects.