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- Mon Dec 22, 2003 4:40 am
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Surface high temperature forecast from 850mb chart
- Replies: 3
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Well, the general method we used "back in the day" was: 1) Use the 12Z sounding. 2) Determine if there was going to be a frontal passage and/or air mass change. 3) Determine whether it was going to be clear or partly cloudy to overcast. 4) If clear was your forecast, take the 850 temp dry adiabatica...
- Fri Dec 19, 2003 11:57 pm
- Forum: Digital Atmosphere
- Topic: Shapefiles for DAWS
- Replies: 4
- Views: 14273
Are these files available for the whole world?? Short, ambiguous answer: Maybe. Read on... These shape - files are "maps " right ? Short answer, yes they are. Shapefiles are the most common vector format used in the realm of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). There are actually three files you'l...
- Fri Dec 19, 2003 5:06 pm
- Forum: Digital Atmosphere
- Topic: Shapefiles for DAWS
- Replies: 4
- Views: 14273
Added some new shapefiles today:
http://www.centralnebraskaweather.net/daws/shapefiles/
Regards,
Mike
http://www.centralnebraskaweather.net/daws/shapefiles/
Regards,
Mike
- Fri Dec 12, 2003 10:32 pm
- Forum: Digital Atmosphere
- Topic: Shapefiles for DAWS
- Replies: 4
- Views: 14273
Shapefiles for DAWS
I'm creating subsets of some of the AWIPS shapefiles for use in DAWS since some of them are rather large and each user may find they only want them for a particular region. The first set, NWS CWA's, are online at: http://www.centralnebraskaweather.net/daws/shapefiles/ I'm also open to any requests f...
- Fri Dec 12, 2003 5:54 pm
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Forecast discussion nomenclature question
- Replies: 2
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TROWAL stands for "trough of warm air aloft". There's pretty good web based presentations on trowals as well as isentropic analysis at: TROWAL Identification (Lindstrom, Bachmeier, Martin) http://www.cira.colostate.edu/ramm/visit/trowal.html Isentropic Analysis (Moore) http://meted.ucar.edu/isen_ana...
- Tue Dec 02, 2003 4:02 am
- Forum: Digital Atmosphere
- Topic: Where shall we go with scripting?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 18949
Actually, I think the PCGRIDDS command mode would be a good base to start with Tim, contingent on reversing it from right to left. For the most part I find the PCGRIDDS command pretty intuitive. For instance, being able to compute one hour field changes by using a TDIF command with the RUC fields wo...
- Sat Nov 29, 2003 4:40 am
- Forum: Digital Atmosphere
- Topic: Version 0.32a bugs, info, and much more
- Replies: 12
- Views: 41562
For the eta grids: http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/products/eta/ http://wwwt.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/etagrids/ For the GFS grids: http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/products/gfs/ For the ensembles: http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/products/ens/ For the RSAS grids: http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/produ...
- Wed Nov 26, 2003 5:02 pm
- Forum: Digital Atmosphere
- Topic: Version 0.32a bugs, info, and much more
- Replies: 12
- Views: 41562
- Wed Nov 26, 2003 12:26 am
- Forum: Digital Atmosphere
- Topic: Version 0.32a bugs, info, and much more
- Replies: 12
- Views: 41562
Here's one good site for GRIB data I use for PCGRIDDS:
ftp://ftpprd.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/
Regards,
Mike
ftp://ftpprd.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/
Regards,
Mike