Is RAOB available for Europe ?
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 7:03 pm
Hi all !
I am from Romania, Europe and I am a weather enthusiast in my spare time.
I would like to know if the RAOB sounding decoder software is available for use outside the USA ?
I mean if I am able to retrieve sounding data from given sources and use them to create diagrams for my location, Bucharest.
As far as I have seen this software can be configured for different usage based on 5 configurations: Student, Forecaster, Researcher , Operational and Complete. I would like to put you some extra questions regarding this problem.
1. From the beginning I am not interested in the Researcher package as I am not a researcher meteorologist or in the Complete package because it costs a fortune. I would like to know which is the difference between a forecaster meteorologist and an operational one ?
2. Cross sections can be created only between two points where there are upper air data available ?
3. If yes, can you tell me for instance if I have to draw a cross section between two points let's say A and B. In which A station has regular upper air data available and B station has upper air data available once in a day from let's say 3 to 3 days; that means I am not able to create cross sections, isn't it ?
I hope that your answers to my questions that I have posted would help me in choosing the best configuration for my needs and my budget, when I will buy a licence. My interest is that of doing some studying of upper air situation for my level of meteorological knowledge and not doing academic studying or commercial usage, so I would like to do the best option for my budget.
Thank you for your time and response !
I am from Romania, Europe and I am a weather enthusiast in my spare time.
I would like to know if the RAOB sounding decoder software is available for use outside the USA ?
I mean if I am able to retrieve sounding data from given sources and use them to create diagrams for my location, Bucharest.
As far as I have seen this software can be configured for different usage based on 5 configurations: Student, Forecaster, Researcher , Operational and Complete. I would like to put you some extra questions regarding this problem.
1. From the beginning I am not interested in the Researcher package as I am not a researcher meteorologist or in the Complete package because it costs a fortune. I would like to know which is the difference between a forecaster meteorologist and an operational one ?
2. Cross sections can be created only between two points where there are upper air data available ?
3. If yes, can you tell me for instance if I have to draw a cross section between two points let's say A and B. In which A station has regular upper air data available and B station has upper air data available once in a day from let's say 3 to 3 days; that means I am not able to create cross sections, isn't it ?
I hope that your answers to my questions that I have posted would help me in choosing the best configuration for my needs and my budget, when I will buy a licence. My interest is that of doing some studying of upper air situation for my level of meteorological knowledge and not doing academic studying or commercial usage, so I would like to do the best option for my budget.
Thank you for your time and response !