Jump to content
  • Member Statistics

    17,502
    Total Members
    7,904
    Most Online
    Weathernoob335
    Newest Member
    Weathernoob335
    Joined

grib data and viewer


weatherbob234

Recommended Posts

  • 2 weeks later...

There are many grib viewers designed for use by sailors and other mariners.

 

they are simple to use, and often allow you to download a grib by dragging a box around the area you want, and then selecting the variables you want.

 

the only limitation is that they only support a few - maybe 10 - of the hundreds of variables in, for example, the GFS. these tend to be things of interest to sailors - mostly 10m wind, gust, MSLP, precip, 500mb, temp, cape, cloud cover, and maybe a few others.

 

what do you want to view?

 

Zygrib is a good free program

 

http://www.zygrib.org/

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 3 weeks later...

I second IDV. It's very powerful, but also very difficult to use. I mean it's easy to show the raw GRIB variables, but if you want to show derived variables (like wind shear) it's actually kind of hard to do. In fact, I just noticed that in version 5.0 the Layer Wind Shear formula doesn't work. I had to define my own formula using it's Jython scripting language. It's possible I was doing something wrong. Anyway, now if I could only figure out SRH, EHI, STP, SCP, and other severe parameters...

 

Any new rumors of the AWIPS II release? 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...