NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Displaying pdf

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Displaying

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This presentation describes work done by the Applied Meteorology Unit (AMU) to add composite soundings to the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS). This allows National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters to compare the current atmospheric state with climatology. In a previous task, the AMU created composite soundings for four rawinsonde observation stations in Florida, for each of eight flow regimes. The composite soundings were delivered to the NWS Melbourne (MLB) office for display using the NSHARP software program. NWS MLB requested that the AMU make the composite soundings available for display in AWIPS. The AMU first created a procedure to customize AWIPS so composite soundings could be displayed. A unique four-character identifier was created for each of the 32 composite soundings. The AMIU wrote a Tool Command Language/Tool Kit (TclITk) software program to convert the composite soundings from NSHARP to Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) format. The NetCDF files were then displayable by AWIPS

• Creator/s: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS
• Date: 10/11/2008
• Year: 2008
• Book Topics/Themes: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), METEOROLOGY, WEATHER FORECASTING, CLIMATOLOGY, RAWINSONDES, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, COMMAND LANGUAGES, Barrett, Joe H., III, Volkmer, Matthew R., Blottman, Peter F., Sharp, David W

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