I have heavily acknowledged their work in tweets, on fb, on github, and in the about page. I have also thanked them directly. Also happy to note that most articles about the site also acknowledge the influence from hint.fm.
With their tools for meteorologists you can layer up all the data layers from the GRIB, radar, observations, pollen etc. as well as the forecast data to 'see' and explore the weather in quite astounding ways. Think of what you have here but in lots more resolution with untold extra layers of data - it is a fun way to understand the world that we should all be seeing and doing by now instead of just getting a screenful of dumb icons.
It seems that the likes of WSI are quite happy to serve the market for dumb icons rather than make their deluxe weather tools available to all on an app. Imagine if everyone could be an amateur forecaster and submit useful observation data from their phone to get fed back into the 'model'.
The meteorologists are keeping the best tools from us thinking we would not be interested, your site encourages me to think otherwise.
The NCEP data provides only 1ยบ resolution, so bilinear interpolation is used to fill in the gaps. How much interpolation is needed depends on the zoom level and the projection. On top of that, the distortion caused by the projection must be applied to the interpolated wind field. All of these heavy calculations are done up front so the animation can be as fast as possible. So each time the orientation of the globe changes, we have to redo the calculations.
Theodores|12 years ago
http://www.wsi.com/products-media.htm
With their tools for meteorologists you can layer up all the data layers from the GRIB, radar, observations, pollen etc. as well as the forecast data to 'see' and explore the weather in quite astounding ways. Think of what you have here but in lots more resolution with untold extra layers of data - it is a fun way to understand the world that we should all be seeing and doing by now instead of just getting a screenful of dumb icons.
It seems that the likes of WSI are quite happy to serve the market for dumb icons rather than make their deluxe weather tools available to all on an app. Imagine if everyone could be an amateur forecaster and submit useful observation data from their phone to get fed back into the 'model'.
The meteorologists are keeping the best tools from us thinking we would not be interested, your site encourages me to think otherwise.
dchichkov|12 years ago
How difficult it is to set this up for a custom local site that produces surface wind forecasts in GRIB2? Would it work for a small grid like this http://www.norcalsoaring.org/BLIP/BYRON/index.html ?
seanalltogether|12 years ago
cambecc|12 years ago