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Display of meteorological data Used to be done by hand
Display of meteorological data Now we have computers! DIFAX charts – allowed satellite and telephone transmission h>p://weather.noaa.gov/fax/nwsfax.html GEMPAK – developed at NASA GSFC in the 1980’s Adopted by NaQonal Weather Service in 1990’s NWS ModernizaQon, became NAWIPS UNIX-‐based scripQng language MCIDAS – Developed by Wisconsin/SSEC WXP – Developed by Purdue/EAS, sold to Unisys Unidata (part of UCAR/NCAR) developed the InteracQve Data Viewer as a replacement for GEMPAK JAVA-‐based NAWIPS-‐II is on the way in Winter 2011-‐12, which will be the next modernizaQon step for the NWS UNIX-‐based Graphical User Interface
How do computers contour data? h>p://www.unidata.ucar.edu/so^ware/gempak/tutorial/barnes.html Barnes objecQve analysis is commonly used for meteorological fields.