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Page 1: Displayofmeteorologicaldata(snesbitt/ATMS505/stuff/... · Displayofmeteorologicaldata(! Now!we!have!computers!!! DIFAXcharts!–allowed!satellite!and!telephone!transmission! h>p://weather.noaa.gov/fax/nwsfax.html!!

Display  of  meteorological  data    Used  to  be  done  by  hand  

Page 2: Displayofmeteorologicaldata(snesbitt/ATMS505/stuff/... · Displayofmeteorologicaldata(! Now!we!have!computers!!! DIFAXcharts!–allowed!satellite!and!telephone!transmission! h>p://weather.noaa.gov/fax/nwsfax.html!!

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            

Page 3: Displayofmeteorologicaldata(snesbitt/ATMS505/stuff/... · Displayofmeteorologicaldata(! Now!we!have!computers!!! DIFAXcharts!–allowed!satellite!and!telephone!transmission! h>p://weather.noaa.gov/fax/nwsfax.html!!

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.