Re: [idvusers] Plotting Surface Wind Chill & Heat Index Values

  • To: Yuan Ho <yuanho@xxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: [idvusers] Plotting Surface Wind Chill & Heat Index Values
  • From: Alan Bol <alanbol@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 11:20:10 -0700
Hi Yuan,
Will this be available for grids, too?
alan

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Yuan Ho <yuanho@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Brendon,
>
> I just added the three new parameters to the list. If you download the
> nightly release tomorrow, you will be able to display relative humidity,
> wind chill and heat index in the METAR dataset with some minor changes in
> the layout model.
>
> I did some tests to compare the result with online calculator, but
> obviously not enough. Please report to us if you see any bug in the result.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yuan
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 7:11 AM, Brendon Hoch <bhoch@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > IDV works great if you want to plot real time surface temperatures or
> > dewpoint temperature point values from METAR data.  However, there does
> not
> > seem to be a straightforward way to plot heat index or wind chill. Has
> > anyone else figured out how to do this?  Is this something that needs to
> > get put in to IDV by Unidata developers?
> >
> > PS: Gempak can do this easily just by changing SFPARM from TMPF to WCHT
> or
> > HEAT
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brendon
> > --
> > Brendon Hoch, M.S.
> > MSC 48, Boyd Science Center 319
> > Plymouth State University
> > Plymouth, NH 03264
> > (603)535-2818 Fax: (603)535-2723
> >
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