Don -
Don Murray wrote:
Hi HP-
HansPeter Roesli wrote:
Allow me to raise 2 points in this context.
1. I got just a bit confused about your "The sampling is a weighted
average by default, not the nearest neighbor.". Does this mean that
the sampling follows the setting in Preferences (that has nearest
neighbour as default) or is the sampling for the pseudo-soundings a
special case?
My bad, it's neither. Looking at the code, it always uses nearest
neighbor. I think it should use the preference which I was assuming to
be weighted average as the default.
Just do it 8-) .
2. May I add that sounding works for either dew point *or* relative
humidity, but *not* for specific humidity.
Send me the formula for computing dewpoint from specific humidity and
temperature. ;-)
Long standing request from my side. I am too lazy to figure it out :'( .
HP
Don
Don Murray wrote:
Kevin-
Havener Kevin Civ 14WS/WXED wrote:
Yes, I think the ability to specify a single(/series of) point(s)
would
be a nice feature to have. I have frequent reason to probe
archived GFS
and ECMWF global analysis fields somewhat randomly, comparing derived
soundings from them to real soundings, satellite soundings, and other
data.
I'll spend some time with Tom and Brendon's advice and see if I can't
make it work for the current project.
At this point, the best solution is to subset the grid over the
region you want to display soundings.
The grid sounding probe was designed to be an interactive probe
where you could drag the probe around easily to get soundings at
arbitrary points. To do this, it needs to read in all the levels for
t, dewpoint (or fields to create it), u and v and perform any
calculations to derive a field like dewpoint, then sample the grid
quickly to make the display. The sampling is a weighted average by
default, not the nearest neighbor.
If we took the approach of specific samplings, we would probably not
be able to do a weighted average approach easily. It would require
some changes to the way we handle the interaction with the
underlying data and the netCDF-Java library which does the
reading. We can look into what it would take to do this at some
point.
Don
-----Original Message-----
From: Brendon Hoch [mailto:bhoch@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday,
November 02, 2009 8:25 AM
To: Tom Whittaker
Cc: Havener Kevin Civ 14WS/WXED; idvusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [idvusers] Soundings from global grib file
> I cannot answer the question of how to specify the pointer
location,
> in the interactive mode -- other than dragging it to a point. You
> might look at displaying the special "Location" marker and sharing
> it's location with the sounding probe......or something along those
> lines. Hopefully someone else has the answer...
>
Once you have the probe, you can just enter in values for Lat/Lon
in the
display which appears in the display tab in the dashboard, and the
probe
will move to the point of your choosing.
Feature request/idea: The field selector Tom referenced allows for
a subset region of points, but does not allow for a single data
point or a
series/list of coordinates. This would probably resolve Kevin's
issue and make it easier if one had many specific points to probe.
Cheers,
Brendon
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