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

  • To: Alan Bol <alanbol@xxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: [idvusers] Plotting Surface Wind Chill & Heat Index Values
  • From: Yuan Ho <yuanho@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 11:29:55 -0700
Hi Alan,

Those changes only for the MEATR point data. It should be a lot easy to add
the formula for
gridded dataset. No need to change the source code. If anyone already did
it and like to contribute
your formula, I can add it to the distribution.


Thanks,

Yuan

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 11:20 AM, Alan Bol <alanbol@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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