Project idea: Mobile weather data acquisition in context of severe weather events - visualizing with GrADS

[pat behling]

As a start, look at http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/  under the PAW
(PDA Animated Weather).  pb
Pat Behling
Emeritus
Center for Climatic Research
1225 W. Dayton St.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706
pbehling at wisc.edu
http://ccr.aos.wisc.edu

On Mar 21, 2008, at 8:32 AM, Stefan Gofferje wrote:

> Hei,
>
> I am for quite a while working on a concept for a standardized mobile
> weather data acquisition system consisting of multiple sensors (baro,
> temp, windspeed, winddir, ...). The data from the sensors is to be
> logged togehter with position, speed and direction information from a
> high precision, high data rate GPS system. For the data, I thought
> about
> recording intervals of 0.5 to 1 seconds and an XML-file format.
>
> Part of this concept - for analysis - would probably also be the
> visualizing of the data - for which GrADS would be pretty nice.
> However, the question is, what would make more sense, converting
> the XML
> to gridded or to station data? Gridded data would be nice as easy
> comparism e.g. with model data would be possible but as the datasource
> finally is a moving station (even if you have multiple and combine the
> data), a big part of the grid would be empty. Regarding the station
> data, I do not even know if it was possible to have a "moving"
> station.
>
> Any comments, opinions, ideas?
>
> Tervehdys Suomesta,
> Stefan Gofferje
>
> --
> Since light travels faster than sound, is that why some people appear
> bright until you hear them speak?

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