[gradsusr] Average wind and swell values NOAA wavewatch III full dataset.

[Jeff Lake]

How big of a hard drive do you have on your server ...
GRIB2 files 2x daily since 1999 .. OUCH

-Jeff Lake
MichiganWxSystem.com
WeatherMichigan.net
TheWeatherCenter.net
GRLevelXStuff.com


On 4/14/2012 2:00 AM, kent balas wrote:
> Hi Gradusers,
>
> I'm new to Grads and am not a computer scientist or Meteorologist (a 
> lowly Geologist) so pardon my ignorance.  I'd like to use the NOAA 
> wavewatch III dataset (ftp://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/history/waves/) 
> in *.grb2 format and grads to get average wind and swell amplitude and 
> direction for any part of the globe.  I'm fairly sure this is possible 
> as the wavewatch III product viewer 
> (http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/viewer.shtml?) does it over the past 
> 180 hours.  I'd like to get the average values over the full dataset 
> (1999 - present) and produce an animation of this if possible.  Can 
> someone help me with where to start?  I'm aware I'll probably need 
> g2ctl, however my programming knowledge is limited to some basic 
> python so I'm having trouble with getting started.  Apologies for the 
> basic question.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Kent Balas
>
>
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