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

[kent balas]

How much space do you think I'll need?

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Jeff Lake <admin at michiganwxsystem.com>wrote:

>  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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