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

[kent balas]

I'm currently downloading everything that sits in this directory
ftp://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/history/waves/

Its 96GB i think.

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 4:33 PM, kent balas <kentbalas at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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