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

[James T. Potemra]

Kent:

I made a monthly mean climatology from the early WW3 output, based on 
1998-2007 output, if interested just let me know.

Jim

On 4/13/12 8:51 PM, kent balas wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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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