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

[kent balas]

I'd be very interested Jim, thanks.

What I ultimately want to do is specify any coastline in the world and see
an averages of the various parameters contained within the NOAA dataset
(swell direction, amplitude, wind direction ect.).

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 5:12 PM, James T. Potemra <jimp at hawaii.edu> wrote:

>  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> 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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