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

[James T. Potemra]

You want to get/plot a variable along an arbitrary coastline?  This is 
not going to be straightforward; the output is on a regular lat/lon grid.

Jim

On 4/13/12 9:18 PM, kent balas wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>>     <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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