I'd be very interested Jim, thanks.� <br><br>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.).<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 5:12 PM, James T. Potemra <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jimp@hawaii.edu">jimp@hawaii.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Kent:<br>
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I made a monthly mean climatology from the early WW3 output, based
on 1998-2007 output, if interested just let me know.<br>
<br>
Jim<div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 4/13/12 8:51 PM, kent balas wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">I'm currently downloading everything that sits in this
directory <a href="ftp://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/history/waves/" target="_blank">ftp://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/history/waves/</a><br>
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Its 96GB i think.<br>
<br>
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On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 4:33 PM, kent balas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kentbalas@gmail.com" target="_blank">kentbalas@gmail.com</a>></span>
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How much space do you think I'll need?
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 4:23 PM,
Jeff Lake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:admin@michiganwxsystem.com" target="_blank">admin@michiganwxsystem.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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hard drive do you have on your server ...<br>
GRIB2 files 2x daily since 1999 .. OUCH<br>
<pre cols="72">-Jeff Lake
MichiganWxSystem.com
WeatherMichigan.net
TheWeatherCenter.net
GRLevelXStuff.com</pre>
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<div>Hi Gradusers,<br>
<br>
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 (<a href="ftp://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/history/waves/" target="_blank">ftp://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/history/waves/</a>)
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 (<a href="http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/viewer.shtml" target="_blank">http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/viewer.shtml</a>?)
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.<br>
<br>
Kind Regards,<br>
<br>
Kent Balas<br>
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