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Charlie started the topic Visualizing Weather Data in the forum Projects 7 years, 9 months ago
One idea I have for a project is to code some weather model visualization scripts using some sort of programming language – namely model charts for the site using some sort of weather visualization. Right now, I am leaning towards NCL, GrADS, Python, or some combination of the three to do the programming.
I’m sure a lot of us are familiar with the great model charts put out by WeatherBell, Pivotal Weather, Tropical Tidbits, and many other sites. I’d like to create something like that but keep the code open-source so anybody can improve the charts.
We have a GitHub, and it currently has one repository for model charts. I don’t have any code in it so far, but I hope to get some prmitive stuff up in the next month or so.
I have no experience with NCL or GrADS and very limited experience with Python, so my charts at the beginning likely won’t be too impressive, but I’m hoping they can get prettier as I become more experienced.
Links:
WeatherTogether’s GitHub profile: https://github.com/WeatherTogether
Getting started on GitHub: https://guides.github.com/activities/hello-world/
NCL info: http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/overview.shtml
GrADS info: http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/
Using Python for meteorology:
https://drclimate.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/getting-started-with-python/Model data:
http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/MatPlotLib Basemap examples:
http://matplotlib.org/basemap/users/examples.html
