New Weather Forecasting Page

[gobie28]

Hey All,

I have been working on a project with other students at the University of Oklahoma on a weather forecasting and data page. The site is located at hoot.metr.ou.edu . Our main focus is on the Southern Great Plains, which is good for chasing!!

All of the maps have been created using GEMPAK. Now, you might be thinking, can GEMPAK really make quality images? The answer is, Yes it can! Using a combination of C-Shell and Perl scripting, the maps are fully automated.

Our running theme is a weather forecasting page, for forecasters, by forecasters. All of the products that we create are things that we like to view when making forecasts. We are always looking for input for new weather maps that would be useful to have, but are rarely seen on many forecasting pages.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions and comments. We are not being paid to do any of this work, so updating and adding new products is done when time is available, so bear with us on that one.

Enjoy!

Regards,
Kevin Goebbert

[Matthew Hartman]

Smooth running page, Gobie... I like it...

A request though, if you don't mind... can you generate 700mb vorticity forecast charts for the NAM and GFS? For some or another, you can never find 700mb vorticity analyses anywhere. For it's practicality for identifying mid-level waves and energy, you'd think it would be easily accessible.

Also, do you plan on adding any other forecast models to the mix? Say, the GEM, WRF, or SREF?

Nice work... thanks for sending the link along.

[gobie28]

Matt,

Thanks. The Eta is really the NAM, but I like the name Eta better, so we still call it that, and I believe that I do the 700 mb vorticity. I agree about the 700 mb vorticity. We will be adding more as we get the computer space to run them. Currently we are using a simple unix desktop machine to run everything...to say the least we are already running it into the ground. The School of Meteorology will be moving into our new building this summer and we are scheduled to get a couple of "new", err I mean additional, machines. With more computing power we should be able to do more, which is the plan.

Regards,
Kevin

[mesoed]

I agree. Very nice page. I especially like the isentropic maps. Very clean and easy to read. Just wish your surface maps had a central plains sector. Northern and southern plains bisect Kansas City.