Deck Chairs and Fiddles: zyGrib

"A viewer for GRIB 1 and 2 files.

The features include:

Available meteo infos (World and CH *):

Pressure at mean sea level *
Wind 10 m above surface *
Wind gust *
Temperature 2 m above surface *
Temperature min and max 2 m above surface *
Relative Humidity 2 m above surface *
Total precipitation (mm/h) *
Total Cloud Cover (%) *
Animated samples
Hurricane Isaac (2012-08-26)
Storm Xynthia (2010-02-28)
Hurricane Earl (2010-08-30)
Typhoon Man-Yi hits Japan
(2013-09-15)
Dew Point 2 m above surface *
0°C Isotherm altitude
Snow (Depth - Risk)
CAPE (convective available potential energy) and CIN (convective inhibition) *
Data in altitude (925, 850 *, 700 *, 500 *, 300, 200 hPa) : geopotential altitude, wind *, temperature *, theta-e, relative humidity *.
Display of atmospheric sounding forecast on thermodynamic diagrams SkewT-LogP.
Waves : height, direction, period, whitecap probability, for wind waves, swell, and for significant, maximum, primary, secondary waves.
Sea current (not provided by the zyGrib's data server)

Automatic Meteo data download
Specific GRIB files created by and for zyGrib;

from NOAA (GFS Model);
- Updates every 6 hours (depends on NOAA data availability);
- Forecast up to 10 days by 3 hours steps;
- Worldwild Cover (0.25°x0.25°).
Waves data from the FNMOC
- Global model: grid 1°x1°, forecast up to 7 days: the world's oceans.
- Local model: grid 0.2°x0.2°, forecast up to 3 days: Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, NE Atlantic Ocean around Europe, Baltic Sea,

Automatic Download from IAC (fleetcode) Data

Weather Data from NOAA;
Analysis and 24 hours Forecast, only for Europa and North Atlantic (pressure, isobar and fronts);
Daily four times update;
IAC (International Analysis Codem, fleetcode) files are very small and can be used with PSKmail (For any questions, please refer directly to PSKMail conceptors; I don't know anything about it).

Raw or compressed GRIB Data (gzip *.gz; bzip2 *.bz2) can be used

Bottom Worldmap Layer from GSHHS (Precision ≈ 100).

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