Link to top analog years and other observation tools
Posted by
AlligatorPointer on 10/21/2010, 10:57 am
http://moe.met.fsu.edu/~acevans/models/
On that page under the storm you are looking for select the menu item you want in the drop down box and then click the "Display" button.
Then you might be interested in the following additional action available:
http://moe.met.fsu.edu/~acevans/models/kml.html
Google Earth/Maps Tracks
To date, the model tracks presented here have all been static images with fixed display windows and no user interactivity. While there is a lot of utility in such images, particularly in terms of viewing or printing images quickly, the Internet is increasingly moving to an interactive experience for most users. One way in which this is occurring is through the utilization of the Keyhole Markup Language, or KML for short, as pioneered by Google. KML files are importable into many GIS-enabled programs, with Google Earth and the Google Maps utility being the two most common such programs, and allow for a large amount of data to be stored in a relatively short amount of space. Rather than images being created once and disseminated statically, Google Earth and Google Maps allow for images to be created and manipulated on the fly as the user desires.
During the course of the 2010 season, we will be testing routines to automatically create KML files replicating all of the currently available model track plots. It should be noted that we have no plans to replace any of the currently available products; rather, we seek to complement them with additional ways to access and view the data. The first set of KML files to be made available are the so-called 'Early' model track fields. These are the most commonly accessed and used fields on this and other model sites and thus have the widest appeal. Over the course of the season, we will gradually add KML files for the so-called 'late' and GFS Ensemble track data, potentially combining all of these fields into a single KML file toward the end of the season. As products are added, tested, and debugged, their availability may be intermittent, so please do be patient as we work to improve the data.
To access the KML files for each storm, look for the 'KML Tracks File' listing in each storm's drop-down menu. Click on that listing, then on Display. In your web browser, what will appear may look like unintelligible code -- similar to what would happen if you directly viewed this site's RSS file in your web browser. At this point, you'll want to ignore that text and instead copy the address of the KML file from the browser's address bar. At this point, you may go to Google Maps (http://maps.google.com) and paste this address into the search bar and hit enter. The tracks and other relevant information will appear almost instantaneously in your browser window. Similarly, you may open up a copy of Google Earth (http://earth.google.com), choose File->Open, then paste this address into the address bar and hit enter. |
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