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javascript lat/lon conversion
javascript beautifier
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javascript Metar decoder
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Google Earth Planimeter

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Note:

Most of these apps have been combined on a weather web page found here:

UK Rasp 

to discuss these topics, please go to the forum here:

http://www.drjack.info/cgi-bin/rasp-forum.cgi

Contents:

1.  UK Rasp Viewer

2. UK Wind Tool - updated

3. UK Blipspot - updated

4. UK RASP track average

5. UK Rasp 4km grid file for google earth

6. Wx Station Data GUI

1.  UK Rasp Viewer Customizations  add your own geo-referenced data to a UK Rasp Viewer (for image sizes 600, 800, 1000px and higher.  needs ms excel to generate plot data). 
sample data sources:  bga turning points, streetmap.co.uk, esri shp files, google earth etc
            info       sample: ESRI data plot (uk coastline)
  get individual lat/lons from webmap here

              A Rasp viewer is included in package ( pls don't mix files from different packages ).   Slightly updated files may have same version number but different release date.

UPDATE:   4Jan10 - fixed rain in right panel

includes 12km grid (latest data image comparison) + 1Hr Rain Accumulation (FF only)

  UKRaspviewer_2_11b_12k2day.zip

description of forecast grids here
                            
  excel spreadsheet does the work

  Using Google Earth as data source:

( adapted from walter zorn's javascript to add div elements to page)
lat/lon conversion

2. UK Wind Tool  -  Rasp Sfc wind forecasts.   

(Firefox / Chrome browsers only - use at your own risk)

info on blipspot sfc winds

download zipped html file      latest version 31Mar10 

works by comparing blipspot server data against user-input ridge parameters 

user input in source code:   LAT,LON,ID,L.Wind,R.Wind,SpeedMin,[SpeedMax - optional]
eg:  '54.698,-2.58337,SKF,240,300,15,20',

output:

3. UK Blipspot/Skewt

Makes a reusable link to current Rasp blipspot and SkewT forecasts for a selected area

   
NEW   v4 - three day forecasts 2 3 Aug09 zipfile download





 

3a. google earth interface for drjack's UK skewT / blipspot popups - Note: DrJack's UK data is no longer updated so this app will need to be rebuilt to access a different server



kml file for above (77 metar stations) (104kb) (zipped) kmz version (compressed kml ~ 6kb)   ( zipped)   interfaces with drjack's cgi script as described here:   http://www.drjack.info/twiki/bin/view/RASPop/SkewtPopup

4.   UK  RASP track average - uses Rasp forecast model to predict task time via BGA TPs  - more information here

  web front end   w/2008 BGA Turning Points

polar calculator spreadsheet

 5. UK Rasp 4km grid .kmz file for google earth

  (38k+ gridpoints - takes a while to load in GE)

6. Wx Station Data GUI     Grabs and displays clientRaw data in a web page. (Firefox only if not running from a server). 

Uses Bindows gauges from http://www.bindows.net/free_gauges.

links updated 19Oct09

made from sample file located at:

http://www.casacota.cat/teranyina?num=1251459195

wx station list: http://www.weather-watch.com/links/Weather-Stations /

clientRaw format: http://www.meteocarmignano.it/clientraw_parser.php#

clientraw parser

screenshots from above stuff:

UK Lightweight RASP viewer     Rasp viewer - site inspector version FM5b


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