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Oklahoma Weather Laboratory (OWL)
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The Oklahoma Weather Laboratory (OWL) weather forecasting and data page (http://hoot.metr.ou.edu) is a student created page that focuses on the weather in the Southern Great Plains. The images are created using data from Unidata's IDD/LDM data service and Unidata's visualization application GEMPAK. This process is automated using C-Shell and Perl scripts. The entire product line (including surface, upper-air, radar, satellite and model data) is run on a simple Linux desktop machine.
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OWL Data Resources
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The Oklahoma Weather Lab offers multiple data resources. These include model forcasts, radar data, satellite data, and upper air data. The forecast and numerical model maps have been created specifically for this website using GEMPAK.
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For More information About OWL
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The Oklahoma Weather Lab (OWL) is a University funded, student-run forecast service. OWL provides daily forecasts for all of Oklahoma on the internet at no cost to users.
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The purpose of OWL is primarily to provide forecasting experience for the undergrads, freshmen especially. Until OWL was formed, the Local Forcasting Contest (LFC) and the National Forcasting Contest (NFC) were the only ways to obtain forecasting experience. This gives all the students in the OU School of Meteorology the chance to socialize with and learn from one another.
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For more information about the Oklahoma Weather Lab please visit the OWL web site at: http://hoot.metr.ou.edu/.
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Unidata has selected to feature the Oklahoma Weather Lab (OWL) on the Unidata Community Member Site Highlight web site. Please direct questions and comments about OWL to the Oklahoma Weather Lab. Please direct questions and comments about the Community Member Site Highlight to Unidata.
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Unidata Tools Used by OWL
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GEMPAK
The GEneral Meteorology PAcKage (GEMPAK) is an analysis, display, and product generation package for meteorological data. more >
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LDM
The Unidata Local Data Manager (LDM) is designed for event-driven data distribution, and is currently used in the Unidata IDD project. more >
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IDD
The Unidata Internet Data Distribution (IDD) delivers geoscience data in near real-time to over 175 domains worldwide. more >
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• support@unidata.ucar.edu
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