Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer > Dashboard > Choosing Data Sources
3.4.7 Choose Point Observation Data
The Point chooser allows you to choose
global hourly surface weather station observations (METAR), and Synoptic data
from remote ADDE servers.
Image 1: Point Data Chooser
- Specify an ADDE server and data type and press connect.
This chooser works similarly to the Image chooser described above.
Once connected to a server the list of available
times will be shown.
- Choose a relative set of times steps (e.g., Last 5 times).
When choosing relative times you can set the time increment to use, e.g.,
Using "3 most recent" times with a "3"hour time
increment would result in the most recent time, one 3 from 3 hours
ago and one from 6 hours ago.
- Or, choose a set of absolute times (e.g., 12Z, 1Z); When choosing
absolute times for the first time the IDV needs to query the ADDE server
for the times. This may take some time.
Times can be selected in the list or the time line
(use control/click or shift/click in the list to select multiple times).
See the Timeline section for details on its use.
- When done, load the selected point data with the button.
Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer > Dashboard > Choosing Data Sources