MetPy Mondays #270 - Predicting the Path of the Chinese Balloon
06 February 2023
This week we use upper air observations to try to predict the path of the Chinese balloon which recently passed over the US. By using coordinate aware math and some observations from the local news we see how accurate our predictions can be with a few lines of Python!
MetPy Mondays #269 - Making a NCSS Point Request
30 January 2023
Spring 2023 SBN Ground Station Repointing Guide
30 January 2023
On January 24, 2023, NOAA released Service Change Notice 22-77, describing the change of relay satellite for all SBN services (NOAAPort and NWWS) from Intelsat’s Galaxy 28 to the newly launched Galaxy 31. For ground station operators, this move is non-trivial in that the location of Galaxy 28 is geostationary over 89°W, and Galaxy 31 is geostationary over 121°W.
The following guide is intended to help operators who are not familiar with repointing a satellite dish to provide the information to a professional satellite technician.
[Read More]MetPy Mondays #268 - Putting it all together - Part 2
23 January 2023
We calculate vorticity on a sphere and add it onto our declarative plot of GFS data in this week's MetPy Monday!
MetPy Mondays #267 - Putting it all together - Part 1
16 January 2023
This week we put together getting real time data with Siphon, declarative plotting, and more to start building a full analysis pipeline!
