Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! This week we are going to learn how to draw convective warnings in WarnGen. Watch the short video in this entry on how to use WarnGen in AWIPS.
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! This week we are looking into creating an objective analysis plot in CAVE by loading both model data and current observations. The display/time options are a bit tricky to set up initially, but once you've created the plot, you can save it as a display to easily reload it.
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! Today we're going to talk about some more functionality with python-awips! If you aren't familiar with python-awips, please check out some of our previous blog posts explaining some of the existing functionality. In this edition we are looking at the Watch Warning and Advisory Plotting Jupyter notebook available in the python-awips Data Plotting Examples collection.
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! With this entry, we're going to touch on the topic of adding a new grib product into AWIPS. We'll be discussing updates that need to be made for both EDEX and CAVE in order to display your new data properly. In order to do this you need to be running your own EDEX server. Most of the recommendations and tips in this blog can be found in our documentation about ingesting new grid data.
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! This week we're diving into another way to display data in CAVE. We've gone over some of the more standard ways – through menu items, the volume browser, and the product browser. Today we'll discuss another option which is available to users: importing a shapefile. For those who aren't familiar, GIS stands for Geographic Information Systems, and is the discipline of creating, managing, and analyzing geographically referenced data. These data can represent both vector and raster features on a globe, and can be stored in a number of different file types. In CAVE, there is the option to import shapefiles, which contain points, lines, or polygons with associated attributes for each record.
Update: We are looking into a potential fix to allow Python2 to run on MacOS 12.3
We have recently learned of a new restriction when upgrading MacOS to Monterey version 12.3 that negatively impacts CAVE. The latest version of MacOS (and those going forward, we assume) no longer supports Python2. At this time, our Mac version of CAVE still uses Python2.7. Because of this, when running CAVE on the latest version of Monterey, a number of visualization features will no longer work (including Wind Vectors).
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! This week we're back with another post about the capabilities of python-awips. If you haven't seen any of our previous entries about python-awips, please take a glance through them to familiarize yourself with the python package. This week we are focusing on model (grid) data, and how to colorize and plot it using the python package Cartopy. Follow along using the Colorized Grid Data notebook.
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! Today we are going to explore NUCAPS soundings and how to visualize, analyze, and edit them. NUCAPS (NOAA Unique Combined Atmospheric Processing System) temperature and dewpoint vertical profiles are available from polar orbiting satellites under the Upper Air > NUCAPS Soundings menu option in CAVE. These soundings are based off of satellite observations and are not dependent on any model.
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! It has been a while since we have talked about the backend portion of AWIPS – EDEX. For a brief introduction, please check out this previous entry of AWIPS Tips about EDEX. Today we are going to cover the important topic of data retention. Being mindful about data retention is important, because data can take up a significant amount of space on your server. Sometimes, that is what is expected and desired – in the case of having a long archive (longer than 5 days perhaps). But, if we're unprepared for the amount of data that will be kept, it can end up causing all kinds of problems that can be hard to track down, and the root of the cause is your machine is running out of disk space.
