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.
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.
Welcome back to AWIPS Tips! This week we are putting a spotlight on Learn AWIPS CAVE, which has moved to Unidata's new eLearning hub, Unidata eLearning. When you create an account with Unidata eLearning, your progress through Learn AWIPS CAVE is saved to your account so you can easily pick up where you left off. Upon completion of all lessons, you will also be awarded a badge on your profile.
To start the course, first go to the Unidata eLearning home page and create a new account. Once your account is created, you will be able to self enroll in Learn AWIPS CAVE, take the questionnaire, and begin learning!
