VIS-5D datasets of UW-NMS
Operational Forecasts
Note: You must use the freely available
VIS-5D program (version 4.1 or greater!)
to look at these files.
Here's how
you can get and install a copy
of the most recent
VIS-5D version!)
New!
VIS-5D is now a registered media subtype. This means that you can include
links to vis5d (.v5d) files in your WWW documents, and can configure your
WWW browser (lynx, mosaic, netscape, etc) to automatically start VIS-5D
when a .v5d file is downloaded.
Here's the information about how
to configure your WWW browser to recognize .v5d files and automatically
start vis5d when one is downloaded.
UW-NMS VIS-5D Datasets
Here's a key to the variables
included
on these VIS-5D files
VIS-5D data sets from the most recent 00 UTC model run
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Note: If you do not have vis5d installed as a viewer for .v5d files
(here's
how to do that) you must save these files to disk. Then if your browser
has not already uncompressed them for you, uncompress them using the unix
command
uncompress VIS5DFILE.Z . To view the file, run the command
vis5d VIS5DFILE where VIS5DFILE is the name that you saved it to.
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48 hour forecast on 60
km grid [about 100 Mb, 60-65 Mb compressed] (covers all of the U.S.,
25 frames, every three hours)
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48 hour forecast on 30
km grid [about 20 Mb, 10-15 Mb compressed] (covers Wisconsin, Lake
Michigan, Lake Superior, and surrounding areas, 25 frames, every three
hours)
VIS-5D data sets from the most recent 12 UTC model run
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48 hour forecast on 60
km grid [about 100 Mb, 60-65 Mb compressed] (covers all of the U.S.,
25 frames, every three hours)
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48 hour forecast on 30
km grid [about 20 Mb, 10-15 Mb compressed] (covers Wisconsin, Lake
Michigan, Lake Superior, and surrounding areas, 25 frames, every three
hours)
GIF images of various
model parameters
Acknowledgements:
We would like to thank the IBM Corporation for their generous grant
of the IBM RS/6000 Model 580 in support of this work.
Funding for this work is provided by a grant from COMET (Cooperative
Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training).
This page is maintained by:
Holly Hassenzahl
hcderose@wisc.edu
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