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this is gogo's rasp forum download area http://www.drjack.info/cgi-bin/rasp-forum.cgi email: gogomu2000@yahoo(dot)com
1. UK Rasp Viewer Customizations add your own geo-referenced data to a UK Rasp Viewer (for image sizes 600, 800, 1000px and higher. needs ms excel to generate plot data).
sample data sources: bga turning points, streetmap.co.uk, esri shp files, google earth etc
info sample: ESRI data plot (uk coastline)
get individual lat/lons from webmap here
A Rasp viewer is included in package (pls don't mix files from different packages). Slightly updated files may have same version number but different release date.
version UKRV2_11
new experimental version UKRV2_11b (23Jul08 - parameter popups ala PScorer - works only with Firefox for now)
description of forecast grids here
 excel spreadsheet does the work
Using Google Earth as data source:
(adapted from walter zorn's javascript to add div elements to page)
lat/lon conversion
2. google earth interface for drjack's UK skewT / blipspot popups - Note: DrJack's UK data is no longer updated so this app will need to be rebuilt to access a different server
kml file for above (77 metar stations) (104kb) (zipped) kmz version (compressed kml ~ 6kb) (zipped) interfaces with drjack's cgi script as described here: http://www.drjack.info/twiki/bin/view/RASPop/SkewtPopup
3. UK RASP track average - track average uses Rasp forecast models to predict task time - more information here Note: DrJack's UK data is no longer updated so this app will need to be rebuilt to access a different server web front end w/BGA Turning Points - uses drjack's data. (19Apr07) 1500GMT track average plotted against ladder archive, jun-dec 2006. (17Feb 07) (XLS file) (zipped xls file) --> includes links to bga ladder flights (txt file) (zipped txt file) with thermal multiplier= 1, 1.1, 1.2 & 2.0 source: www.bgaladder.co.uk & drjack rasp track average forecasts BGA 2007 uk turning points - google earth kmz file polar calculator spreadsheet
4. old UK RASP Viewers - these viewers make available forecast images compiled by pscorer and drjack
- UK Lightweight RASP viewer (only selected parameters/times) uk rasp viewer (zipped) (19APR07) - UK RASP Viewer - Site Inspector version (all params) ver. FM6 - (18Jun07) zipped version (contains curr+3, image blending for non-IE4+ , time/date shortcut keys) with image comparisons UK Noaa-RUC viewer (19Apr07)
5. UK Rasp vs Metar Excel spreadsheet comparing 4 RASP models (noaa, ruc,gb and sco) vs 77 UK Metar stations. Parameters compared: sfc temp - dew point - wind dir - wind speed.
Note: DrJack's UK data is no longer updated so this app will need to be rebuilt to access a different server
77 UK Metar Stations vs Rasp (12-1600Z data) from 9Apr - 18 Jun 07 (56 days)
sfc temp - dewpoint only 56 days)
location of UK Metar stations: google earth 'non oceanic' uk metar stns (as of 28 Mar07)
new 20Apr08: pscorer 6km vs 12 km grid data gatherer
screenshots from above stuff:
Rasp noaa-ruc-gb-sco metar comparisons
UK RASP track average viewer prototype  UK Lightweight RASP viewer  Rasp viewer - site inspector version FM5b
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