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Most of these apps require FireFox to run locally but some have been adapted to run on any browser on the server at Paul Scorer's UK Rasp Site

http://www.drjack.info/cgi-bin/rasp-forum.cgi

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Contents:

1.  UK Rasp Viewer

2. UK Wind Tool

3. UK Blipspot

4. UK RASP track average

5. UK Rasp 4km grid file for google earth

6. Wx Station Data GUI



 

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.


UPDATE:   10May09 - avoiding cached images

includes 12km grid (latest data image comparison) + 1Hr Rain Accumulation (FF only)

  UKRaspviewer_2_11b_12k2day.zip


description of forecast grids here
                            

  Image excel spreadsheet does the work

  Using Google Earth as data source:
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( adapted from walter zorn's javascript to add div elements to page)
lat/lon conversion


2. UK Wind Tool   (30Sep 08) -  Rasp wind forecasts at your favourite ridge.   

(Firefox / Chrome browsers only - use at your own risk)

info on blipspot sfc winds

download zipped html file      latest version 9Sep09   (others won't work due to parameter name changes)

works by comparing blipspot server data against user-input ridge parameters 

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user input:   LAT,LON,ID,L.Wind,R.Wind,Speed
                         eg:  '54.698,-2.58337,SKF,240,300,15',

output:

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3. UK Blipspot/Skewt

Makes a reusable link to current Rasp blipspot and SkewT forecasts for a selected area

   
NEW   v4 - three day forecasts 2 3 Aug09 zipfile download



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3a. google earth interface for drjack's UK skewT / blipspot popups - Note: DrJack's UK data is no longer updated so this app will need to be rebuilt to access a different server
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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


4.   UK  RASP track average - uses Rasp forecast model to predict task time via BGA TPs  - more information here

  web front end   w/2008 BGA Turning Points

polar calculator spreadsheet

 

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 5. UK Rasp 4km grid .kmz file for google earth

  (38k+ gridpoints - takes a while to load in GE)

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6. Wx Station Data GUI     Grabs and displays clientRaw data in a web page. (Firefox only if not running from a server). 

Uses Bindows gauges from
http://www.bindows.net/free_gauges.

links updated 19Oct09

made from sample file located at:

http://www.casacota.cat/teranyina?num=1251459195

wx station list: http://www.weather-watch.com/links/Weather-Stations /

clientRaw format: http://www.meteocarmignano.it/clientraw_parser.php#

clientraw parser



screenshots from above stuff:

UK Lightweight RASP viewer   Image   Rasp viewer - site inspector version FM5b Image


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