Great job Matt! Matt has done a lot of work in setting this up; I know because I have been working on a RaspGM site for Northern NSW based on the RASP/WRF 3.6.1/Paul Scorer (RaspGM) code also. It is currently still a work in progress but will be up and running for the Narromine Cup / NSW State Titles in late November. The resolution is 3.6Km so not quite as high as Matt's 2Km resolution maps. The VIC maps and this one overlap. Thanks to Paul Scorer and Dr Jack Glendinning.
See https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/nswraspgm/RASPtableGM.html Regards, Bernie. Message: 1 Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 13:20:51 +1100 From: Matthew Gage <[email protected]> To: Aus Soaring <[email protected]> Subject: [Aus-soaring] New weather prediction site for Victoria and Tasmania Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Thanks to the VSA for providing funding for a server, we now have a new Soaring Forecast site for Victoria and Tasmania. It?s available at: http://vicmet.knightschallenge.com/VIC http://vicmet.knightschallenge.com/TAS For those interested in details, this is closely related to RASP. Instead of using WRF version 2 for generating the core model, this is using version 3.8.1 (from August 2016) and intend to upgrade every 6 months as a new version is released. This hopefully should prevent the predictions becoming less and less accurate over time. The images are created using the existing DrJack RASP software. These are overlaid on google maps using software based on that created by Paul Scorer in the UK. New forecasts are created twice each day for 6 days. The first 2 days are at a very high resolution (good for wave, etc), the following 4 days are at a lower resolution (but still higher than the previous RASP). Today?s forecast should be ready by about 7:30am and in the evening, Tomorrow?s forecast should be ready by 7:30pm. The server will keep about 100 days of historical forecasts, depending on available disk space. Matt Gage ------------------------------ These are also available from the following urls, which are better to use if possible: http://vicmet.gliding.asn.au/VIC/ <http://vicmet.gliding.asn.au/VIC/> http://vicmet.gliding.asn.au/TAS/ <http://vicmet.gliding.asn.au/TAS/> Database: 4664/13206 - Release Date: 10/13/16 _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
