Dear Sarath,

I have designed such a portal in the past. Please email me 
[email protected] and we'll discuss a good way to go about 
implementing it

Cheers
Ujjwal


On Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 11:59:15 PM UTC-6, Sarath Guttikunda wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> following the recent request for rainfall data in Bengaluru (we also get 
> similar requests for data for air pollution modeling), here is a proposal 
> and couple of to do's, which some of you can help build and operationalize.
>
> The NCEP data fields are available @ 1 degree resolution, Global, from 
> 1948, and for free. Except that the files are very large, formated (netcdf, 
> which is not a problem in most of the mapping programs). 
> http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds083.2/index.html#!description
>
> We use WRF meteorological to downscale this systematically for the years 
> in need. Over India, we work with the attached domain @ 0.25 degree 
> resolution and @ 1 hour temporal resolution. Multiple fields from WRF go 
> into dispersion models for pollution models, but five elements which are 
> most useful are - wind speed, wind direction, precipitation, mixing 
> heights, and temperature. We run WRF and archive these minimum parameters 
> for modeling purposes. Again, very large files.
>
> WRF model - http://wrf-model.org/index.php
> FYI, IMD uses the same databases and the same meteorological model at 
> higher horizontal and vertical resolutions (using bigger servers).
>
> WRF can be run in forecast (using GFS fields) and hindcast mode (using 
> NCEP fields)
> For example
> hindcast - http://www.delhiairquality.info/meteorology
> forecast - http://www.delhiairquality.info/daqi-meteo/
> (Delhi system runs @ 0.01 degree resolution in a nested mode)
>
> Proposal
>
> We can run the WRF model for multiple years and archive the data over 
> India @ 0.25 degree resolution.
>
> Can one of you or many of you, build a query portal where a user inputs 
> latitude and longitude (say for Bengaluru) and the year in need (time 
> range), and the system extracts the information for the five parameters 
> listed above from this WRF modeled data archive (not the raw data from 
> NCEP). We need to know the format in which you want the data. We can host 
> the portal.
>
> With regards,
> Sarath
>
> --
> *Dr. Sarath Guttikunda*
> *http://www.urbanemissions.info <http://www.urbanemissions.info>*
>

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