Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Meteorology / February 2005

I am working on a method for interpolating samples obtained by locally averaging a field using weight functions. Do you think this could have applications in meteorology, e.g. for interpolating data s.a. temperature readings? Any pointers would be very much appreciated.
Thanks.

Does anyone know if a web site exists that shows tornado probability
forecast contours? And for that matter any kind of tornado mapped
forecasts?

Is there a source that will tell me how many clear days a particular region
(city) has had over some period of time? In particular, I'd like to know
how many clear (reasonably cloudless) days we've had since Oct. 1, 2004.

I am looking for a way to calculate this fairly simply in a script so I am
in need of someone to point me at some documentation somewhere which shows
the necessary calculation, then I can script it. I know there are website
which do this but I need to be able to run the ...

Has anyone learned of a method to trace back ozone levels or how thick
the ozone layer was at various times in the past?

These globally averaged temperature data come from NASA:
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/data/update/gistemp/GLB.Ts.txt
They represent the results of tens of millions of readings
taken at thousands of stations covering all the lands of the

http://www.met.fsu.edu/rawdata/ussyn/20050217/2005021718.ussyn
Is this a new change to remove the climate data from the USA synop
code? All but a few locations now no longer report the climate data
that appears after the 333 group and before the 555 group ?

a previous discussion indicated that actual air pressure readings
from places located at altitude (such as Mexico city) are conveted to
sea-level values so that surface pressures from various parts of the
country can be compared.

"Global Warmism" is a bizarre religious cult.  Move all such nonsense
to
alt.religion.paranoid.marxist.gullible
or just drink the damn koolaid and fly to Hale-Bopp already

35 years ago I found a relation between earthquakes and lower clouds
and I predicted 5 earthquakes... not one worldwide scientific believed
me... I was 16 when I found the first relation.. last year a bulgarian
scientist found the same relation from satellite... for more info look

http://users.telenet.be/weathersite/Articles/WorldWeather.html
At 2005-02-16 18:00 UT, NANCY was 1463 nmi ENE of Auckland, New Zealand and
1463 nmi ENE of Hamilton, New Zealand
At 2005-02-17 06:00 UT, OLAF was 1549 nmi NE of Auckland, New Zealand and

I would like to work with the GFS model data.
My source is : (it's maybe the only one!)
ftp://ftpprd.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/gfs/prod/
In subfolders, there are file named gfs.t00z.xxnn without extension.

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/detect/animations/halfsize_20030928-20040510.avi
(Large file)
See the description at:
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/detect/ice-seaice.shtml

my understanding is that air pressure [mb] or [hPa] (metric units
please) descreases with altitude. A rough rule of thumb that I've seen
cited is that the correction is 1 millibar for each 8 meters of
altitude gain.

Posted 15 Feb 2005 on the Idsos' web site:
http://www.co2science.org/scripts/Template/MainPage.jsp?Page=data
/ushcn/stationoftheweek
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