Meteo France will deliver call number 3 june 2010 an update of its application of queries and viewing GRIB weather files, texts, graphs and satellite images.
Patrick Le Lay and his team have made many technical improvements to make this tool more robust and ergonomic. They have also incorporated the latest advances in meteorological modeling.
The new
Most apparent is the loading rate has been halved by modifying the compression system. The most user friendly is the ability to customize the loading image, by replacing the standard image by any image of the same size.
A histogram of weather is available now for a grid point and for a predefined route :
The histogram grid point is simple, simply activate the button in the viewer then right click the mouse, which now displays informational window and the histogram. Moving the mouse continuously updates these 2 windows. One histogram available for each of the 9 pages (tabs) in the viewer.
Histogram grid point
The histogram for a predefined route allows, After clicking this button in the Route toolbox, to see a window with the evolution of weather parameters on the route for each waypoint corresponding to a run of GRIB file displayed. One histogram available per route.
Histogram waypoints
These histograms windows can be moved and expanded in width. The data displayed depends on the choice of display parameters selected in the viewer. Two paragraphs in Help file are dedicated to this function.
This novelty is an option, that can not activate (if it seems too complicated) anyway, Patrick Le Lay hopes that the data displayed in a new dimension will allow users to better exploit the data received.
Weather models
Meteo France now offers two versions of the model Arpege High Resolution :
- The Region Europe comes in grid of 0.1°, it covers the entire Mediterranean and extends to 32°W with runs up to 4 days, updated 4 time daily.
- The Region Globe in grid of 0.5°, with maturities up to 4 days, updated 4 time daily.
Various improvements
Moving the connect button on the bottom left of the window, emergence of a button displaying METAREA areas in top toolbar, improved icons and buttons interface, resizable image viewer, and numerous display corrections. The detailed release notes are available through the button "edition" to the right of the top banner.
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