Pennsylvania Ridge Day Sat Mar 4, 2017 - HRRR Model and GOES Visible Data

Here are the visible and PBL height/wind vector displays with the flights as an overlay. Trails are 20 minutes long. Daniel is orange, Rob is yellow, Phil is green, and I'm blue. (in the PBL height animation Daniel is magenta so he doesn't disappear into the shading). The trail length really drives home the speed differences.

https://psu.box.com/s/0hjl7j4z54cfs62evgk69l37a7viepvj

Walt, do you know when GOES 16 imagery is going to make it into an archive somewhere? I don't usually do visible animations because the current satellites' imagery is just a little too low resolution to look like much for flights shorter than ~500 km.

On Sunday, March 5, 2017 at 5:40:12 PM UTC-5, WaltWX wrote:
FYI...

I saved some images of HRRR model forecasts (valid from 14Z 20170304) thermal height (pbl msl), 80 Wind vectors and speed, Ceiling height and low cloud cover along with the GOES East 1km visible images he

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lugaxwoix...hWSzac9ka?dl=0

You'll see a 45Meg *.mov of the GOES imagery

Folders contains 10 images (hours) from 14Z to 23Z of pblmsl thermal height, Winds 80meters, low cloud cover and ceiling height.

For those adventurous enough, if you load IDV, you can open the *.zdv bundle and load the original data in for all this data configured for viewing and looping. If you do that, it can be panned, zoomed and new background maps can be loaded. If I had time, I could add a turnpoint gliding database or shapefiles.

Left as an exercise to those so motivated...

Congratulations to those who flew, Dan, Jonny and all!

Walt Rogers WX