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- Digital
Atmosphere - Tim Vasquez's excellent
weather plotter for surface and upper atmosphere charts, using
raw data available on the Net (21/03/00)
- Synoptic -
A British version of the same thing, but not IMHO so user friendly.
Check the demo.txt file for information. (21/03/00)
- University of Michigan Weather
Software FTP
site (21/03/00)
- Much of the meteorological information
on the Web is available in graphical form, and whilst browsers such
as Netscape and Explorer will let you see most of them, they do
not allow you a great deal of flexibility in managing the image
files. My system is a Pentium 100 with 16mb Ram running Windows
95, and I find that Paintshop Pro 32 bit version allows me to store,
recall, and edit images, and (perhaps most importantly for real
time weather information) run a group of images as a manually controlled
movie loop. More information on this will be added here when
I have the time. In the
meantime, Roger
Brugge's general information on viewers
may be useful, as it covers a wide range of operating systems. Many
of the charts on this list, from the NWS, use the rather exotic TIF format
which, again, I find Paintshop Pro good at managing. (21/03/00)
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