Tracking Meteogram

Fig. 1 Tracking meteogram tool loaded over satellite IR for two different storms A and B (see circle center and line legend).

Training Job Sheets (click on "html" for web page layout with image links or "PDF" for PDF viewing with images embedded with instruction)

Jobsheets are extension of the "AWIPS Tracking Meteogram Tool Training" posted to (LMS - Internet, speaker notes PDF) in Feb 2016.
All Tracking Meteogram Jobsheets (html, PDF)
- Jobsheet 1: Track Cloud-Top Temperatures and Load Additional Meteograms (html, PDF)
- Jobsheet 2: Create Meteograms From a Paired Radar Product (html, PDF)
- Jobsheet 3: Create Meteograms From Multiple Stacked Grid Images and Use Snap All Points to This Location (html, PDF )
- Jobsheet 4: Track Total Lightning Density Trends in Convective Storms (html, PDF)

Overview

Track circles with the tool to create time trend of radar, satellite, grid image, and total lightning density
- Does not work with contours, wind barbs, station plots
Apply 8 math operators (max, min, sum, mean, median, standard deviation, range difference, and amplitude)
- Range difference: absolute value of max difference (good for rotation and divergence delta Vs in radar)
- Amplitude: max absolue value (good for damaging wind in base velocity data)
Tracking Meteogram draws a 100x100 grid box and samples the raw data (before AWIPS 16.1.2, 20x20 grid box and sampled pixels drawn on screen)

Refresher Commands

Usage Tips

Avoid having circles extend outside of data domains (grid domains for high-res models in particular) as they can corrupt your calculations.

Limitations

Breaks keyboard shortcuts like Del key on keypad for toggling radar
- Workaround: click on time trend plot then click back on map editor to restore keyboard shortcuts
Does not work with All-Tilts
Cannot save in procedures and cannot save plot configuration changes

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