A place for lots of soaring coolness.
Parsing meteo data for a particular point: grib_ls -m -l 47.683900,-120.935794,1 -p paramId,name,level,time rap_130_20120822_2100_000.grb2
RAP Archive: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/model-data/model-datasets/rapid-refresh-rap
68de910c-ff55-4be7-b163-0d46e8a94c97 55584744 -119.56293333337 47.3514166666813 1425 1.94723618090453 775 2013-06-01 21:25:42
http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?flightId=55584744
Mountain Thermal: 5efc712e-0656-4003-b981-88a2348f3756 537762561 -121.236050000037 48.4365833333483 2362 1.23099415204678 420 2015-05-03 23:22:58
Finding the GDAL package on Ubuntu:
sudo apt-cache search gdal
Then install libgdal-dev:
sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev
export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/gdal
export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/gdal
pip install GDAL
DEM Coordinates:
top left: lat: 49 lon: -125
lower right: lat: 43.5 lon: -112
Download STRM TIFF here:
http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/SELECTION/inputCoord.asp
SRTM 90m DEM version 4 srtm_12_03:
Latitude min: 45 N max: 50 N
Longitude min: 125 W max: 120 W
srtm_13_03:
Latitude min: 45 N max: 50 N
Longitude min: 120 W max: 115 W
I started with leveraging GRIB_API but found it too slow for parsing data at a particular point. The tools do not appear to support multi-threading. I am switching to wgrib2 to generate CSV files, which should be easier to process.
Time bounds:
17Z through 3Z
Swiss Thermal Hot spots: http://thermal.kk7.ch/ XCSoar Custom Map: http://www.dotmana.com/weblog/2014/07/xcsoar-generate-custom-maps/
Mt Pilchuck: 48.058099 -121.796903