pseabury
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Your attached overlay looks like an Infrared of the atlantic/caribbean. I intend to eventually include a plethora of data, all related to tropical activity, to this feed. I'm just doing it one step at a time. I'll look at the source of that overlay data and see if I can find a higher resolution one before I include it. Not that it loks bad, but I'm going to try to include the highest res stuff for all the data in the link. Thanks for your input...hopefully towards the end of this week there'll be LOTS more to this link.
[EDIT] - Also keep in mind that I mean highest resolution both spatially and temporally.
Paully
Edited by pseabury (07/25/05 06:15 PM)
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SoFlaChris
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DOH... I should have thought to open the folder! This is great. Keep it coming.
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chris :: wired
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pseabury
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No Problem at all. If people don't typically expand their placemarks, then I should provide some other indication...maybe a legend like my other hurricane display has. That's the kind of stuff I'm trying to find out from people that post. Thanks Chris.
Paul
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CapeVerde
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Most excellent! Some of us weatherbugs living on the coast will be using this layer a lot. Thanks!
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pseabury
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Thanks CapeVerde, much appreciated.
I just updated the link slightly. Now the generated KML makes the placemarks and lines with an altitude, to prevent the lines from dissapearing into the ocean/land when the distance between points in very far. I didn't want to make the lines relative to ground in case they passed over a bump in elevation. It still may not be perfect, but it's at least better. I also made the lines 1 pixel thicker and scaled up the point graphics slightly.
BTW, I was talking to a meteorologist about the format of the data, as well as the storms named "Invest". I thought they were bogus, but he assured me that "Invest" is typically a name given to a storm in the preliminary stages of tracking it. I suppose they don't want to waste a name from the list on a storm of this nature, but then again, they want to give it a name. There may be more to it than that, but that's what I know about it.
Paul
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LynnA
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You guys (and GE) are amazing. I'm a newbie but a huge tropical weather enthusiast and this is so helpful.
I notice when I import the links in GE they end up in temporary places. Shouldn't they be overlays?
Thanks for all of your hard work.
Lynn
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pseabury
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Lynn,
You can just Drag and Drop the Placemark(Folder, whatever) to your "My Places" tree. Then you can save it manually, or when GE exits it will ask you to save if you haven't already.
Paul
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CapeVerde
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The Invest storms are far from bogus. They are tropical waves that appear to have the potential to develop into tropical depressions, storms, or hurricanes.
Avid weatherwatchers follow them closely, as does the the National Hurricane Center. An Invest is something they spend time and manpower investigating with flights to gather atmospheric conditions.
A new Invest, 93L, was identified last night, and the huge wave coming off Africa right now is almost certain to become Invest 94L within a day or two.
They don't actually give a storm a name until it reaches tropical storm status. It has to be identified as a tropical depression before that and just given a different number. If Invest 92L becomes a tropical depression, it will be called TD8.
Being able to track these Invests on Earth Google thanks to your work is just awesome, in my opinion.
CV
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pseabury
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Thanks CV......it was pretty cool to get up this morning and see two new "Invests" steaming westward in the tropical atlantic. I'm still working on the raw SST, but be patient...I'll get it soon enough.
Paul
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CapeVerde
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In addition to your layer, I've downloaded a layer for global satellite infrared radar which depicts cloud temperatures (colder meaning bigger and more stormy). I got it here:Global Infrared Satellite Images
The combination of your layer with this makes an excellent way of tracking storms and their intensity.
When you develop your SST layer, it's going to be an incredibly valuable tool in predicting increases in storm intensity.
CV
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