WINGRIDDS is a Microsoft Windows 32-bit implementation of the DOS-based PCGRIDDS application. The program allows the user to view meteorologically significant fields of gridded observation analysis and numerical weather prediction model output (GRIB files). The fields are displayed in either contour or vector format, whichever is appropriate for a particular field.
v4.8 [Jun 20, 2014]
- it can display and animate Sounding (Skew-T, Telphigram & Stuve plots) and Hodograph plots of both model and observation grid-point data.
- it can process and display forward and backward Trajectories on both pressure and isentropic surfaces.
- it can process and display Ensemble Probabilities GRIB data from NCEPs SREF model.
- it can process and display native RAP (Rapid update Cycle) Hybrid-B surfaces.
- it can create BUFKIT data files on Station ID, Lat/Lon or Grid-point locations.
- it can display both the standard and Hi Rez NCEP-issued ASUS Frontal Position data files.
- it can perform real-time grid data interpolation for map projections of Lat/Lon, Lambert Conformal and Polar Stereographic and allows the user to create customized grid projections to map the data to.
- the Observation ingest utility OBS2PCG32 will now ingest & process observation BUFR-formatted files which include METAR & Marine obs, Upper-Air RAOBs, NEXRAD VAD Winds, Profiler obs, Polar satellite and Geostationary satellite sounding obs, satellite-based cloud-track wind obs, QuickScat satellite surface winds, etc.
