Script: cone.gs; Draws "Cone of Uncertainty" for projected storm path using the MFHILO function

As we start to get into the meat of the northern hemisphere Hurricane season, I figured I would release a couple of entries related to hurricanes and tropical storms.  The first of which is a script I recently put together called "cone.gs"  This script helps plot one...

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Tutorial: Two ways to plot future storm track using the MFHILO function and traj.gs

This tutorial will show you how to plot a possible storm track extending out from a storm center on RADAR.  This tutorial will show you how to do this using two different methods.  The first (more complicated) method requires the use of traj.gs and information of a...

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New Script Version: colorset.gs; new color-scales!

Version 2.1 of colorset.gs has been finished and published here. This version includes new color scales, including visible satellite, cloud top height, and RADAR reflectivity color scales used by Weather Underground. Check out more information following the link above, or download the new version directly here: Download Colorset.gs -v...

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Script: Scatter.gs; Easily create scatter plots with regression lines in GrADS

This script not only makes it possible, but easy to plot 2D scatter or line plots in GrADS using user specified arrays. That is, there is no requirement than an outside file be open, and the 'display' command is not needed or used.  Now, for most things, it is probably...

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A Few Updates

This post is not going to contain any new scripts/tutorials or information of that matter.  However, due to the (fairly unexpected) popularity of this site as well as a lack of recent updates I figured it might be worthwhile to provide a few updates. The example scripts in a lot of the tutorials open files from the NOMADS data server, a lot...

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