Bismark CWA Derived Wind Analysis

Quick look at the derived wind fields across Bismarck CWA. Still a lot of clear skies, but sum information can be gleaned from image below (upper left 300mb, upper right 500mb, lower left 700mb):

Think lack of elements to track at the moment have lowered my confidence in some of the values, but in areas with  more extensive cloud cover seems to be picking up jet at 300mb.  Think best track to take is to monitor how these fields change over time as tracking elements begin to increase.

One concern I have is the color and labeling scheme. The current default is the same as VWP where red corresponds to poor data quality and green is good. This could be fairly confusing. Instead of coloring by speed, perhaps coloring by pressure level would be better?  As it stands you could not overlay several layers over an image and use it easily.


-JRM