Monday, May 21, 2018

First Impression of NUCAPS (and NUCAPS soundings)

I like the ability to click on a dot and pull up a NUCAPS sounding. The color-coding is also a plus (though a legend that describes the differences between green, yellow and red...or some descriptor of why a dot is yellow or red as one scrolls over the dot...would certainly help).

If a dot is highlighted as red (presumably meaning there is bad data), is it worth it to even have the option to display the sounding? If NUCAPS soundings were ingested into models as supplemental soundings, would we want data from "red" (or even "yellow") locations included? Probably not...


- Thomas Bell

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