RAOB 6.0 Enhancements
BASIC Program Enhancements
- IMPROVED:
- Soaring display now includes Boundary Layer Energy (J/kg) text output
- CSV data decoder can now process U/V wind component data
- Expanded “recent files” listing from 5 to 10 data files
- ADDED:
- Humidity Index
- Thunderstorm Severity Index
- Transport Wind Vector as a function of the mixing-layer mean wind
- Option to display Transport wind data on sounding similar to BUFKIT
- Option to specify the sounding diagram’s lower pressure level
- Option to control detection of lower freezing level location
- Option to manually specify number of high-density wind plots
- Ozone & Omega data fields now included in the CSV data encoder
- Vapor-density & Liquid-water now included in the CSV encoder
- New BUFKIT data encoder – also includes CFRL data if available
- Options to display up to 3 shear values with user defined depths
- 850 & 700 mb temp & heights now available for diagram data displays
ANALYTIC Module Enhancements (optional)
- ADDED:
- Weather Warning Alert feature automatically detects threshold criteria
- Dry Microburst Potential nomogram on the Severe Weather display
- “Precipitation type” is now included on the Listing’s Analysis page
- Ability to display wind data in U/V components on the Listings view
- Ability to configure initial display diagram as Severe or Winter mode
- Expanded the Cloud coverage with the FEW category data type
- Expanded export data to included virtual temperature
- BATCH/TIMER ADDITIONS:
- Functions can now be started with a new Command Line option
- Searches can now be performed with “most recent” file and wildcard options
- Process can now include option to automatically encode data in the WMO format
- Added the Corfidi Downshear vector
- Renamed the Meso-Beta vector to the Corfidi Upshear vector
- Added options to display up to 3 shear values with user defined depths
SOUNDINGRAM Module Enhancements (optional)
- Added CAPE data to the toolbar analyses options
- Added BUFKIT’s Omega data to the toolbar analyses options
- Added BUFKIT & BUFR Omega data to the toolbar analyses options
- Added 35 Meteogram parameters as display overlay options
- Consolidated the individual Pressure Level toolbar options into one button
- Added the Weather Warning Alert feature (requires use of the Analytic module)
- Option to automatically save diagram images following each update
- Process can now automatically restart following system reboot
- IMPROVED:
- IGRA decoder for format differences
- Sippican-RTSO decoder for coordinate variances
- FSL-NCDC decoder to better process data anomalies
- ADDED:
- GRAW decoder
- InterMet (IMET) decoder
- BOM (Australian) decoder for single high-density data
- BOM II (Australian) decoder for multi-sounding time-series data
- FSL/GSD GFS decoder
- Tephis (Canadian) decoder for GEM 00-48 hr forecast data
- Improved the GRIBv1 decoder to process more International grid formats
- Completed the GRIBv2 decoder, but only for non-JPEG2000 compression formats
- The BUFR decoder now processes CFRL (cloud coverage) data
- Added the new BUFR data encoder option
- Now decodes all Scan Angles and Zenith data modes via menu selection
- Decoder remembers last station elevation used for follow-on processing