Observed/model soundings

MeteoLatvia

I had an idea that was in my mind for quite a time, but since the start of this forum I completely forgot about it, so here it goes.

My idea was to create something called "Sounding panel", where you can either see all sounding sites in the US (and maybe globally), and when clicked it opens a window where you can view it (I added an example image from "Pivotal Weather") it can also be used with model data, where you click in the place where you want to see it on the map and it opens up the window where you can see the Skew-T and hodograph. I think it would be a super useful tool for seeing not only the parameters on the 2D raster dataset (for weather models) but also the vertical profile of the atmosphere and I guess there is quite a bunch of people who would love also to see this in one place. 🙂

P.S. Paul, this is a rough start of an idea, I don't have any idea what more information will you potentially need and if this is even possible, but just wanted to share an old idea that would make this product even more powerful. 🙂

Paul

I accept that I can't avoid getting into this. Tactical mesoanalysis requires inspection and human understanding of vertically sampled 3D datasets in 2D. Certainly, I can take comfort in doing everything else first with the 3D/2D mapping engine, even releasing. But yes, this will have to come eventually. We can start thinking about priorities and simplified design where I start with the basics. Is clicking a point going to call a function on a web server which samples 3D fields, is it going to sample local 3D fields, is the server going to pre-process a fixed list of points at which these samples are already generated, etc.

This is a good seed to plant so we can start thinking about it. It is dependent on all the 2D and 3D raster processing, compression, streaming, and display, so it's possible this is a good area to add in 2026 after release.