{"id":15866,"date":"2019-05-02T16:40:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T21:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/?p=15866"},"modified":"2019-05-02T18:18:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T23:18:52","slug":"new-nucaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2019\/05\/02\/new-nucaps\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW NUCAPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NUCAPS offer a way to get a vertical profile of the atmosphere across the US. However, in areas where soundings were not &#8220;retrievable&#8221; it can leave many of the products with large holes in them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15870\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15870\" style=\"width: 1281px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15870\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/NUCAPS_CAPE.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1281\" height=\"771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/NUCAPS_CAPE.png 1281w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/NUCAPS_CAPE-900x542.png 900w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/NUCAPS_CAPE-768x462.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/NUCAPS_CAPE-600x361.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Default Output From NUCAPS on w\/ vis satellite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A great application would be some type of algorithm that fills in the &#8220;data holes&#8221; Two ways to approch this would be:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0Linear interpolation between the grids<\/li>\n<li>Use a model such as the RAP to fill in the gaps<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15871\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15871\" style=\"width: 1296px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15871\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/NU_CAPS_RAP.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1296\" height=\"775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/NU_CAPS_RAP.png 1296w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/NU_CAPS_RAP-900x538.png 900w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/NU_CAPS_RAP-768x459.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2019\/05\/NU_CAPS_RAP-600x359.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A quick attempt at a combined product with the NUCAPs Forecast and the RAP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A smoothing of some sort would still benefit the product above, but this would be of great benefit to forecaster&#8217;s trying to determine the afternoon environment. (Note: I think it would be beneficial to include a mask that said whether the data was from NUCAPs or a model in each location if a product like this was developed. All in all, this is a useful product, but it needs some further refining.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">South Beach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NUCAPS offer a way to get a vertical profile of the atmosphere across the US. However, in areas where soundings were not &#8220;retrievable&#8221; it can leave many of the products&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2019\/05\/02\/new-nucaps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-15866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-blogs","tag-nucaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15882,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866\/revisions\/15882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}