[lsoltero]

I use the NOAA 500mb charts frequently as they are a great way to see what is coming at me in terms of future weather. Now that GRIBs have become my overwhelming interest for the week, I started to look at what was available for 500mb GRIBs. I can't find anything out there that shows both 500mb height AND winds at that height. I have found some that include surface wind with the 500mb isobars, but that doesn't really help as I am interested in how FAST those upper level systems are moving. Anybody found a GRIB that duplicates the NOAA chart?

You might want to take a look at weathernet. WeatherNet includes both 500mb height and 500mb winds from various models including GFS, NOGAPS, and other regional models.

And.. all this is available via www.macwx.com which works in conjunction with GPSNavX grib viewer.

here are links which describe the products
http://www.globalmarinenet.com/weathernet.htm
http://www.macwx.com

The windows version of weathernet works under an emulator. You can use it with vmware.com (I have tested this personally) and parallels.

macwx uses e-mail to download the weather. WeatherNet allows both a direct download connection and an e-mail inteface. It also supports a large array of satellite phones and works with winlink, sailmail, and xnet (www.xnetmail.com).

--luis

Luis Soltero, Ph.D., MCS
Director of Software Development, CTO
Global Marine Networks, LLC
StarPilot, LLC
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