Thanks Mark - I have added the link to the Caboolture GC site
-- Brian Wade Personal Computer Concepts Uniform Time http://www.uniformtime.com.au PO Box 114 INDOOROOPILLY QLD 4068 Ph: 07 3371 2944 Fax: 07 3870 4103 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Newton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 7:58 PM Subject: [aus-soaring] New Australian Temp Trace site > > Many of you will be aware of the South Australian temp traces available > on my web site, at http://slash.dotat.org/atmos/ > > Unfortunately for most of the denizens of this mailing list, though, the > data available at that site is only useful for pilots flying relatively > close to Adelaide (because the atmospheric sounding comes from a balloon > launched from Adelaide airport). If you don't live near Adelaide, the > best you've been able to get is the daily F160 chart from the Bureau of > Meteorology, which has all the useful data on it, but is -- shall we say -- > less than user-friendly. > > For the last 12 months, Daryl Mackay from WA has been lobbying the Bureau > of Meteorology and Airservices Australia to gain access to the data obtained > from balloon flights all over Australia. His rationale has been that since > the F160 is provided by BoM as a free service, it'd be very useful if the > data behind the F160 was also available. After a year of negotiation, > Daryl has organized access to the information. > > I've spent a couple of days writing software to present it in a useful > manner. I think I'm ready to unleash the results on an unsuspecting > public, so I now direct your attention to http://slash.dotat.org/cgi-bin/atmos > > This new site contains -national- sounding information, instead of > just the Adelaide data. Simply select the site closest to you and hit > the submit button, and you'll see an aerological diagram produced from the > most recent BoM balloon flight, containing temperature, dewpoint, wind speed > and wind direction against altitude. > > But that's not all -- You can also look at histoical data. As the BoM releases > data, it's being sucked into my database, and once it's in the database it's > never deleted. There's a menu of times and dates which you can pick and > choose once you've told the facility about which launch site you're > interested in. I only have a couple of days worth of data so far, but as > time goes by I feel that this will become quite a useful statistical resource. > > Have a look at it and tell me what you think. Also, if you have any friends > in the hang glider or paraglider community, pass the URL to them too. I > want this to be a useful resource for all soaring pilots in Australia, for > compeition forecasters, daily briefings, cross country planning, you name it. > > So: That URL again: http://slash.dotat.org/cgi-bin/atmos > > Enjoy! > > - mark > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > I tried an internal modem, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > but it hurt when I walked. Mark Newton > ----- Voice: +61-4-1620-2223 ------------- Fax: +61-8-82231777 ----- > > -- > * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. > * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message > * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information. > > -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information.
