NOAA READY Sounding data as Stueve Diagram Java Displayer

Code takes a NOAA Ready Sounding txt file, xxxx_profile.txt , and tries to calculate the cloud base and expected thermal strength.

Obtain NOAA Ready Sounding data

From NOAA Ready , http://www.arl.noaa.gov/ready/cmet.html? , pick your spot and choose Sounding

Choose your start time, time interval, Java, up to 400mb,

Once the sounding data gets displayed

Download the

into the data directory where the NOAA.bat file is

Start NOAA.bat, what is the same as java -jar "NOAA.jar"

Choose the downloaded profile.txt file

Choose the sounding time that you are interested in, normally that would be the 12Z = 14.00 SA time

XX YY

XX is the day

YY is the time in Zulu GMT

Move mouse horizontal to set you expected temperature

In this example we got

23C as the expected ground temperature when the thermal starts off.

Yellow line is the DALR

Best lift will be at 2051 m ASL

White line indicates condensation and cloud base at around 2800m ASL

Grey as the condensating air going up, SALR, Saturated adiabatic Lapse Rate

Lift Rate East Coast Formula is the expected lift at TI-3, in that case 2.8 m/s. Take 1.0 m/s off from that for your glider sink.

And we can expect around 1.8m/s thermal strength on your vario.

On the right side is the wind speed in km/h and direction.

Green means not too strong for a Paraglider on the ground for take-off and landing.

and start the code with the URL

or use

With Version 3 of the code, in the reports directory, 2 files get created.

A plain text file.

And a html file