GRIB Explorer
"Strengths: The best GRIB display
program I've seen. Unique graphical display of all weather
parameters at all time periods at cursor location. Gives
you an intuitive "feel” for the weather. Displays all
parameters you might want with wide range of display
adjustment.
Bottom line: The perfect program for those who want
the best GRIB weather analysis tool on the water, whether
or not you display weather in your navigation program."
Chris
Parker is the author of
Coastal and Offshore Weather and prepares
forecasts for the Caribbean Weather Center.
Ocean Voyager 2007, Posted On: 7/25/2007
Now any at-sea user, from day sailors to coastal
cruisers and fishermen, can acquire and put to use the
weather and ocean insights offered by GRIB data.
The GRIB Explorer GRIB viewing software allows
you to view GRIB data like 500mb and sea surface heights the
way they are meant to be viewed, in 3D.
Want to give
GRIB Explorer
a try before you buy? Download the three day
demo of WeatherNet with GRIB Explorer and MetMapper
software. |
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GRIB
Explorer Software $199.00
**Vista 64bit not
supported at this time** |
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| GRIB
Explorer Upgrade
from previous
version
$59.00 |
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OCENS GRIB Explorer offers unprecedented access
to the power of GRIB data.
GRIB, short for Gridded Binary, data is a unique form
of weather and ocean data heretofore the exclusive province
of ocean racers, shipping lines, and routing companies
running sophisticated and expensive software packages.
With a simple interface operating in synchrony with
the streamlined data access engine of OCENS WeatherNet,
GRIB Explorer levels the playing field.
Why GRIB Data?
GRIB data is special because of its size, information
content, and versatility of use. Generated by weather
and ocean models operating on national, regional and
sometimes global scales, GRIB files associate an environmental
variable with a geographic position. Because the resulting
file consists of just a collection of these points they
are extremely small and thus readily transferred over
bandwidth limited satcoms, cell phones and other wireless
devices. And the information content of GRIB data is
awe-inspiring. Almost every conceivable weather and
ocean data variable is available in GRIB format. Surface
pressure, wind, waves, swell, cloud cover, precipitation,
sea temperature, currents, salinity, even sub-surface
temperatures and mixed layer depths are available in
GRIB format. In many cases, spatial resolutions reach
as low as to 0.1 degree lat/lon and are available on
a global basis. Lastly, the weather variables are forecasted
out to 120 hours and longer so it is possible to use
the data to view weather anticipated several days in
advance.
Is it hard to use?
OCENS GRIB Explorer changes all that. With a simple,
easy-to-use graphical user interface, GRIB Explorer
places the power of GRIB data at your fingertips. Double-click
on the GRIB file you have downloaded and it will instantly
display your data in a very dynamic graphical format.
The display can easily be changed to show contours lines,
color filled contours, arrows or wind barbs, and even
data point values. All of this allows relevant weather
or ocean features to become much more evident.
GRIB Explorer is so easy to use and powerful that
customers opt to use in in lieu of viewing GRIB data
with their existing GRIB viewing capable navigation
software.
How do I access GRIB data?
Of course, being able to use GRIB Explorer to explore
the power of GRIB data is pointless without a means
of easily obtaining your GRIB data while at-sea. Fortunately,
OCENS offers today's definitive weather delivery engine,
WeatherNet. With over 20,000 GRIB files, WeatherNet
carries the world's largest collection of GRIB weather
and ocean data. Not only is the collection robust, but
the WeatherNet delivery service drops those files onto
your computer just seconds after your request through
any satcomm, cell phone or wireless device. Once delivered,
the synergy between OCENS WeatherNet and OCENS GRIB
Explorer is clearly evident. Upon closing WeatherNet's
File Transfer screen, GRIB Explorer launches immediately
and begins to process and display your downloaded GRIB
data. If you've downloaded a point forecast for a given
GRIB variable, that file is displayed by itself. But
if you've downloaded a series of forecasts, say from
the analysis of present conditions out to 120 hours,
GRIB Explorer kicks into animation mode automatically
to put the weather in motion like you've never seen
before.
OCENS GRIB Explorer places you at the cutting edge of
weather information processing. Buy it now and put to
use the best available weather and ocean data for the
critical decisions affecting your navigation and trip
planning.