Make hurricane track visible on synoptic model views

[PhillipsOwen]

Rick mentioned that there are other types of hurricane information (tracks, cones etc) for synoptic runs.

he would like to see those layers appear when there is a hurricane layer in progress for synoptic runs.

he will be inquiring with the met/get folks to determine if that information is available.

also, i pointed him at a workaround for now.

[rluettich]

Our tropical runs use track files that come from NHC. ADCIRC turns these into wind and pressure fields for its own use. Having APSViz plot the NHC track files (including the cone of uncertainty) is a great help for interpreting the ADCIRC results. V3 of the UI does this nicely.

However, we often are also interested in the ADCIRC results from synoptic runs during tropical events. These synoptic runs use gridded wind fields (e.g., from GFS or COAMPS-TC) that we access via MetGet. If there is a tropical event present, there are usually track files (but no cone of uncertainty) associated with these synoptic gridded wind fields or in the worst case we could compute one ourselves. Having these track files displayed would be a great help interpreting these synoptic ADCIRC results.

As a starting point, I'll ask Zach Cobell whether MetGet archives and can serve the track files associated with the synoptic runs.

[rluettich]

It appears that we are archiving track files in AWS-S3 for the COAMPS-TC model (which we are running for the NOPP project). Zach Cobell said he would look into serving these via MetGet analogously to the way the NHC track files are served.

[PhillipsOwen]

What is the status of this?

[rluettich]

Zach now has track files for all synoptic models available from MetGet. I believe the call to MetGet is comparable to the way you have previously accessed the NHC track for tropical runs. It seems like there are two issues to address, (1) confirm that you are able to get a track file back from MetGet upon request and (2) figure out how the UI would know to do this during an event. The latter might be worth a zoom call? I have pretty good availability next week if that works for others.

[PhillipsOwen]

thanks for the update on this.

i will put this on todays meeting agenda as a preliminary discussion. once we go through some of the technical implications we will engage you.