BLIPMAP PROJECT TO-DO LIST
Updated June 27, 2006
PIE IN THE SKY (BYE AND BYE)
LARGE PROJECTS (estimated more than 3 working days)
> Add windspeed+streamline plots for surface and possibly BL-top
> Analyze forecast trend as function of prediction period, looking for biases such as possible "early over-optimism" in NAM
(have largely completed program to do this, but not yet run)
> Possibly convert NAM to use its own BL depth diagnosis instead of my analyzed value
(but this would mean RAP and NAM use different definitions for BL top - it that ok ?)
> Create viewer to display side-by-side NAM and RAP results for same parameter and time (current-day only)
(start from NCAR 2VIEWER I downloaded ?)
> Write history of blipmap development for Peter Smith
SMALL PROJECTS (estimated 1-3 working days)
> Convert max. BL RH parameter to "BL Cloud Coverage" parameter based on simple formula
> Create listing of loaded image names for javascript viewer
(requires a volunteer knowledgable in javascript to do this)
QUICK STUFF (estimated less than 8 working hours)
SHELVED INDEFINITELY
> Include condensation heating effect in W* (might make results overly sensitive to bad cloud predictions and heating rate requires temporal eqn calc)
> Add lat/long lines to location plots (didn't work on 1st attempt)
> ?? Change to scalar windspeed averaging, esp. for B/S ratio ??