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Buoyweather's new Global Data Browser is a very powerful weather tool. It allows you to place a Virtual Buoy anywhere in the Pacific, Atlantic,
Indian Oceans, and beyond. Preset Virtual Buoys are available free for most coastal areas of the world as
a public service. When you need offshore data, Buoyweather Pro Subscribers can use the data browser to create custom Virtual Buoys
almost anywhere. Now with the addition of NOAA's GFS and ETA model data, Buoyweather is no longer just marine weather. Our new GFS Meteo file covers all land and water points in the world! Whether you need a forecast Mediterranean or Red Seas, Amazon Rain Forest, Sahara Desert, Swiss Alps or Nebraska, buoyweather is there to support your weather needs like no other company in the world. There are more than 500,000 unique forecasts! Forecasts are obtained by first choosing your weather model. Select from the "DATA BROWSER" menu. This depends on your location. There are five weather models and each has a different grid and domain. Once you get to grib file(weather model) to meet you needs, then enter a decimal latitude and longitude position. It is very easy and fast process, but here are a few things you need to know. You can use a GPS or just estimate your lat/long position by using the weather charts. Enter the western hemisphere longitudes as a negative as well as southern latitudes. No letters like N, W, E, or S go in the inputs. 90 degrees west is entered as -90. 90 degrees east is just 90 for instance. The GLOBAL WAVEWATCHIII grid is 1.25 X 1.0. Latitudes increment at 1 degree intervals from 78 north to 78 south. Longitudes increment by 1.25 degrees starting at 0 going to 360 degrees around the world. If you enter 17.5 for a latitude, the program will round this off to 18. 1.0 degree interval for this global file. No land coverage from this file. Valid points usually start at 60NM offshore. GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEM (GFS), previously AVN & MRF, provides global data on a 1.0 X 1.0 grid from latitude 90 north to 90 south. It covers everywhere in the world including land points. The WWIII REGIONAL WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC(WNA) data covers the US east coast, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, and Central America from latitude 50 north to the equator and out to 30 west. It is .25 X .25 resolution meaning the points increment by .25 degrees. No coverage over land and valid points are usually 15NM offshore. The WWIII REGIONAL EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC(ENP) Pacific data cover the US west coast, Mexico, all Central America, and out to the Hawaiian Islands. It goes from 60 north to 5 north and extends out to 170 west. .25 X .25 resolution. Like WNA, no coverage over land and valid points are usually 15NM offshore. If you see error data or all zeros, it means the point is off the model grid you have chosen. |