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Displaying Buoy
Data in a Weather Producer Graphic Product
1. In your Weather
Producer, select New -> Product -> Graphic -> Composite. Enter
a name for the product and click OK.
2. Click the right mouse button (RMB) on the product icon and select Edit Parameters.
3. Click the left mouse button (LMB) on the bottom layer and select Edit. Choose
the snapshot you wish to use for a background image. It should be a map
localized to the area you wish to highlight. Click the Close button when
you have selected the desired snapshot.
4. In the Parameters for Product window, click the Add button to add another
layer to the product. Click the LMB on the new layer and select New -> Automatic
Plot.
5. At the top of the Automatic Plot window, select Options -> Background
-> Snapshot. Find the same snapshot that you selected for the bottom layer
of the product. Highlight the snapshot, click OK and then click the Close button.
6. At the bottom of the Automatic Plot window, click on the Add button and
select Weather Text. In the Stations dialog that appears, click on the
Master Station List button. The Master Station List dialog will appear.
- In the ID Types
section on the right-hand side, select “Primary.”
- In the Locations
section, click on the “Specify country code” radio button.
Enter “UU” in the text field (without the quotes) and
hit Return
- In the Data Types
section, select the All Data Types radio button.
You will see a list
of all reporting buoys in the list on the left-hand side of the dialog
box. Select all the buoys in the list by clicking on the first one,
scrolling down to the bottom of the list, holding down the Shift key,
and clicking on the last one. Click on the Add button at the bottom
of the dialog; then click the Close button.
All of the buoys you just selected have been added into the Station dialog.
You may save this list to use in another product by using the Save button at
the top of the dialog; otherwise, click OK to close this dialog. You will see
the buoys you selected added to the Automatic Plot window.
7. At the bottom
of the Automatic Plot window, click on the Select All toggle.
8. Click on the Weather button to open the Weather dialog box. In the Weather
Data Source section, select the following:
- Decoded Data from
the list on the left-hand side
- SM Report from
the list on the right-hand side
In the Data Type
section, scroll down to select the data you wish to view. Some of the
interesting options include:
-
Water
Temperature
-
Pressure
reduced to MSL
-
Wind
Speed
-
Wind
Direction
-
Wave
Height
-
Primary
Swell Height
-
Primary
Swell Direction
From the pull-down
menu next to the list of available data types, select the units that
you wish to use. After you have completed all the settings in this
dialog, click Apply and Close.
9. In the Parameters
for Product window, click the Update Now button. The product will
update, displaying the data for the buoys that you selected.
The instructions
detailed above will add every reporting buoy within the geographic
area defined by the snapshot to your graphic product. This may produce
too many reporting stations for your product. If you would like to
individually select the buoys to add to your product, you may do
so using the geographic text query.
Finding
Buoy Identifiers Using a Geographic Text Query
1. In your Weather Producer, select New -> Product -> Graphic ->Composite.
Enter a name for the product and click OK.
2. Click the RMB on the product icon and select Edit Parameters.
3. Click the LMB on the bottom layer and select Edit. Select a snapshot that
will display a large area of the globe – for example, a map of
North America or of the Tropical Atlantic/Pacific. Click the Close button
when you have selected the desired snapshot.
4. Click Update Now to update the product. You will see the selected snapshot
in the product window.
5. In the menus at the top of the product window, select Options -> Geographic
Text Query. The geographic text query window will pop up.
6. Select the Edit Parameters button at the bottom of the window, which will
pop up the Geographic Text Query window. In this dialog:
Accept the default
settings under Data Type – Raw Text and Text Strings.
7. Click on the Close
button. In the main product window, a yellow diamond will appear at
the location of every reporting buoy on the map that you have selected.
Move the mouse in
the product window so that the cursor is directly over the buoy you
wish to query, and click on the RMB. The geographic text query box
will pop forward, with information from that buoy. The first line of
the report will begin with the buoy identifier, right before the date
(e.g. B46002). You may query as many of the buoys as you like, taking
note of the identifiers. These identifiers may be directly entered
into the Master Station List to create a subset of the buoys you wish
to query on a consistent basis in a graphic or text product.
Adding Buoy
Data to Showfx
It is also possible
to add buoy data to Showfx. However, since there are many buoys reporting
across the northern hemisphere, it is best to use the Geographic Text
Query in Weather Producer to find the identifiers of only the buoys
you wish to display. Adding all of the buoys to a scene is not recommended,
as there are too many for Showfx to process them in a timely fashion.
1. Create a Showfx
scene with a snapshot background. Alternatively, you can add a planar
or spherical earth.
2. Select Add -> Weather -> Text.
3. In the Add Station ID box, type in the buoy identifiers. In order to maximize
performance, WSI suggests adding no more than ten buoys at a time to a
scene. After you have typed in all of the desired buoy identifiers, click
OK at the bottom of the dialog box. The Weather dialog box will appear.
4. Using the Time Spec pull-down menu, select the desired time period. We recommend
Most Recent in order to receive timely data.
5. In the Weather Data Source section, select the following:
- Decoded Data from
the list on the left-hand side
- SM Report from
the list on the right-hand side
6. In the Data Types
section, select the desired data type, along with the correct units
and format.
7. Click OK. The weather text is added to the scene
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