Graphical display (METRo)

From Documentation

This article contains a graphical representation of the road forecast made by METRo. The code to create the images from the METRo output is distributed under a GPL license and can be found on the ViX article.

The current example is a roadcast for February 6-7 2005 for a station in Ontario located at:

• Latitude: 46.33743
• Longitude: -84.01036

Files used for this roadcast can be found here:

• Atmospheric forecast
• Station observation
• Station configuration
• Roadcast

Contents 1 Roadcast 2 Flux 3 Wind speed 4 Road condition

[edit] Roadcast

The legend is :

• Blue: road temperature;
• Red: air temperature;
• Green: dew point;
• Yellow triangle: Sunrise and sunset time for this location.
• Cloud cover: The bold line at the top of the graph shows the cloud cover for the forecast time. Clouds value from 1 to 8 have been mapped to grey shades, 1 for light grey and 8 for black. Cloud value 0 has been mapped to clear blue, as we can see at the top right of the graph.

[edit] Flux

The legend is :

• Orange: Solar flux;
• Red: Infra-red flux;
• Light sky blue: Vapor flux;
• Lime green:Sensible heat;
• Black:Black body;
• Purple:Phase change;
• Peachpuff: Anthropogenic flux;
• Gray:Total.
• Yellow triangle: Sunrise and sunset time for this location.

[edit] Wind speed

[edit] Road condition

METRo I/O files

Station | Observation | Forecast | Roadcast | Configuration

METRo I/O specification

Schema | | Flowchart | Format | Date | Observation QA/QC | Road condition | Station type | Time zone | Layer type | Latitude and longitude

METRo I/O examples

Station | Observation | Forecast | Roadcast | Graphical display

This page is part of the documentation of the METRo software. Back to the table of content.