Any good sites for meteorological data files?
 

Hi all

I am trying to improve my Fortran skills, and so am looking for files
containing meteorological data that I can fiddle with, and practice
reading/writing data. (Well, any data files would do really, but
meteorological ones might make the mundane task of programming
slightly more enjoyable!)

Does anyone know any good sites where I can access such free data?

Cheers,

Liam
From an almost permanently cloudy Milton Keynes

Any good sites for meteorological data files?
 

On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:17:57 -0700 (PDT)
Sir Loin Steak wrote:

Hi all

I am trying to improve my Fortran skills, and so am looking for files
containing meteorological data that I can fiddle with, and practice
reading/writing data. (Well, any data files would do really, but
meteorological ones might make the mundane task of programming
slightly more enjoyable!)

I've got a few that came from someone in this parish, but don't
know their distribution status. (I used AWK to analyse them -- good
tool for that job.)

However, if it's just some data to practice on, why not sign up for
a Seti-at-Home account and use the data files downloaded at regular
intervals?

You'll have to write your own XML parser, and then dig into the binary
part of the data, which I'm confident is documented somewhere. Some might
call this enjoyable :-/ Nowadays I wouldn't really want to use
Fortran for this sort of exercise, despite Fortran II being the first
programming language I used as a student. (That's 2, not 11, let alone
2008.)

Alternatively, I can supply you, gratis, with accelerometer data from
my Android phone, for which I need a low-pass filter to separate
road-induced noise and the chip's own jitter from steering input and
resulting effect on bicycle behaviour. When the long-awaited shipment
of Tuits arrives I'll be doing this in Python...


Mike

Any good sites for meteorological data files?
 

"Mike Causer" wrote in message
news:20110729234844.1891dcea@surya...
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:17:57 -0700 (PDT)
Sir Loin Steak wrote:

Hi all

I am trying to improve my Fortran skills, and so am looking for files
containing meteorological data that I can fiddle with, and practice
reading/writing data. (Well, any data files would do really, but
meteorological ones might make the mundane task of programming
slightly more enjoyable!)

Hi, you can play around with
http://www.lyneside.demon.co.uk/Hayt...c/downld08.txt which is
updated each day. No charge :-)
Warning though - programming can become addictive, I've programmed in
FORTRAN now for over 40 years and I still enjoy it!

Cheers,

Will
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