User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1.Overview
- 2. Setting Up Your System
- 2.1Setting Up Map Layers
- 2.2Setting Up Display Levels (for clients without .psf mapping data)
- 2.3Adding Water-Fill Points (for clients without .psf mapping data)
- 2.4Fixing Floods with Anti-Fill Points (for clients without .psf mapping data)
- 2.5Editing the Places Database
- 2.6Adjusting the Color Palette
- 2.7Using the Baron Chart
- 2.8Editing Colors for 256-Color Palettes
- 2.9Customizing Font Displays
- 2.10Manipulating the Automatic Legend
- 2.11Using Overlays
- 2.12Setting Up Icons
- 2.13Points to Remember
- 3.Adjusting Views
- 3.1Using the View Main Panel
- 3.2Setting Map Parameters
- 3.3Editing Topographical Data
- 3.4Saving and Organizing Views
- 3.5Using the View Options
- 3.5.1Adding Text to a View
- 3.5.2Zooming In and Out From a View
- 3.5.3Pointing to Features on a View
- 3.5.4Panning on a View
- 3.5.5Labeling Streets with Street Spotter
- 3.5.6Controlling Display of Radar Data
- 3.5.7Utilizing TeleTrac
- 3.5.8Displaying Lightning Strikes on a View
- 3.5.9Displaying Storm Spotter( Van data
- 3.5.10Toggling High-Definition Data Processing
- 3.5.11Displaying NEXRAD forecast data
- 3.5.12Displaying Neighborhood Weather Net( Sensor Data
- 3.5.13Zooming to a Specific City
- 3.5.14Adding Fronts and Pressure Markers
- 3.5.15Creating Temporary Pixel Query Points
- 3.5.16Creating Fixed Pixel Query Points
- 3.5.17Displaying Precipitation Type Maps
- 3.5.18Saving the Current View as a Bitmap
- 3.5.19Printing the Current View
- 3.5.20Highlighting Your Spotter Network On-Air
- 3.5.21Displaying National Weather Service Warnings
- 3.5.22Displaying Wind Speed and Direction
- 3.6Points to Remember
- 4.Managing Storm Tracks
- 5.Using SEQUENCER
- 6.Controlling Your Radar
- Glossary
Adjusting Views
FasTrac Millennium User’s Guide – May 2003
3.5.22 Displaying Wind Speed and Direction
The Wind Display feature allows you to quickly show the speed and direction of winds at various
elevations over your broadcast area. The Rapid Update Cycle Model (RUC) provides wind data.
The RUC is an operational atmospheric prediction system comprising primarily of a numerical
forecast model and an analysis system to initialize that model. It serves users needing short-range
weather forecasts, including those in the U.S. aviation community.
Wind data will appear over any other data that you display and remains on screen until you
uncheck the Active button, even if you close the menu. Therefore, always remember to
uncheck Active before exiting the menu.
To begin using this feature, select Tools-3 > Wind display to open the Wind display menu.
• Active toggles the display of wind data. Wind markers such as the
one on the right appear, showing wind speed in the area they appear
over, at the height selected. A triangle indicates 50 knots, a long
line indicates 10 knots, and a short line indicates 5 knots. Adding up all of the
lines on a marker gives the wind speed. (The marker in the example indicates
65 knots total.)
• Show legend toggles a legend depicting colors for different
levels of wind speed. This legend is used in conjunction
with the Streamlines option, which is described below.
You can change the colors for the legend with
the Advanced Baron Chart (see section 6.3.3).
• The Thin lines option, when checked, removes
the black line from around the wind markers (or
streamlines if they are activated). This makes the
data update faster, but can make the markers harder to see.
• Streamlines changes the display to show the direction of the winds
as well as their speed. As shown in the example on the right, the
arrows indicate the direction in which wind is traveling along the
lines. The wind speed is indicated by the variations in color along
the lines, with the color values appearing in the legend.
• Rows and Columns affect the number of wind markers and
streamlines that appear on the screen. For example, if your Rows
and Columns boxes both have 10 entered, there will be 10 rows
and 10 columns of wind markers. Similarly, if Streamlines is
activated with 10 entered for both Rows and Columns, there will
be 100 total streamlines on the screen (10x10).
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