The slides of todays NOAA/PSD seminar talk about how to make effective use of colors in scientific visualizations are now online. Read More ›
research presentation

The slides of the NOAA/PSD seminar talk are now available for download for those interested. The seminar talk gives/gave a short introduction to the standardized anomaly model output statistics approach and some insights of an application on high-resolution new snow amount forecasts in the Austrian Alps. Read More ›
research presentation

Skewed logistic distribution for statistical temperature post-processing in mountainous areas

This study shows the use and benefits of having a skewed response distribution rather than a symmetric one for ensemble post-processing of near surface temperature in Central Europe. A small adjustment which can strongly improve the predictive performance in alpine areas where the current ensemble forecast systems miss some of the wintery cold pools and overadiabatic heating of the valley atmosphere. Read More ›
research techreport · workingpaper

Scripts to plot GFS/GENS meteograms

There was an issue regarding the latest version of Pydap used to download the latest GFS/GENS weather forecasts via OpenDAP. I used this opportunity to fix some small things and to update the installation guidelines. Read More ›
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Working paper by Lisa Schlosser online

New working paper by my college Lisa Schlosser is online now using distributional forests for probabilistic precipitation forecasts over complex terrain. The article introduces the novel statistical method and a real-world example for Tyrol, Austria. Read More ›
research techreport · workingpaper

Hourly snow forecasts over complex terrain.

Just in time (before all the snow melts in front of the office) the new working paper/tech report became available. The paper is about a new hybrid approach to create high-resolution forecasts of fresh snow amounts and/or snowfall over Tyrol, Austria. Read More ›
research techreport · workingpaper

Short guide how to download ECMWF ERA INTERIM data

The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) provides some nice data sets to the public. One data set is the ERA INTERIM reanalysis data set. In combination with the ECMWF python API it is quite easy to download these data. This post gives a short introduction and an example script how specify a specific subset and download the data. Read More ›
code code · python · data

Handy GFS reforecast V2 downloader (Python)

I as a meteorologist am often confronted with grib files, a binary file format for gridded data (e.g., weather forecasts). I've put my R package **getgrib** online if someone needs easy access to grib1/grib2 data. The package is far away from beeing finished, however, try it out :). Read More ›
software python

HCLwizard.org: New shiny application to check your images for color issues!

A new feature was just released on HCLwizard.org. The HCLconverter allows to upload an existing png/jpg/jpeg image and check for possible color-blindness issues. The uploaded image will be converted to different color-blind vision. Have a look before you publish! Read More ›
news news · hclwizard

Efficiently reading grib1/grib2 data from R

I as a meteorologist am often confronted with grib files, a binary file format for gridded data (e.g., weather forecasts). I've put my R package *getgrib* online if someone needs easy access to grib1/grib2 data. The package is far away from beeing finished, however, try it out :). Read More ›
code code · R

Some repositories moved to github for convenience

For convenience I've moved some of my repositories to github. The repository URLs can be found on this website whenever there is one! Read More ›
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Hope being live in autumn!

For those grown up in a meteorological department in Innsbruck, Vienna, Zürich, Leipzig and Berlin the Wetterturnier should be well known. It is a platform where people challenge each other doing the best possible weather forecast for the upcoming weekend! As the existing system is getting old and buggy I've designed a new system over the last years (took quite a while!). However we are in the test phase right now! Read More ›
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Parallelization with Python

If you have a bunch of smaller jobs you have to go trough you might think of parallelization. While some software offers native parallel execution many do not. Python offers a very simple way to parallelize OpenMP jobs (no shared memory). An example. Read More ›
code code · python