Tag Archives: web

Solar wind visualization at NOAA SWPC

George Millward and his colleagues at the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) use IDL, among other tools, to study, monitor and forecast solar events that impact GPS, power grids and communications networks on Earth. On the WSA-Enlil Solar Wind … Continue reading

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Docs Center update

A quick note: the Exelis VIS Documentation Center (www.exelisvis.com/docs) has been updated with the IDL 8.2.2 Help content. Please check out some of these new/improved entries: What’s New in IDL 8.2.2 IDL Tips and Tricks (Please feel free to add your … Continue reading

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Updated snow water equivalent map

Last January, I posted a link to the daily snow water equivalent (SWE) map created by Andrew Slater at NSIDC. He’s since updated his website to include maps of SNOTEL stations throughout the western U.S., as well as climatology plots … Continue reading

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IDL Help on the web

I have been waiting for this moment for more than 10 years. I’m very happy to announce that the Exelis VIS Documentation Center: http://www.exelisvis.com/docs is now live and hosting the IDL Help on the web. Now, when I’d like to show … Continue reading

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Sending email from IDL

(Note: This is a guest post from Eduardo Iturrate, who is not only a director of sales at Exelis VIS, but he’s also an IDL master: he created RevolutionIDL, the Source Code Generator for Beginners, Katalog, the ENVI Program Generator … Continue reading

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A snow water equivalent map for Colorado

Andrew Slater, a research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, has a website that maps daily changes in snow water equivalent over Colorado, using a shell script for data retrieval and IDL for visualization. Dr. Slater … Continue reading

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