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	<title>A Weather Developer's Journey</title>
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	<description>An inside look at developing weather tools.</description>
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		<title>Satellite Map Projections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seasonality displays a IR composite satellite image that covers the whole globe.  Unfortunately, during the past few weeks, the previous source of this satellite image ceased to update.  It was time to write my own program to create a composite image.
The toughest part of this process (at least for us non-GIS types) is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.weatherdeveloper.com/2010/04/29/satellite-map-projections/</link>
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		<title>Thailand Meteorology Department</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Note:  I wrote this entry a couple of weeks before actually posting it.
I&#8217;ve been spending this past month in Thailand as part of a Rotary Group Study Exchange team.  It&#8217;s both a cultural and vocational exchange, and you can read more about our experiences at the team&#8217;s blog.
Today (March 26th), I toured the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.weatherdeveloper.com/2009/04/06/thailand-meteorology-department/</link>
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		<title>GRIB2 Migration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I started having a problem with the previous GFS forecast data source I was using for Seasonality forecasts.  Just as a bit of background, Seasonality will download forecasts for U.S. locations from the NWS&#8217;s NDFD service.  For locations outside the U.S., I have to get the data from somewhere [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.weatherdeveloper.com/2008/01/31/grib2-migration/</link>
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		<title>Populated Places</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When developing weather software, one of the most important pieces of data you will work with is a location list.  A weather application is useless if the user can&#8217;t find a city and download weather data for it.  There are several different methods users might want to be able to search for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.weatherdeveloper.com/2007/11/02/populated-places/</link>
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		<title>Precipitation Intensity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I revisited the code on the Seasonality forecast server that decides on precipitation intensity.  I.E., how much rain does it take to have a drizzle, light rain, moderate rain, or heavy rain?  This is forecasted in 12 hour blocks, and I take the sum of precipitation over that time frame to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.weatherdeveloper.com/2007/08/31/precipitation-intensity/</link>
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		<title>90 Meter Elevation Data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To generate an international forecast for Seasonality, I take in a GeoPoint and find the 4 closest surrounding data points from the GFS Forecast model.  The GFS data is 0.5 degree resolution, so if I had a location at point 50.2° latitude, 30.8° longitude, I would use the following data points when generating the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.weatherdeveloper.com/2007/08/17/90-meter-elevation-data/</link>
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		<title>Welcome!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Welcome to the weather developer blog.  I wanted to start up this site both as a resource for developers working on weather software, and as a site for weather geeks who wish to know more about what goes onbehind the scenes.
Getting the ball rolling on Seasonality 2.0 development, in the coming months I will have several topics [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.weatherdeveloper.com/2007/08/16/welcome/</link>
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