by Steve Gifford | Apr 23, 2024 | Data
Open source is integral to meteorology, particularly for data processing. There are free packages to read everything from GRIB to Nexrad messages, and even up-and-coming formats like Zarr focus on open source. We can credit NOAA for that open attitude in large part....
by Steve Gifford | Apr 17, 2024 | Other
Ah, spring, when a young startup’s idle thoughts turn to…. hiring their first direct salesperson. We are considering hiring a salesperson in the next year or so. If the right person finds us, we could do it sooner. Wet Dog What? We’re a...
by Steve Gifford | Apr 8, 2024 | Data
At Wet Dog Weather, our data management consists of primarily moving data around, particularly weather data. We get new data sets every few minutes or hours and process them for rapid display. Once you have all that weather data neatly organized and easily accessible,...
by Steve Gifford | Apr 2, 2024 | Boxer
We do weather data visualization—fast, interactive, and beautiful visualization. Terrier does the front-end work on the web or mobile, and Boxer does the cloud processing to make it all work. However, today, we are offering a new product: BoxerSDK. Using Boxer+Terrier...
by Steve Gifford | Mar 26, 2024 | Data, MapLibre, Terrier
Terrier’s web version, our front-end display toolkit, has a lot going on—data transfer, reprojection, resampling, and WebGL data shaders, to name some—but using it is pretty straightforward. Getting Started with Terrier: Weather Mapping Basics Here’s how...