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New SHOWCast Release: v 2.5.0

Please download SHOWCast v.2.5.1 here.

GOES-16 Full Disk RGB’s processed and visualized with SHOWCast 2.5
GOES-16 Full Disk RGB’s processed and visualized with SHOWCast 2.5
  • Processing and visualization of all 16 CMIPF bands:

Processing and visualization of all 16 CMIPF bands: All 16 GOES-16 CMIPF bands are processed and visualized in this new version. Users may select which band, resolution, sub-region and interval they would like to process.

>All 16 GOES-16 CMIPF bands
All 16 GOES-16 CMIPF bands processed and visualized with SHOWCast 2.5
  • Processing and visualization of 20 GOES-16 RGB’s:

20 GOES-16 RGB’s are processed and visualized in this new version. Users may select which RGB, resolution, sub-region and interval they would like to process.

SHOWCast 2.5
GOES-16 RGB’s (cylindrical equidistant projection) processed and visualized with SHOWCast 2.5
  • Processing and visualization of the JPSS vegetation products:

4 JPSS vegetation products are processed and visualized in this new version.

Green Vegetation Fraction, NDVI (TOA), DVI (TOC) and EVI (TOC)
Green Vegetation Fraction, NDVI (TOA), NDVI (TOC) and EVI (TOC) processed with Python and displayed with SHOWCast 2.5. Users may select the region of interest for each product.
JPSS Green Vegetation Freaction (GVF)
JPSS Green Vegetation Freaction (GVF) processed and visualized with SHOWCast 2.5
  • New GFS composite added by user request:

A new GFS composite was added to the visualzation menu by user request (PSML + 10m Wind > 10kt + Total Cloud Cover + Total Precipitation (3h) + 500-1000 hPa Thickness).

GFS composite: PSML + 10m Wind
GFS composite: PSML + 10m Wind > 10kt + Total Cloud Cover + Total Precipitation (3h) + 500-1000 hPa Thickness processed and visualized with SHOWCast 2.5
  • New image format (WebP):

SHOWCast now works with the WebP format (instead of using PNG’s as on previous versions). The WebP format has the same quality of the PNG format, with a file size reduction of 30% – 80% depending on the image. Thus, the menus and animations load faster in comparison to previous versions.

  • Possible to choose which interval to plot (all GOES-R products):

Suppose you want to plot an specific GOES-R product every hour, or every 30 minutes only. Now it’s possible! For each GOES-R product, users may select which time steps they want to plot, giving users more options to adapt the processing according to the available hardware.

Selecting which time steps will be processed for a given product
  • Optimized Cloud Module:

When using the Cloud module (for AWS os UNIDATA), now the files are stored in a “tmp” directory during the download. When the download is finished, the file is moved from the “tmp” file to the final destination, as configured by the user. This avoids triggering the processing scripts with incomplete files.

Please find below the procedure to install SHOWCast v 2:

Please find below previous posts about SHOWCast: