Operational models, dual-polarization radar, satellite, and a full sounding toolkit in one synced multi-pane display. Inspired by AWIPS CAVE, the workstation National Weather Service forecasters work in every day.
WAVE renders named, operational data: the GFS and HRRR from NOAA / NCEP, the ECMWF, NEXRAD Level II and MRMS radar, GOES-East and GOES-West imagery, GLM lightning, and official NWS watches and warnings. No blended black box. You see the model, the run, and the field, by name.
Pick a field from menus organized the way forecasters work: Surface, Upper Air, Models, Obs, Hazards. Load it onto a pane and WAVE pulls the latest run for you, so you are always on current data.
Link the panes: pan one and the rest follow, with a shared crosshair marking the same spot in every pane. Zoom stays independent, so a regional view can sit next to a storm-scale view of the same system.
Press play and every pane animates in lockstep (a loop, in forecaster terms), or loop a single pane alone. Step one frame at a time when you want to slow a system down.
WAVE names the model, exposes the run, and lets you interrogate the data. That is the line between a professional tool and a consumer app.
NOAA's global GFS, the storm-scale HRRR, and the ECMWF, ingested run by run. Curated menus cover the fields you reach for first; the Field Browser opens every parameter the run carries.
One, two, four, or a six-pane 3×2 grid. Linked panning and a shared crosshair keep every pane on the same spot while each holds its own zoom. Stage extra views on the five-slot side rail and swap them in.
A national MRMS mosaic that hands off to single-site NEXRAD Level II as you zoom in. Dual-polarization products at the radar's native detail, with GOES GeoColor, infrared, and visible alongside.
Hover any model layer for live values; click to lock a point and get a time series across the loop. Drop pins, measure distance, project a storm path, and export any pane as an MP4 clip.
Three operational models, each with its own job. WAVE shows you which one you are viewing, when it ran, and every field the run carries.
The workhorse global model and the baseline for medium-range pattern work. Run it next to the ECMWF and watch how the two solutions converge, or don't, run over run.
Storm-scale guidance refreshed every hour, fine enough to resolve individual thunderstorms. The model to loop against live Level II radar on a severe weather day.
The medium-range benchmark, widely regarded as the top-performing global model. The one you check the GFS against before you commit to a forecast.
The Field Browser lists every parameter each run carries as it lands in the feed, with pressure levels from 1000 mb up to 100 mb and precipitation windows from 1 to 120 hours. Next on the model roadmap: the National Blend of Models (NBM) and the GEFS ensemble.
Plan-view maps show you where. Soundings and cross-sections show you why. WAVE builds both from the same model grids you are looking at.
Right-click anywhere on a model pane and WAVE builds a full Skew-T log-p sounding from that model at the forecast hour on screen. Move through the run and watch the profile evolve.
Every sounding comes with a hodograph colored by height layer and the numbers you would compute by hand: parcel indices, bulk shear, and moisture depth, updated as you step the forecast.
Click point A, click point B, and WAVE slices the model along your line: a shaded height-by-distance section with wind barbs, steppable through the forecast hours.
Real radiosonde launches from sites across the U.S. and Caribbean, on the same Skew-T display as the model profiles. Check the 00Z or 12Z balloon against what the model thinks, apples to apples.
Stack observations and hazards over any model field, on any pane, synced to the loop.
National mosaic to single-site detail, automatically.
GOES-East and GOES-West, frame-synced.
The convective picture before and during the event.
Ground truth and the basin-scale view.
A scaled-down replica of the workspace, with several products wired to real console output. Click a pane to select it, then load a product from the menus. The full console adds live data, looping, and every product in the catalog.
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