User's Manual

FutureWaves™ User Manual
FutureWaves™ v1.7.0.1
15
Spectral Wave Bulletins
The
2DPS
display can display forecasts published as spectral wave bulletins. This allows users
to easily visualize wave forecasts more than a week in the future. NOAA calculates wave
spectra forecasts for several ocean locations several times per day. For instance the Beryl A
AWS platform (station 63110) forecast.
(http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/WEB/multi_1.latest_run/plots/multi_1.63110.bull)
The buoy nearest Tanapan harbor is bulletin id 52211.
To display a wave bulletin, first download a wave bulletin from the NOAA site and upload it into
FutureWaves™ using the USB hub provided. The connection is located underneath the display
shelf next to the display power switch. Move to the
General tab
inside the
Control & Settings
Panel
. Select ‘Buoy’ from the drop down box next to ‘Planning Source’ in the Settings section
(refer to Figure 14). If file extension is not “.bull”, then select ‘All Files’ from ‘Files of Type’.
Once you have selected a wave bulletin, click ‘Open’.
Figure 14: Selecting ‘Buoy’ as the ‘Planning Source’ in the
General Tab
in the
Control &
Settings Panel
Return to the
Planning
panel. Once loaded into FutureWaves™, each forecast contained within
the bulletin is selectable from a dropdown that will appear in the upper-right corner of the
2DPS
display. “NOAA BUOY” is displayed below the drop down. The forecast reference time is
displayed in the center of the panel and the position of the forecast is displayed in the upper-left
corner. This 2DPS displaying a wave bulletin forecast is displayed in Figure 15.