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1) GetRealtime.exe--automated retrieval, computation, and storage of real-time hydrological and meteorological
data available free on the web for continuous computations and simulations.
2) GetGraphs.exe--displaying a mix of the real-time data and web
screens and gifs by auto paging through screens the user has defined with auto
updating at regular intervals. Some may not be interested in the hydrological
graphs but can still make use of the automated web screens to display multiple
web browsers (up to 12 on one screen) on multiple pages with automated updating
and paging and each can be for browsing further. Also good for monitoring alot
of stuff like Plant Information Management and Quality Control databases with
alarms for any real-time time series database that needs an eyeball on things
now. Just light up that big screen TV monitor with GetGraphs when the boss
is around instead of the ball game.
3) GetAccess.exe--managing the real-time and historical data stored in an
MS Access database (the MS Access runtime can be downloaded for users not owning
MS Office).
GetRealtime 2.2.0's ... new look:
GetRealtime and GetGraphs’ example of many auto paging screens...
GetAccess for database management...
Who can make use of the information provided by the GetRealtime system:
1) Home owners and professionals watching local river flood conditions,
rainfall and computed runoff rates, radar loops, temperatures, and live webcams real-time.
2) Anyone wanting to automate viewing of several Web pages on one screen
or many such screens and automate their updating at regular intervals.
3) Farmers, golf course managers, and home owners wanting up to the
minute crop and lawn water requirements.
4) Environmentalists monitoring flow rates and water quality parameters.
5) Farmers monitoring snowpack depths, reservoir conditions, forecasts,
water availability reports, drought in other areas, crop prices, and global
satellite weather systems headed their way.
6) Quality Control via visual inspection of the real-time data being
provided.
7) The just plain curious wanting to set up a virtual weather station on
their computer screen and compare their thermometer with someone’s down the
road.
8) Skiers monitoring snow depths, weather forecasts, and webcams showing
conditions at all their favorite ski slopes.
9) Professionals wanting to display all their data real-time in their
operations war room on a big screen up on the wall as an excuse to get a big
flat screen TV and impress the boss and visitors.
10) Agricultural commodity traders trying to keep up with it all.
11) Local, County, and Federal fire fighters needing a record of areal average
rainfall for esitmating fire hazard pontential.
12) Agricultural irrigation districts or even a small farmer can outline
their district boundary and compute the 5-minute, hourly, and daily rainfall
amount averaged over their district and adjust their water order accordingly in
real time with out the cost of maintaining a network of rain gages. Combine this with Getrealtime’s
Penman-Monteith standard evapotranspiration computation and you have stepped
into the 21st Century and beyond.
13)
Personal weather station owners and data loggers wanting to store their text file output to a
database.
What real-time web data sources are made available by the GetRealtime
system without charge or registration:
1) Weather Underground’s thousands of weather stations around the world
providing info such as Temperature, Humidity, Wind Speed, Dew Point, and
Rainfall.
2) US Geological Survey’s thousands of stream flow, reservoir, and water
quality stations providing info such as Flow, Elevation, pH, Dissolved Oxygen,
Conductivity, Turbidity.
3) California Data Exchange Center providing both hydrological and
meteorological data from hundreds of state and federal sources through out
California.
4) US Conservation Service providing SNOTEL snowpack depths and other
meteorological data throughout the western US mountains.
5) US Bureau of Reclamation providing reservoir, meteorological, and
evapotranspiration data through out the Pacific Northwest and Great Plains
Regions of the US.
6) US Army Corps of Engineers providing reservoir and stream data through out the US.
7) California Irrigation and Management Information System providing
meteorological and evapotranspiration data at hundreds of sites through out
California.
8) NOAA Nexrad Doppler WSR-88D class radar imagery providing real time rainfall rates that are
converted to areal average rainfall amounts for anywhere in the USA.
9) Your personal weather station or other text
file data.
10) The World Wide Web providing screen shots and gifs such as weather
radar loops, webcams,
current assessments, current prices, and just about
everything else imaginable.
What kinds of computations can be made real-time during the GetRealtime retrieval:
1) Conversions such as Temp C to Temp F, gage height to elevation, and
metric to English or English to Metric.
2) Computation of stream flow from gage heights, gate openings, and such
with shifts applied with stage and time.
3) Convert rainfall, snowpack, reservoir contents to percent of normal.
4) Convert reservoir elevation to contents.
5) Computation of both tall(alfalfa) and short(grass) hourly reference ET
from Temp, Humidity and Wind Speed at Wunderground weather stations using
methods of the ASCE Standard Penman-Monteith with a special solar computation if
solar not available.
6) Compute crop and lawn water use from the computed reference ET.
7) Convert Dissolved Oxygen to percent saturation.
8) Convert conductivity to TDS.
9) Compute Absolute Humidity from Temp and RH.
10) Compute rainfall-runoff from weather station rainfall
or average of stations and display
routed and combined hydrographs.
11) Compute rainfall-runoff from NOAA Nexrad radar rainfall imagery and display
routed and combined hydrographs for continuous simulation.
12) Continuous snowpack and melt recod for realtime rainfall-runoff and display
of
routed and combined hydrographs for continuous simulation.
13) Or just about any computation you can put in the form of up to 5 equations
relating the multiple parameters being retrieved and can include date and time,
shifts, and conditionals for which to use.
System Requirements:
Microsoft Windows 98 or better... like XP, Vista, and Windows 7.
Please use these programs freely, but if you would like to remove the nag screen
on startup for GetGraphs and GetMapArea and keep me from starving then you will need a registration number
from here.
Some additional page links about
ET and Nexrad Radar help and comparisons:
List of How To Videos on Youtube
Help Page for GetNexrad.exe
Nexrad Rainfall to Tipping Bucket Comparison
ET and Radar Rainfall along the Lower Colorado
River, AZ-CA
Nexrad Rainfall-Runoff Comparison Las Vegas
Valley, NV
Nexrad
Rainfall-Runoff Comparison San Jouqin Valley, CA
Nexrad
Rainfall-Runoff Comparisons in northwestern Arizona
Nexrad Snowfall Comparisons in western
central Sierras, CA
About the webmaster:
10 years as flood and surface water records hydrologist with the US
Geological Survery.
20 years as hydraulic engineer and software modeler in flood and water supply
studies with the US Bureau of Reclamation. Currently just a terrible webmaster
(another Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express in over his head... but the price was right).
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