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This is great, I'd love to have dive visibility predictions for my webapp based on location: https://divedb.net/ https://divedb.net/ The challenge I've had is
by cetra3 5y ago
This is great, I'd love to have dive visibility predictions for my webapp based on location: https://divedb.net/ https://divedb.net/
The challenge I've had is the same, the data format that a lot of these sources provide is in "academic" formats like GRIB, NetCDF etc.. and I've spent a not-insignificant amount of time trying to work through all these formats and what they represent.
- meteo-jeff 5y agoDo you know an open-data source for ocean visibility data? I want to integrate regular wave forecasts in the next month, but I am unaware of something that can improve dive visibility.
- cetra3 5y agoDive visibility is actually quite hard to forecast (at least in the areas I dive) and I don't know if there have been empirical studies on it. Anecdotally I find it's best when the wind is offshore and there is low tidal movement. But there are other factors at play, such as rainfall, etc.. This is one source I found (for wave height): https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/data/products.html https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/data/products.html, however it was not clear on the website whether it was paid or not. Another one I had a poke around with: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/wmo-essential https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/wmo-essential (trying to read Grib2)
- mhb_eng 5y agoDepending on where you are located, there are a number of oceanographic near-shore buoys that provide reasonable data access, but they are highly concentrated near the coastal US. https://cdip.ucsd.edu/m/documents/data_access.html https://cdip.ucsd.edu/m/documents/data_access.html