isobars from metars?
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That you would believe?
You can get isobars from NOAA, on much finer grids than METARs would sample. These are data assimilation products, and will agree with observations to within measurement error. That's mostly satellite data, but balloons and other observations are also used.
There is no way on God's green earth you can sample terrain and smaller body of water effects with METARs.
You can get isobars from NOAA, on much finer grids than METARs would sample. These are data assimilation products, and will agree with observations to within measurement error. That's mostly satellite data, but balloons and other observations are also used.
There is no way on God's green earth you can sample terrain and smaller body of water effects with METARs.
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"Objective frontal analysis" turned out to be the thing I was looking for:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1017/S1350482701002079/pdf
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1017/S1350482701002079/pdf