A few thoughts from a geographer (be prepared to shoot me): - Basically every comment is wowed by this, but nobody questions what the accuracy is. I, too, can Krig interpolated surfaces to any resolution. - off-nadir view doesn't seem to offer much - We've been dealing with janky tile loading for like 20 years now. I really hope we'll get a much smoother approach for viewing these tiles as they load. The dissolve tra…
This seems to be a thing with weather models more generally. Somewhat relatedly, I've spent quite a bit of time evaluating weather models for use in India and Africa, and while predictions are easy to find, validation results for the predictions are very hard to find. And when you do find them, the results are pretty poor, with many models performing worse than if you would say "predict temperature on date X to be th…
My grad thesis advisor encouraged me to actually get the Environment Canada models and learn how to run them (they're in FORTRAN). I could never make them spit out data consistent with what EC publishes. That's probably on me, but it was a real eye-opener to this whole domain's complexity.