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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’d rather not have to have an example of what not to do

Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Awesome! ncview-rs is meant to be a quick way to view and explore. I feel like the geospatial tools are proliferating quickly! I’ll have to check out rangefinder too!

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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

LLMs have their place but they still can’t replace everything we need. And this tool also does GRIB2, Kerchunk/vitualizarr, and soon ZARR.

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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Overkill for most applications where you need to inspect and view quickly (let alone cheaply). Also not every machine is allowed to have the data analyzed by Claude etc let alone have data freely passed. This is a first order tool to quickly inspect the file.

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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Was able to create some docs for this utility. Simple and direct but it should help users as well. bbakernoaa.github.io/ncview-rs

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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Modern colormaps, basic statistics, zoom capabilities, AND NO X11!!!!

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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It also includes the ability to export images in png and svg

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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It handles netcdf, grib2, streaming from s3, gcs and azure, and icechunk/kerchunk manifests. Zarr stores coming soon.

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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I mean cmon they got this 🙄

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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Would be interesting to see what the weighted percentage of people who lost SNAP benefits per state population.

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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

When do they start? I need to renew

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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The NOAA UV forecast also includes prognostic aerosol effects utilizing GEFS-Aerosol member @nws.noaa.gov

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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Try grib2io github.com/noaa-mdl/gri...

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Tom Gill @tomgillpredicts.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

WHO technical brief: Understanding the health impacts of sand and dust storms. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2025 (Air Quality, Energy and Health Science and Policy Summaries). doi.org/10.2471/B09453

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Understanding the health impacts of sand and dust storms: technical brief

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Clark Evans @clarkevanswx.github.io · 22/11/2025

After many long months, I’m excited to announce: we’re hiring! GSL through CIRES is looking to hire a land-surface model developer. Come join us in developing the next generation of storm-scale NWP for NOAA & community! Closes 12/12, pls contact me w/ questions. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

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CIRES / NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Land Surface Modeler

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Christa Hasenkopf @christahasenkopf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

On my way to San Francisco, excited to share about one of the world’s largest - but quietest AND solvable - public health crises, air pollution, at the Masters of Scale Summit! And I’ve got these nifty ‘dots’ to help illustrate the issue. If you are there, check them out!!

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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

ARL is also planned to get chopped. They develop the module used for nuclear dispersion, volcanoes, chemical spills and the like.

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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Is this the IMPROVE network? I really hope not

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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It’s critical imo that we reach people as quickly and effectively as possible, especially in hazardous conditions.

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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

BTW by improve I mean drive better interfaces and service mainly driven FROM the private sector. Still I believe it’s NOAAs mission to provide its services where the public can get it to protect life and property. In this day and age the average citizen looks at their phone.

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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I’ve asked this same question to the WPO and basically was fed something like “We don’t do this so that private companies can do it.” Counter intuitive imho. Would be good to provide it officially and it doesn’t by any means prevent the private sector from doing so. In fact it would probably improve

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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

A few colleagues wrote that one. Way overlooked on the amount of damage these events can bring.

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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The story by Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social for EOS @eos.org about our study showing the eye-popping cost of over $150 billion per year for the effects of wind erosion and windborne dust is now online. eos.org/articles/wil...

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Will Its $154 Billion Price Tag Keep Dust from Being Swept Under the Rug? - Eos

Data from 2017 show that costs associated with dust were second only to hurricanes when comparing billion-dollar disasters.

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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Currently there are three different models, UFS AQM (regional full air quality model), GEFS-Aerosol (global aerosol model), and HYSPLIT are all operational. UFS AQM and GEFS both use the FENGSHA dust model developed by yours truly. RRFS-SD, soon to be implemented, will also include FENGSHA at 3km!!

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BBURNED_science @bburnedscience.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Our inter-journal special issue on Biomass burning uncertainties: emissions, chemistry, and physics is now open for paper submissions at agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...! Please consider this special-issue when submitting any biomass burning research to @agu.org journals (see thread).

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Tom Gill @tomgillpredicts.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Here's a piece in Forbes by @drshepherd2013.bsky.social about our recent study on the economic impact to the USA of dust storms and wind erosion. www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

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The U.S. Is Dustier — It’s Costing $154 Billion A Year

A new study says dust storms and wind erosion are costing the U.S. economy $154 billion per year. Here's why.

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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This is a terrible casualty of these policies (one of many)

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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · 11/02/2025

"[The removal of public data has] real world consequences, leaving individuals, families, communities, and policymakers alike without access to secure, reliable federal data that they have paid for and expect to use."

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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I have a poster on Tuesday and Wednesday and a talk at the NOAA booth on Wednesday afternoon.

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