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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
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content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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content="Mozilla/4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-34smp i686) [Netscape]">
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<title>Editing Actions</title>
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<font color="#3333ff"><font size="+4">Editing actions</font></font>
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<br>
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<p><a name="InterpolateGaps"></a><font color="#3333ff"><font size="+2">Perform
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an interpolation based on "Gaps".</font></font>
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</p>
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<p><font color="#330000">To interpolate based on "Gaps", first you must
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select the time range over which you wish to interpolate. Move
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the
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cursor into the Grid Manager over the weather element you wish to
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interpolate.
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Move the cursor to the start time of the time range you wish to
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interpolate
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and press MB1 and drag to define the selected time range. See the
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section,
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<a href="GFETrainingGridMgr.html#SelectWEandTimeRange">Select
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Weather Element and TimeRange</a> for more information. Once this time
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range is defined, select </font><font color="#ff0000">Grids->Interpolate...</font><font
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color="#330000">,
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from the GFE's Main Menu. The <a
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href="MainMenuDialogs.html#InterpolateDialog">Interpolate
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Dialog</a> pops up. Choose "By Gaps". You should see new grids
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appear
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within the time range that you selected earlier. See the section,
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<a href="GFETrainingGridMgr.html#InterpolateGrids">Interpolate
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Grids</a> for more information.</font>
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</p>
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<p><a name="InterpolateEditedGrids"></a><font color="#3333ff">Perform
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an
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interpolation based on "Edited Data". What needs to be done before
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executing
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this action?</font>
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</p>
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<p><font color="#330000">Before you can interpolate based on edited
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data,
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you must first edit some of the grids or else no interpolation will be
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performed. To accomplish this, edit at least two grids in the
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GFE.
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Select these grid with the steps described in the section <a
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href="GFETrainingGridMgr.html#SelectWEandTimeRange">Select
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Weather Element and TimeRange</a>. Then from the Main Menu select
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</font><font color="#ff0000">Grids->Interpolate...</font><font
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color="#330000">.
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The <a href="MainMenuDialogs.html#InterpolateDialog">Interpolate Dialog</a>
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pops up. Choose "Based on Edited Data". You should see grid
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appear
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only in the time period between the grids that you edited. Try
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this
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operation on a set of grids that have not been edited. Note that
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no new grids appear and an error message appears at the bottom of the
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GFE.</font>
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</p>
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<p><a name="AdjustGrid"></a><font color="#3333ff"><font size="+2">Adjust
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the values for an entire grid by a specified amount.</font></font>
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</p>
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<p><font color="#330000">To adjust a the value in a grid, select that
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grid
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in the Grid Manager. That will make the grid "editable".
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Next
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open the <a href="ButtonBarDialogs.html#EditActionsDialog">Edit
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Actions
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Dialog</a> by clicking with MB1 on the icon labeled with the large "E"
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located in the Button Bar. From this dialog set the Delta Value
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by
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selecting "</font><font color="#ff0000">Delta Value...</font><font
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color="#330000">"
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and entering any value you choose. Close the <a
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href="ButtonBarDialogs.html#DeltaValueDialog">Delta
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Value Dialog</a>. Now from the Edit Actions Dialog select </font><font
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color="#ff0000">Adjust
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Value Up</font><font color="#330000"> or </font><font color="#ff0000">Adjust
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Value Down</font><font color="#330000">. You may see a message
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dialog
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warning you that you are about to edit the entire grid. If so,
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select
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"</font><font color="#ff0000">Yes</font><font color="#330000">" and
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note
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that all of the values for the grid that you selected were changed by
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the
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amount that you specified.</font>
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</p>
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<p><a name="AdjustWindSpeed"></a><font color="#3333ff"><font size="+2">Adjust
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the wind speeds for an entire grid by a specified amount.</font></font>
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</p>
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<p><font color="#330000">Adjusting the wind speed values for a grid
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works
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just like any other grid. Select the grid you wish to edit in the
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Grid Manager with a MB1 click. Next open the <a
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href="ButtonBarDialogs.html#EditActionsDialog">Edit
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Actions Dialog</a>, if it is not open already. From this dialog
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set
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the delta value by clicking on the button labelled "</font><font
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color="#ff0000">Delta
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Value...</font><font color="#330000">" and specify an adjust
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amount.
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Close the <a href="ButtonBarDialogs.html#DeltaValueDialog">Delta Value
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Dialog</a> and select </font><font color="#ff0000">Adjust Value Up</font><font
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color="#330000">
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or </font><font color="#ff0000">Adjust Value Down</font><font
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color="#330000">
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from the Edit Actions Dialog. You should see that all of the wind
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speeds were changed by the amount you specified.</font>
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</p>
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<p><a name="AdjustPortionOfGrid"></a><font color="#3333ff"><font
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size="+2">Adjust
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the values for just a portion of a grid by a specified amount.</font></font>
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</p>
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<p><font color="#330000">To adjust a portion of a grid, you must first
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select an Edit Area in the Spatial Editor. To do this select the
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button on the Button Bar that looks like this.
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<img src="images/editArea.jpg" nosave="" align="middle">
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Next move your cursor into the Spatial Editor and draw the area over
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which
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you want to edit by pressing MB1 and dragging. See the section <a
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href="GFETrainingSpatialEditor.html#DefineEditAreabyHand">Define
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an Edit Area by Hand</a> for more information. Next select </font><font
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color="#ff0000">Adjust
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Value Up</font><font color="#330000"> or </font><font color="#ff0000">Adjust
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Value Down</font><font color="#330000"> from the <a
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href="ButtonBarDialogs.html#EditActionsDialog">Edit
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Actions Dialog</a> and you will see the gridpoints you selected
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previously
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change in value.</font>
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</p>
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<p><a name="AdjustWindDirection"></a><font color="#3333ff"><font
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size="+2">Adjust
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the wind directions for a selected portion of a grid by a specified
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amount.</font></font>
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</p>
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<p>Adjusting the wind direction is a slight change from adjusting the
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wind
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speed, described above. Select a wind grid to edit from the Grid
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Manager. Next, select a portion of the grid as you did in the
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last
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exercise. <font color="#330000">See the section <a
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href="GFETrainingSpatialEditor.html#DefineEditAreabyHand">Define
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an Edit Area by Hand</a> for more information. Now from the Main Menu
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of
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the GFE select, </font><font color="#ff0000">GFE->Editing
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Preferences->Vector
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Edit Mode->Direction Only</font><font color="#330000">. This
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will
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restrict all edit operations to wind direction without affecting the
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wind
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speed. Now open the <a
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href="ButtonBarDialogs.html#EditActionsDialog">Edit
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Actions Dialog</a> and select </font><font color="#ff0000">Adjust
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Value
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Up</font><font color="#330000"> or </font><font color="#ff0000">Adjust
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Value Down</font><font color="#330000">. Note that with each tool
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execution the wind direction changes by 10 degrees up or down.</font>
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</p>
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<p><a name="SmoothGrid"></a><font color="#3333ff"><font size="+2">Smooth
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the data contained in a grid.</font></font>
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</p>
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<p><font color="#330000">The Smooth operation is available from the <a
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href="ButtonBarDialogs.html#EditActionsDialog">Edit
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Actions Dialog</a>. To Smooth a grid, select a scalar or vector
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to
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edit and from the <a href="ButtonBarDialogs.html#EditActionsDialog">Edit
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Actions Dialog</a> select "</font><font color="#ff0000">Smooth</font><font
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color="#330000">".
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You should see that the gradients in the grid are less harsh than they
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were before the smooth operation.</font>
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</p>
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<p><a name="PickupValueAndAssign"></a><font color="#3333ff"><font
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size="+2">Pickup
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a value from the spatial editor's color bar and assign it to a selected
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Edit Area.</font></font>
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</p>
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<p>To pickup a value to assign, simply click or drag MB1 or MB2 in the
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color bar located at the top of the Spatial Editor. Note that as
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you click or drag the value that you specified is indicated by the
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shadowed
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number displayed on the color bar. Now that you have specified a
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pickup value, you can select an area as described in the section <font
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color="#330000"><a href="GFETrainingSpatialEditor.html#DefineEditAreabyHand">Define
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an Edit Area by Hand.</a></font> Finally, from the Edit
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Action
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menu select Assign Value. You should see the value of the area
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that
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you selected change to the current pickup value.
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</p>
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<p><a name="CreateNewWeatherValue"></a><font color="#3333ff"><font
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size="+2">Create
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a new weather value of your choice and use it to assign weather to a
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selected
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Edit Area.</font></font>
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</p>
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<p><font color="#330000">To create a new weather value, you first need
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to select a Wx grid from Grid Manager. Select an area in the
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Spatial
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editor to be changed. Next, from the color bar located at the top of
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the
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Spatial Editor, MB3 press and hold to display the pop-up menu.
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From
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the pop-up menu select </font><font color="#ff0000">Set Pickup Value...</font><font
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color="#330000">.
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Now you should see the <a
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href="ButtonBarDialogs.html#WeatherPickUpValueDialog">Set
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Weather Dialog</a> appear. Use this dialog to define a new
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weather
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type, coverage/probability, and intensity. See the section <a
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href="ButtonBarDialogs.html#WeatherPickUpValueDialog">Set
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Weather Dialog</a> for more information. When you have
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successfully
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defined your new weather value, click on </font><font color="#ff0000">Assign
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Value</font><font color="#330000">. You should see tool assign your
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weather
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value to the selected area.</font>
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</p>
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<p><font color="#330000">You can also use a quicker way to set the
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weather,
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if the weather you are setting is fairly common. Instead of choosing
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</font><font color="#ff0000">Set
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Pickup Value...</font><font color="#330000"> from the popup menu, you
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can
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choose a value under </font><font color="#ff0000">Set To Common
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Values...
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</font><font color="#000000">The values appearing in this menu are
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site-configurable.</font>
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<br>
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</p>
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<p><a name="CreateNewDiscreteValue"></a><font color="#3333ff"><font
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size="+2">Create
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a new discrete value of your choice and use it to assign discrete data
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to a selected Edit Area.</font></font>
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</p>
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<p><font color="#330000">To create a new discrete value, you first need
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to select a discrete grid from Grid Manager. The
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"Headlines" grid
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is an example of a discrete grid. Select an area in the Spatial editor
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to be changed. Next, from the color bar located at the top of the
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Spatial
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Editor, MB3 press and hold to display the pop-up menu. From the
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pop-up
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menu select </font><font color="#ff0000">Set Pickup Value...</font><font
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color="#330000">.
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Now you should see the <a href="ButtonBarDialogs.html#DiscretePickUpValueDialog">Set
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Discrete Value Dialog</a> appear. Use this dialog to define a new
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value. See the section <a href="ButtonBarDialogs.html#DiscretePickUpValueDialog">Set
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Discrete Value Dialog</a> for more information. When you
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have
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successfully defined your new value, click on </font><font
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color="#ff0000">Assign
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Value</font><font color="#330000">. You should see tool assign your
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discrete
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value to the selected area.</font>
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</p>
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<p><font color="#330000">You can also use a quicker way to set the
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discrete
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value, if the discrete value you are setting is fairly common.
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Instead of choosing
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</font><font color="#ff0000">Set Pickup Value...</font><font
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color="#330000">
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from the popup menu, you can choose a value under </font><font
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color="#ff0000">Set
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To Common Values... </font><font color="#000000">The values
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appearing in this menu are site-configurable.</font>
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<br>
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<br>
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</p>
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</body>
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</html>
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