Input/Output routines.
Automatic reading of radar files by detecting format.
| read(filename[, use_rsl]) | Read a radar file and return a radar object. |
| determine_filetype(filename) | Return the filetype of a given file by examining the first few bytes. |
Input/output routines common to many file formats.
| dms_to_d(dms) | Degrees, minutes, seconds to degrees |
| stringarray_to_chararray(arr[, numchars]) | Convert an string array to a character array with one extra dimension. |
| radar_coords_to_cart(rng, az, ele[, debug]) | Calculate Cartesian coordinate from radar coordinates |
| make_time_unit_str(dtobj) | Return a time unit string from a datetime object. |
Utilities for reading CF/Radial files.
| read_cfradial(filename[, field_names, ...]) | Read a Cfradial netCDF file. |
| write_cfradial(filename, radar[, format, ...]) | Write a Radar object to a CF/Radial compliant netCDF file. |
| _find_all_meta_group_vars(ncvars, ...) | Return a list of all variables which are in a given meta_group. |
| _ncvar_to_dict(ncvar) | Convert a NetCDF Dataset variable to a dictionary. |
| _stream_ncvar_to_dict(ncvar, sweeps, sweepe, ...) | Convert a Stream NetCDF Dataset variable to a dict. |
| _stream_to_2d(data, sweeps, sweepe, ray_len, ...) | Convert a 1D stream to a 2D array. |
| _create_ncvar(dic, dataset, name, dimensions) | Create and fill a Variable in a netCDF Dataset object. |
Reading and writing Grid objects.
| read_grid(filename) | Read a netCDF grid file |
| write_grid(filename, grid[, format]) | Write a Grid object to a CF-1.5 and ARM standard netcdf file |
| _read_grid_cf(filename) | Read a CF compliant netCDF file containing a grid. |
| _read_grid_wrf(filename) | Read a WRF netCDF file containing a grid. |
| Grid(fields, axes, metadata) | An object for holding gridded Radar data. |
Utilities for reading of MDV files.
| MdvFile(filename[, debug, read_fields]) | A file object for MDV data. |
| read_mdv(filename[, field_names, ...]) | Read a MDV file. |
Functions for reading NEXRAD Level II Archive files.
| read_nexrad_archive(filename[, field_names, ...]) | Read a NEXRAD Level 2 Archive file. |
Functions for accessing Common Data Model (CDM) NEXRAD Level 2 files.
| read_nexrad_cdm(filename[, field_names, ...]) | Read a Common Data Model (CDM) NEXRAD Level 2 file. |
| _scan_info(dvars) | Return a list of information on the scans in the volume. |
| _populate_scan_dic(scan_dic, time_var, ...) | Populate a dictionary in the scan_info list. |
| _get_moment_data(moment_var, index, ngates) | Retieve moment data for a given scan. |
| NEXRADLevel2File(filename[, bzip]) | Class for accessing data in a NEXRAD (WSR-88D) Level II file. |
| _decompress_records(file_handler) | Decompressed the records from an BZ2 compressed Archive 2 file. |
| _get_record_from_buf(buf, pos) | Retrieve and unpack a NEXRAD record from a buffer. |
| _get_msg31_data_block(buf, ptr) | Unpack a msg_31 data block into a dictionary. |
| _structure_size(structure) | Find the size of a structure in bytes. |
| _unpack_from_buf(buf, pos, structure) | Unpack a structure from a buffer. |
| _unpack_structure(string, structure) | Unpack a structure from a string |
A general central radial scanning (or dwelling) instrument class.
| Radar(time, _range, fields, metadata, ...[, ...]) | A class for storing antenna coordinate radar data. |
| join_radar(radar1, radar2) |
Python wrapper around the RSL library.
| read_rsl(filename[, field_names, ...]) | Read a file supported by RSL |
| VOLUMENUM2RSLNAME | |
| RSLNAME2VOLUMENUM |
Cython wrapper around the NASA TRMM RSL library.
| copy_volume(volume) | Return a copy of a _RslVolume object. |
| create_volume(arr) | Create a _RslVolume object from a 3D float32 array. |
| _label_volume(volume, radar) | Add labels for dealiasing to a _RslVolume object from a radar object. |
| RslFile | A object for accessing Radar data and parameter using the RSL library. |
| _RslVolume | A object for accessing RSL Volume data and header information. |
| _RslSweep | A object for accessing RSL Sweep data and header information. |
| _RslRay | A object for accessing RSL Ray data and header information |
Reading and writing of Sigmet (raw format) files
| read_sigmet(filename[, field_names, ...]) | Read a Sigmet (IRIS) product file. |
| ymds_time_to_datetime(ymds) | Return a datetime object from a Sigmet ymds_time dictionary. |
| _time_order_data_and_metadata_full(data, ...) | Put Sigmet data and metadata in time increasing order by sorting the |
| _time_order_data_and_metadata_roll(data, ...) | Put Sigmet data and metadata in time increasing order using a single |
A class and supporting functions for reading Sigmet (raw format) files.
| SigmetFile | A class for accessing data from Sigmet (IRIS) product files. |
| convert_sigmet_data | Convert sigmet data. |
| bin2_to_angle | Return an angle from Sigmet bin2 encoded value (or array). |
| bin4_to_angle | Return an angle from Sigmet bin4 encoded value (or array). |
| _data_types_from_mask | Return a list of the data types from the words in the data_type mask. |
| _is_bit_set | Return True if bit is set in number. |
| _parse_ray_headers | Parse the metadata from Sigmet ray headers. |
| _unpack_structure | Unpack a structure |
| _unpack_key | Unpack a key. |
| _unpack_ingest_data_headers | Unpack one or more ingest_data_header from a record. |
| _unpack_ingest_data_header | Unpack a single ingest_data_header from record. |
| _unpack_raw_prod_bhdr | Return a dict with the unpacked raw_prod_bhdr from a record. |
| _unpack_product_hdr | Return a dict with the unpacked product_hdr from the first record. |
| _unpack_ingest_header | Return a dict with the unpacked ingest_header from the second record. |