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Various converters for getting obs data in and out of IODA
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Windborne data is reverse labelled #1486

Closed smaticka closed 3 months ago

smaticka commented 3 months ago

Description

o-b looks a lot better in skylab if the u and v wind components are reversed first. to test whether this is true before applying hofx, we need to adjust the converter, re-convert the data, and re-run JEDI for the 2023 sept period.

After talking to Windborne, their labeling was backwards and speed_x is now changed to speed_v and speed_y to speed_u. the converter is updated to handle both cases (speed_u or speed_y).

The variable names from their previous data were compared to their updated obs website, and they match, aside from the addition of speed_u and _v. (march 21st 2024). There is expected to be a specific humidity variable to come in the future.

Their converter script: https://github.com/windborne/to-prepbufr/blob/main/wb_to_prepbufr.py ^in which, they convert RH to Q and give error estimates:

# Right now, we simply hardcode these values to reasonable averages
        # However, in the future we may calculate these ourselves
        wind_x_error = 1.18
        wind_y_error = 1.18
        relative_humidity_error = 8.23
        temperature_error = 0.83

Issue(s) addressed

Resolves #1489

fabiolrdiniz commented 3 months ago

@smaticka, thanks for creating it. Coding norms are failing with:

./balloon_sonde_json2ioda.py:157:9: E266 too many leading '#' for block comment