Siphon - A collection of Python utilities for retrieving atmospheric and oceanic data from remote sources, focusing on being able to retrieve data from Unidata data technologies, such as the THREDDS data server.
This is because with the raw text on the server, Latitude is listed as '**' and can't be converted to a float. On further inspection, Longitude is missing, and Elevation is -9999.0 I've noticed this with multiple soundings in South America.
I think it would make the most sense to return None or Nan for Latitude, Longitude and Elevation when this problem arises.
wyoming.py fails with:
df = WyomingUpperAir.request_data(datetime(2012, 1, 1, 0), '82244')This is because with the raw text on the server, Latitude is listed as '**' and can't be converted to a float. On further inspection, Longitude is missing, and Elevation is -9999.0 I've noticed this with multiple soundings in South America.
I think it would make the most sense to return None or Nan for Latitude, Longitude and Elevation when this problem arises.