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kylejgillett / sounderpy

A python package that helps you to access and plot vertical profile data for meteorological analysis
https://kylejgillett.github.io/sounderpy/
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Add functionality to use WMO ID on get_obs_data() function #11

Closed AstroCGHA closed 1 year ago

AstroCGHA commented 1 year ago

Greetings! In the RAOB_STATIONS.txt file, there are many stations that do not have an ICAO ID e.g. Tanay, Ph. Station etc. Even with 'editing' and adding a 'substitute' ICAO ID for a certain station doesn't seem to work for querying the sounding profile of interest.

For the get_obs_data() function, an alternative way I suggest is to have an option for the user to either input/use;

  1. If available, the station's corresponding ICAO ID (3 or 4 letters; DTX or KDTX) or
  2. If ICAO ID is not available, the station's corresponding WMO ID instead (5 digit code; 72632)

Congrats on this work of yours. And thanks for consideration. :)

kylejgillett commented 1 year ago

Hey @AstroCGHA!

This is a great point and a good idea. Not sure why consideration escaped my mind originally lol

I will add this to the next release of SounderPy which I will have published this month!

kylejgillett commented 1 year ago

Thank you for submitting this issue (idea)!

Requesting RAOB data by WMO ID has been added to SounderPy's get_obs_data() function. Requesting RAOB site lat/lon by WMO ID has been added to SounderPy's raob_latlon() function.

These updates will be available with the next release of SounderPy.