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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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Support for NCEP FNL gridded dataset access #12

Closed AstroCGHA closed 1 year ago

AstroCGHA commented 1 year ago

Aside from the popular ERA5 Reanalysis, another 'reanalysis' dataset that can be used to extract sounding profile and can be added in a possible future work will be the NCEP FNL (1 deg) and/or NCEP-GDAS FNL (0.25 deg, better horizontal resolution than the previous rendition). Sample article that uses the aforementioned dataset is attached here.

I would like to suggest an additional support to the get_model_data() function to load and parse data from the NCEP FNL and/or NCEP-GDAS FNL dataset. It is available via RDA's THREDDS Dataserver for 1 deg and/or 0.25 deg.

May help WRF users, as well. Thank you for responding to my previous suggestion and I'm enjoying using your package~

kylejgillett commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the idea submission, @AstroCGHA!

I have added access to this dataset to SounderPy (specifically the 0.25-degree set). I will add that there appears to be some strange behavior at times with MetPy calculations when using this data, but I have yet to discover what the issues are.

I will make this data access available to the next release of SounderPy and perhaps users can possibly help identify what may be causing these issues.

Closing this issue for now.