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A tool to work in weather radar data in xarray
https://docs.openradarscience.org/projects/xradar
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ENH: Bring in extended list of supported message structures from MetPy for Level2 reader #163

Open jthielen opened 8 months ago

jthielen commented 8 months ago

As referenced in https://github.com/openradar/xradar/pull/158 and discussed with @mgrover1 in the MetPy telecon yesterday, there is still some relevant code in https://github.com/openradar/xradar/compare/main...jthielen:xradar:nexrad-level2 that may be helpful, namely that of a reconciled list of message structures combining those from both Py-ART's and MetPy's. Given that prior effort used MetPy's bespoke NamedStruct and BitField objects to handle this, there would likely be a quite a bit of refactoring needed (going either direction..modifying the reconciled lists to match the current xradar approach, or updating the xradar approach to use these MetPy-style objects). This issue can hopefully track this particular facet of the overall effort of https://github.com/openradar/xradar/issues/40.

kmuehlbauer commented 8 months ago

Thanks @jthielen for pushing this here.

I can have a look what would be necessary to incorporate things like BitField into the current structure.

I'm also interested to check if and how NamedStruct can be utilized for the current processing.

wx4stg commented 1 month ago

I'll just re-up this as there's a particular proprietary radar file that claims to be "level 2 format" (I can't share sadly, and I don't have time to look into it right now... I'm being soooo helpful, I know :/ ) that opens in metpy and pyart but does not open in xradar...