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Sounding/Hodograph Analysis and Research Program in Python
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Archive requested sounding files? #63

Closed georgephillips1 closed 9 years ago

georgephillips1 commented 9 years ago

This is a request for enhancement.

Sometimes we download some pretty impressive/interesting sounding files. If one doesn't make screen captures of the sounding display when viewing them, you can't really go back very far to regenerate them for image viewing/capturing purposes (a day for model soundings and a week for observed soundings). It would be nice to be able to have the option to archive an interesting sounding file and load it again.

Thanks.

George

wblumberg commented 9 years ago

@georgephillips1 , this is a rather good idea, and we talked a bit about your request yesterday. I believe we have some code in place that can do this, and we'll be looking to add this function. Thank you for the suggestion!

keltonhalbert commented 9 years ago

@georgephillips1 Thank you for the excellent suggestion!

I have code that takes the sounding and prints it in the proper format to be read back in. It shouldn't be too hard to add this feature relatively soon. It might be a couple of weeks before it shows up, though - we're all students here, and finals week is upon us. That being said, we'll include this feature in the next patch!

georgephillips1 commented 9 years ago

Excellent. Thanks. Of course since I put this request in, I've wondered if something else was possible in the archive arena.

If this program is pulling the bufkit files from PSU as its data source, would it be possible to enable the program to read an archived bufkit sounding file? We archive these regularly for certain sites and it would make looking back at cases with SHARPpy much easier.

Thanks.

wblumberg commented 9 years ago

@georgephillips1, that certainly is possible, and we have the framework to read in files. It's just a matter of when we get to this. We'll add this to the list.

keltonhalbert commented 9 years ago

Since the original topic has been added to the latest release, will close issue.