AWOT provides a toolkit of utilities to read and visualize weather observation files collected via aircraft platforms.
##Package Structure
(Documentation to follow soon!)
###io
Input and output of specific data files
In-Situ Flight Data:
* NetCDF
* NASA AMES FFI 1001 format
Remote Sensing:
* Univ. Wyoming Cloud Radar (W-band) Level 2 NetCDF files.
* Univ. of Wyoming Cloud Lidar.
* NOAA P-3/G-IV tail Doppler and lower fuselage radar native radar coordinates.
* NOAA P-3 tail Doppler and lower fuselage radar gridded coordinates produced by the windysn program.
* LATMOS/SAFIRE Falcon NetCDF files which contain both W-band radar and flight information.
* Any surface-based radar file readable with Py-ART.
###graph Produce horizontal or vertical plots. Horizontal plots are overlaid on a Basemap instance and vertical plots are regular 2D plots. Experimental 3D plotting is also provided.
###utility Routines for matching flight track to points in a volume of data, creating radar CFAD diagrams. In addition, a number of helper/conversion routines can be found here.
###src Processing software for NOAA P-3 tail radar data. Work in progress, not operational yet.
##How-to Many examples Jupyter notebooks are provided to familiarize yourself with AWOT.
Read a NOAA P-3 tail radar sweep file:
from awot import io
radar = io.read_tdr_sweep(fname='p3_radar_file.nc')
Read a flight data file in NetCDF:
from awot import io
flight = io.read_netcdf(fname='flightfile.nc', platform='p-3', file_format='netcdf')
Read a binary windsyn file:
from awot import io
radar = io.read_windsyn_binary(filename=file, platform='p-3', file_format='netcdf', instrument='tdr_sweep')
Data can then be plotted:
from awot import graph
rgp = graph.RadarSweepPlot(fl, instrument='tdr_sweep')
rgp.plot_track_relative('dBZ')
from awot import graph
flp = FlightLevel(flight)
flp.plot_trackmap(color_by_altitude=True, track_cmap='spectral', addlegend=True, addtitle=True)##Installation The latest source code for AWOT can be obtained from the GitHub repository, https://github.com/nguy/AWOT.
Either download and unpack the zip file of the source code or use git to checkout the repository
git clone https://github.com/nguy/AWOT
To install in your home directory, use:
python setup.py install --user
To install for all users on Unix/Linux:
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install
##Dependencies
A typical scientific python stack is employed: Numpy Scipy matplotlib netCDF4
It is highly recommended to use Anaconda python distribution that provides easy access to all of these packages along with much more.
Optional: Py-ART package is used for reading some radar data. Simplekml used to produce KMZ file output.
##Notes At present this package is primarily for visualization. However, work is underway to connect many processing routines that allow processing from start to finish with airborne data.
Development to provide the ability to process Wyoming Cloud radar and lidar files is underway.
AWOT was developed on MacOSX 10.9 - 10.10.5 using Python 2.7, though it should be Python 3 compliant.
##Contributors
Timothy Lang
Andrew Lyons
Steve Nesbitt