Need some support for gridded radar data.

[rcjackson]

Hello,

I have been chatting with @mgrover1 about adding some support for a standard grid object into xradar. Since the Cf/Radial format is (1) easily integrable with xarray and (2) used by most radar software packages we were siding towards making the xradar grid object to be based on the Cf/Radial standard. In addition, there is some functionality in Py-ART that would make integration with packages such as PyDDA easier, namely adding in accessors that calculate point_x, point_y, point_x, point_latitutde, point_longitude, and point_altitude from gridded Cf/Radial data. Eventually, I see the goal is for PyART/PyDDA to simply use xradar Datasets for grids, so integrating the basic routines from Py-ART grids that do not involve interpolation into xradar as a priority. I will be working on this in the coming weeks.

Bobby

[kmuehlbauer]

@rcjackson Great initiative here! It would be nice to link the Cf/Radial grid standard here for interested folks.