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Continue readers for NOAA PSL Data

Open AdamTheisen opened this issue 2 years ago • 6 comments

There's a lot of different instruments deployed in the NOAA PSL Netowrk, developing readers for these would be beneficial, including with the upcoming AMF3 campaign coming up that will be in the vicinity of Courtland Airport

https://psl.noaa.gov/data/obs/sites/view_site_details.php?siteID=ctd

AdamTheisen avatar Jun 29 '22 19:06 AdamTheisen

Checklist of readers that need to be developed

  • [x] 915 MHz Wind Profiler Wind
  • [x] 915 MHz Wind Profiler Temperature
  • [x] 449 MHz Wind Profiler Wind
  • [x] 449 MHz Wind Profiler Temperature
  • [x] 3 GHz S-Band Moments
  • [x] Disdrometer Parsivel Optical
  • [x] Surface Meteorology (Data Logger CR100 link) - This has most of the other variables so would reduce readers
  • [x] FMCW Radar

AdamTheisen avatar Jun 29 '22 19:06 AdamTheisen

With #490 merged, we now have two readers in! Planning on taking a look at the other frequency wind profilers after SciPy to make sure the current readers support those...

mgrover1 avatar Jul 08 '22 15:07 mgrover1

I've been looking at SurfaceMet for NOAA PSL data as part of SAIL. I have an idea for the generic reader. Turns out the downloader pulls from the RAW area which does not have file headers in the file or documentation on the data. I'm looking into understanding this now and have an idea on how to resolve the different files.

kenkehoe avatar Jul 19 '22 22:07 kenkehoe

The FMCW read might work for the S-band moments as well. Will have to test a little though

AdamTheisen avatar Aug 23 '22 23:08 AdamTheisen

@AdamTheisen I think my recent PR resolves Surface Meteorology (Data Logger CR100 link). Shall we check that one off the list?

kenkehoe avatar Sep 12 '22 16:09 kenkehoe

Done!

AdamTheisen avatar Sep 12 '22 16:09 AdamTheisen

I'm removing the GPS one from the list for now. The documentation does not line up with the readable file so there is no way of telling that we are parsing it correctly. Once #559 is merged in we can check the last one off the list and close out.

AdamTheisen avatar Nov 11 '22 20:11 AdamTheisen

Finished, closing

zssherman avatar Nov 15 '22 19:11 zssherman