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Add bufkit support

Open dopplershift opened this issue 7 years ago • 4 comments

Bufget seems to be a popular program to get bufkit files from various FTP servers. We could provide similar, and it seems really easy to read into pandas.

  • https://training.weather.gov/wdtd/tools/BUFKIT/BufkitUpdate.html
  • ftp://ftp.meteo.psu.edu/pub/bufkit/NAM/12/nam_kunv.buf

Not sure what the canonical bufkit sites are, or if there's a standard for the different locations/models they provide. Not sure if this stuff arrives via NOAAPORT somehow either.

dopplershift avatar Oct 06 '18 20:10 dopplershift

This is an issue I am interested in helping siphon with.

  • I have a clunky BUFKIT decoder in pyIEM that emits two DataFrames, one for the surface data and one for the sounding data.
  • I have a massive archive of the raw BUFKIT text files on the mtarchive website.
  • I have a JSON webservice that has a handful of supported query operations against this archive, one of them returns the BUFKIT text verbatim.

So what should siphon implement here?

akrherz avatar Nov 17 '21 16:11 akrherz

Well, the outcome of our discussion on MetPy was to move Siphon to focus exclusively on THREDDS, and MetPy should gain remote functionality. So I think the answer to that question is: Nothing. All of it should go into MetPy.

dopplershift avatar Nov 17 '21 17:11 dopplershift

Goodness, I thought that discussion was had somewhere, but I could not find it in issues on MetPy, never occurred to look within discussions, sigh.

akrherz avatar Nov 17 '21 17:11 akrherz

I knew it existed, so I kept searching more when issues didn't give me what I wanted. 😆

dopplershift avatar Nov 17 '21 17:11 dopplershift