Does this mean that we can only plot for RAOB locations or can we plot for
any lat lon point available in the dataset?
I thought we could just replace that "geom = POINT (... , ...)" line with
an appropriate lat lon location and then "fool" it into getting the data
from that location instead of OAX.
I don't believe that we could use the specific humidity for the vapor
pressure. The linked sounding (AWIPS 2 Cave) here is the same as you had
in the example posted (KOAX, July 13, 12Z).
https://drive.google.com/a/ucar.edu/file/d/0BwAYX88KH9wDSVd2dUNPWWEyckU/view?usp=sharing
It didn't look to me like these were the same.
Thanks for the quick response.
Bryan
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Michael James <mjames@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> and online now
>
> http://python-awips.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/generated/Model_Sounding_Data.html
>
> Michael James
> Unidata Program Center
> Boulder, CO
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Ryan May <rmay@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Bryan Guarente <guarente@xxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have worked through my own version of your sounding and advanced
>>> sounding examples using python-awips and metpy. However, I never saw any
>>> ability to make a model sounding. Is there an example of making a model
>>> sounding with MetPy and python-awips? Initially, I think this would be
>>> simple, but then I realized we would be using a completely different
>>> filetype and thus would likely have to use a different library to decode
>>> it.
>>>
>>> If you have any examples, can you post them to github?
>>>
>>
>> Bryan,
>>
>> Michael James (cc'ed, maintainer of python-awips) came up with the
>> attached and had this to add:
>>
>> "I believe this is correct, assuming specific humidity is equal to vapor
>> pressure e (modelsounding doesn't return dewpoint). Also note that the
>> available locations are limited to areas around OAX due to localization.
>> I'll have to update this to allow global access in the next release."
>>
>> I'm currently working on a gallery of notebooks that work across all of
>> the meteorology tools, and I'll add these when that's ready (I don't want
>> MetPy's own examples pulling from external, online data sources.)
>>
>> Ryan
>>
>> --
>> Ryan May, Ph.D.
>> Software Engineer
>> UCAR/Unidata
>> Boulder, CO
>>
>
>
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Bryan Guarente
Instructional Designer/Meteorologist
The COMET Program
Boulder, CO
