ncas-radar-wind-profiler-1-software

This repo contains code and scripts to make AMOF v2 netCDF files for the ncas-radar-wind-profiler-1 instrument from trw files.

Requirements

• python 3.7 or above
• python modules:
  • netCDF4
  • numpy
  • ncas_amof_netcdf_template

Installation

To install, either clone the repo git clone https://github.com/ncasuk/ncas-radar-wind-profiler-1-software.git or download and extract a release version.

Download the required modules using conda install --file requirements.txt or pip install -r requirements.txt.

Usage

python process_wp.py /path/to/raw1.trw /path/to/raw2.trw ... -m metadata.csv

Additional flags that can be given for each python script:

• -o or --ncfile-location - where to write the netCDF files to. If not given, default is '.'
• -v or --verbose - print additional information as the script runs
• -t or --options - define options for netCDF file name as allowed by the standard, e.g. high-mode_15min

A description of all the available options can be obtained using the -h flag, for example

python process_wp.py -h

BASH scripts

Three scripts are provided for easy use:

• make_netcdf.sh - makes netCDF file for a given date: ./make_netcdf.sh YYYYmmdd
• make_today_netcdf.sh - makes netCDF file for today's data: ./make_today_netcdf.sh
• make_yesterday_netcdf.sh - makes netCDF file for yesterday's data: ./make_yesterday_netcdf.sh

Within make_netcdf.sh, the following may need adjusting:

• netcdf_path="/gws/...": replace file path with where to write netCDF files
• filepath_trt0="/gws/...": replace file path with path to data. The same applies to filepath_trt1="/gws/..."
• logfilepath"/home/...": replace file path with path for where to write log files

Further Information

• read_wp.py contains the code that actually reads the raw data. This is called from within process_wp.py.
• Some quality control is performed on the data. This is based on code from Emily Norton, the instrument scientist, and is included within read_wp.py.
• See ncas_amof_netcdf_template or its documentation for more information on how the netCDF file is created, and the additional useful functions it contains.