pyart.aux_io.read_hpl#

pyart.aux_io.read_hpl(filename, additional_metadata=None, location=None)[source]#

Read a hpl ASCII file from the Halo Photonoics Steamline lidar.

Parameters:

  • filename (str) – Name of CF/Radial netCDF file to read data from.

  • additional_metadata (dict of dicts, optional) – This parameter is not used, it is included for uniformity.

  • location (str) – Name of the location from which the data comes, if provided will assign corresponding values of lat, lon and alt. The named locations can be added to the global variable LOCATION_CAMPAIGNS in this script

Returns:

radar (Radar) – Radar object.

Notes

This function has not been tested on “stream” Cfradial files.