pyrad.io.read_radiosounding_igra#

pyrad.io.read_radiosounding_igra(station, dtime)[source]#

Download radiosounding data from from the Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive (IGRA)

Parameters:

station – str Radiosounding station 5 digits WMO code (e.g., “72776”).
dtime – datetime.datetime Datetime object specifying the desired date and time.

Returns:

pandas.DataFrame – A DataFrame containing the radiosounding data with [‘LVLTYPE1’, ‘LVLTYPE2’,’ETIME’, ‘PRESS’, ‘PFLAG’, ‘GPH’,’ZFLAG’, ‘TEMP’, ‘TFLAG’, ‘RH’,’DPDP’,’WDIR’,’WSPD’]

Please see this link for a description of the columns https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/integrated-global-radiosonde-archive/ doc/igra2-data-format.txt