pyrad.io.retrieve_radiosounding_mch#
- pyrad.io.retrieve_radiosounding_mch(station, dtime)[source]#
Retrieve sounding data from MCH DWH service and return as pandas DataFrame. It requires to set the environment variable $JRETRIEVE_PATH that points to a valid jretrieve executable.
- 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’]