pyrad.proc.process_dem#

pyrad.proc.process_dem(procstatus, dscfg, radar_list=None)[source]#

Gets DEM data and put it in radar coordinates

Parameters:

procstatus (int) – Processing status: 0 initializing, 1 processing volume, 2 post-processing

dscfg (dictionary of dictionaries) –

data set configuration. Accepted Configuration Keywords:

datatype : string. Dataset keyword
    arbitrary data type supported by pyrad
keep_in_memory : int. Dataset keyword
    if set keeps the COSMO data dict, the COSMO coordinates dict and
    the COSMO field in radar coordinates in memory. Default False
regular_grid : int. Dataset keyword
    if set it is assume that the radar has a grid constant in time and
    there is no need to compute a new COSMO field if the COSMO
    data has not changed. Default False
dem_field : str. Dataset keyword
    name of the DEM field to process
demfile : str. Dataset keyword
    Name of the file containing the DEM data

radar_list (list of Radar objects) – Optional. list of radar objects

Returns:

new_dataset (dict) – dictionary containing the output field with name corresponding to dem_field
ind_rad (int) – radar index