pyrad.proc.process_visibility#

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

Gets the visibility in percentage from the minimum visible elevation. Anything with elevation lower than the minimum visible elevation plus and offset is set to 0 while above is set to 100.

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
    offset : float. Dataset keyword
        The offset above the minimum visibility that must be filtered
    
  • radar_list (list of Radar objects) – Optional. list of radar objects

Returns:

  • new_dataset (dict) – dictionary containing the output field “visibility”

  • ind_rad (int) – radar index