Main configuration file#

The main configuration file is used to define the global settings, notably the paths to the different sources of data. The parameters of the main configuration file are described in Table 2.

Table 2: Configuration parameters of the main configuration file

Name	Type	Description
name	STRING	Name of the data processing. This name is used in the path of the saved products in the following manner: `<saveimgbasepath>/<name>/<YYYY-MM-DD>/<datasetname>/<prodname>/<outputname>`
datapath	STRING	Base directory of the rainbow raw data. This field must have a trailing ‘/’. The raw data files of a scan can be found using the following file path: `<datapath>/<scanname>/<YYYY-MM-DD>/<YYYYMMDDHHMMSS00datatype>.<ext>`
configpath	STRING	Base directory of the configuration files. This directory contains clutter maps, filter coefficients, antenna pattern, and the data processing configuration files.
locationConfigFile	STRING	File name (with full path) of the location configuration file. Described in Section 3.2.
productConfigFile	STRING	File name (with full path) of the product configuration file. Described in Section 4.
lastStateFile	STRING	File name (with full path) of the file containing the time of the last processed scan. Used in particular for real-time processing.
imgformat	STRING/ STRARR	File format(s) of the images. The following formats are supported: eps, png, and jpg. If `saveimg` is set to 0, this field is not used.
saveimgbasepath	STRING	Base directory for the images to save. The directory structure looks as follows: `<saveimgbasepath>/<name>/<YYYY-MM-DD>/<datasetname>/<prodname>/<outputname>` If `saveimg` is set to 0, this field is not used.
s3copypath	STRING	OPTIONAL. Path to an S3 bucket. If provided all generated products will be written there as well using the same data structure. The format must be https://bucket_name.endpoint.domain, for example https://tests.fr-par-1.linodeobjects.com/. The S3 copy procedure will only work if the environment variables AWS_KEY and AWS_SECRET are defined in the pyrad scope. AWS_KEY contains the S3 bucket AWS key and AWS_SECRET the associated secret.
loadbasepath	STRING	OPTIONAL. Base path of saved data. By default, this field is set to `saveimgbasepath`.
loadname	STRING	OPTIONAL. Name of the saved data processing. Used for saved volume loading. By default, this field is set to `name`.
dempath	STRING	OPTIONAL. Base directory of the Digital Elevation Model (DEM) files. Basically to load the radar visibility (Optional).
smnpath	STRING	OPTIONAL. Base directory of the SwissMetNet stations data. Used in the comparison between radar data and rain gauges (Optional).
disdropath	STRING	OPTIONAL. Base directory of the disdrometer data. Used in the comparison between radar data and disdrometers (Optional).
solarfluxpath	STRING	OPTIONAL. Base directory of the solar flux data. Used to plot the calibration bias based on sun monitoring (Optional).
iconpath	STRING	OPTIONAL. Base directory of the ICON (NWP model) data files.