soundings package

dypy.soundings.create_sounding_url(station, year, month, day, hour)[source]

create the url to acces sounding based on the University of Wyoming website (http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html)

usage:
create_url(‘06610’, 1993, 12, 12, 12)
Parameters:
  • station (string) – Number of the station 10410 Essen (D) 10618 Idar-Oberstein (D) 07145 Trappes (F) 06260 De Bilt (NL) 10238 Bergen (D) 06610 Payerne (CH) 16080 Milan (I) 10868 Munich (D)
  • year (float) – yyyy
  • month (float) – mm
  • day (float,) – dd
  • hour (float) – hh
Returns:

The URL as string
Return type:

string
dypy.soundings.get_sounding(file_or_url)[source]
input:
file_or_url (string): the name of the sounding file
or the URL of the sounding file
output:
sounding (dictionary): dictionary containing the sounding data