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Ingesting thermodynamic soundings for use in RadxPid is possible in three ways:
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Thermodynamic soundings are important in RadxPid because temperature helps distinguish between liquid and frozen hydrometeors. Soundings can be ingested into RadxPid in three ways:
 
* entered manually in the PID thresholds file - only one sounding is allowed.
 
* entered manually in the PID thresholds file - only one sounding is allowed.
 
* estimated from model output (Grib2toMdv, Mdv2SoundingSpdb) - this is the preferred method.
 
* estimated from model output (Grib2toMdv, Mdv2SoundingSpdb) - this is the preferred method.
* observed sounding downloaded and converted from native format to spdb - described below.
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* observed sounding downloaded and converted from native format to SPDB - described below.

Revision as of 23:51, 10 February 2021

Overview

Thermodynamic soundings are important in RadxPid because temperature helps distinguish between liquid and frozen hydrometeors. Soundings can be ingested into RadxPid in three ways:

  • entered manually in the PID thresholds file - only one sounding is allowed.
  • estimated from model output (Grib2toMdv, Mdv2SoundingSpdb) - this is the preferred method.
  • observed sounding downloaded and converted from native format to SPDB - described below.