Storing soundings in SPDB
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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.
The second and third method both require data or output to be converted to an SPDB database file, which is a non-gridded file. This page describes how to convert Grib2 and TTAA/TTBB files to SPDB.
Model Output
TTAA/TTBB
University of Wyoming soundings.
NWSsoundingIngest -params NWSsoundingIngest.test -debug -f /path/to/data/NWS_soundings/20210101_000000.denver_soundings.txt SpdbQuery -url /path/to/data/NWS_soundings/spdb -mode interval -start "2021 01 01 00 00 00" -end "2021 02 01 00 00 00"
In the RadxPid params files the PID_sounding_location_name would be set as "72469", the Denver station ID. (In Mdv2SoundingSpdb.gfs, set with $(RADAR))
Other applications
CsuSounding2Spdb (CSU format sounding data)
BomSounding2Spdb (Australian Bureau of Meteorology sounding data)