HALO Photonics wind doppler lidar file reader
Project description
HALO reader – tool for HALO Photonics wind doppler lidar post-processing
Package is under development and functionality/features might change.
Feedback is welcome: mail | create issue
Features
- Read and merge raw files into a netCDF file
- Read raw data directly from Cloudnet into a netCDF
- Visualise data
Installation
# Requires Python 3.10 or newer
# create a virtual environment (optional)
python3 -m venv env
# activate the virtual environment
source env/bin/activate
# update pip
pip install -U pip
# install
pip install halo-reader
Notes for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) users
You can get Python 3.10 by installing Ubuntu 22.04 from microsoft store.
In WSL, you may need to install build-essential
and python3-dev
before installing halo-reader
.
Usage
haloreader --help
haloreader from_raw --help
haloreader from_cloudnet --help
Use data from cloudnet
# generate halo_warsaw_2023-03-16.nc file
# and vis/halo_warsaw_2023-13-16.png visualisation
haloreader from_cloudnet --site warsaw --date 2023-03-16 --plot
# Browse generated visualisations at /vis directory
haloboard
# open your browser at localhost:5000
Use raw files
haloreader from_raw Stare_213_20230326_*.hpl Background_*0323-*.txt -o out.nc --plot
# Browse generated visualisations at /vis directory
haloboard
# open your browser at localhost:5000
Note that a good background correction requires around 300 or more background profiles.
License
MIT
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