pccora 0.0.1

PC-CORA sounding data files parser for Python

PC-CORA parser for Python. Supports the format described here https://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/ukmo-rad-hires/pc-coradata.html (2015-12-05).

This format is used for [radiosonde data](https://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/ukmo-rad-hires/). According to Wikipedia,

“A radiosonde (Sonde is French and German for probe) is a battery-powered telemetry instrument package carried into the atmosphere usually by a weather balloon that measures various atmospheric parameters and transmits them by radio to a ground receiver.”

History

I was asked by a co-worker to look at some Python code with a PC-CORA parser. However, he also needed some further work on finding these files and outputting the contents as CSV. Decided to write a module for PC-CORA inspiredby the original script [1], using Python3, OO and packing as a Python package to be distributed to the PYPI <https://pypi.python.org/pypi>.

[1] https://github.com/vnoel/pycode/blob/master/pccora.py

Example

>>> from pccora import PCCORAParser
>>> pccora_parser = PCCORAParser()
>>> pccora_parser.parse_file('./123456789.EDT')
>>> print(pccora_parser.get_header())
>>> print(pccora_parser.get_identification())
>>> print(pccora_parser.get_data())

Requirements

Python 2 or Python 3, and the construct library <https://github.com/construct/construct>.

License

Licensed under the MIT License.