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[AWIPS #SWZ-435980]: Python-AWIPS sounding levels

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  • Subject: [AWIPS #SWZ-435980]: Python-AWIPS sounding levels
  • Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 17:33:59 -0600
> AWIPS Support @ Unidata,
> Is there a way to get more than just the mandatory levels for observed
> soundings?  There are plenty more levels to grab from the file, but the
> only available parameters are on Mandatory Levels, SigT, SigW, MaxW, or
> Trop.  The number of levels available for plotting then becomes 28.

> This does not give all the data when compared to the number of lines in the
> current morning Denver, CO sounding (
> http://weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/sounding?region=naconf&TYPE=TEXT%3ALIST&YEAR=2016&MONTH=05&FROM=2412&TO=2412&STNM=72469
> )
> 
> Any way to get to those other datapoints?

I'm afraid that's not possible right now, which surprises me.  I'm going to 
look into adding requests for all records in a profile.  For now, SigT fields 
are the most complete record, though you could try to combine SigT, SigW, and 
Man levels into a single array, but I would rather fix this internally in EDEX.

You may know this already, but to list all available parameters for bufrua:

from awips.dataaccess import DataAccessLayer
DataAccessLayer.changeEDEXHost("edex-cloud.unidata.ucar.edu")
request = DataAccessLayer.newDataRequest()
request.setDatatype("bufrua")
availableParms = DataAccessLayer.getAvailableParameters(request)
availableParms.sort()
for parm in availableParms: print parm

dataURI
forecastHr
htMan
htSigW
latitude
longitude
numMand
numMwnd
numSigT
numSigW
numTrop
prMan
prMaxW
prSigT
prTrop
refTime
relTime
rptType
sfcPressure
staElev
staName
stationId
tdMan
tdSigT
tdTrop
tpMan
tpSigT
tpTrop
validTime
wdMan
wdMaxW
wdSigW
wdTrop
wmoStaNum
wsMan
wsMaxW
wsSigW
wsTrop




Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: SWZ-435980
Department: Support AWIPS
Priority: Normal
Status: Open
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