dorade_dump − send contents of a DORADE sweep file to an ascii stream.
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dorade_dump sweep_file
This application dumps the contents of DORADE sweep file sweep_file to standard output in ascii format. Here is an example of the output.
Sweep headers:
radar_name: SMART-R1
time: 2004 6 19 12 52 48.0
radar_location: 35.237499 262.269501
radar_altitude: 0.439999997616
radar_type: 0
vol_num: 1
sweep_num: 1
n_sensors: 1
n_parms: 5
parms: ZT DZ VR SW DM
start_angle: 164.88533
stop_angle: -75.21904
fixed_angle: 0.499886
n_rays: 121
vert_beam_width: 0.977525
horz_beam_width: 0.977525
req_rotat_vel: 0.0
eff_unamb_range: 100.0
eff_unamb_vel: 19.9500007629
num_ipps_trans: 1
peak_power: 0.0
system_gain: 0.0
receiver_gain: 0.0
noise_power: 0.0
compression: 0
antenna_gain: 0.0
freq1: 5639097856.0
freq2: 0.0
freq3: 0.0
freq4: 0.0
freq5: 0.0
interpulse_per1: 0.0
interpulse_per2: 0.0
interpulse_per3: 0.0
interpulse_per4: 0.0
interpulse_per5: 0.0
filter_flag: 0
rotation: CW
scan_mode: PPI
num_freq_trans: 1
radar_const: 0.0
data_reduction: 1
data_red_parm0: 0.0
data_red_parm1: 0.0
proj_name: none
radar_alt_corr: 0.0
latitude_corr: 0.0
longitude_corr: 0.0
heading_corr: 0.0
azimuth_corr: 0.0
rot_angle_corr: 0.0
pitch_corr: 0.0
roll_corr: 0.0
tilt_corr: 0.0
vert_vel_corr: 0.0
drift_corr: 0.0
ns_gndspd_corr: 0.0
ew_gndspd_corr: 0.0
range_delay_corr: 0.0
elevation_corr: 0.0
pressure_alt_corr: 0.0
n_cells: 1499
dist_to_cell: 0.0 66.6699981689 133.339996338 (distances to
1496 more cells)
Ray headers:
1 (2004 6 19 12 52 58.0) 164.88533 0.505379
2 (2004 6 19 12 52 58.0) 165.896088 0.505379
3 (2004 6 19 12 52 58.0) 166.972763 0.505379
Ray data:
ZT ray 1: -6.5 5.5 20.0 (rest of ZT values for ray 1 ...)
ZT ray 2: -6.5 5.5 20.0 (rest of ZT values for ray 2 ...)
ZT ray 3: -6.5 5.5 20.5 (rest of ZT values for ray 3 ...)
DZ ray 1: -31.5 -31.5 16.5 (rest of DZ values for ray 1 ...)
DZ ray 2: -31.5 -24.5 20.0 (rest of DZ values for ray 2 ...)
DZ ray 3: -31.5 -29.5 18.5 (rest of DZ values for ray 3 ...)
VR ray 1: nodat nodat nodat (rest of VR values for ray 1
...)
VR ray 2: nodat nodat nodat (rest of VR values for ray 2
...)
VR ray 3: nodat nodat 18.37 (rest of VR values for ray 3
...)
SW ray 1: 0.31 0.31 0.31 (rest of SW values for ray 1)
SW ray 2: 0.31 4.51 2.65 (rest of SW values for ray 2)
SW ray 3: 1.87 3.03 0.31 (rest of SW values for ray 3)
DM ray 1: -61.95 -71.5 -27.94 (rest of SW values for ray 1)
DM ray 2: -61.95 -64.5 -24.44 (rest of SW values for ray 2)
DM ray 3: -61.95 -69.5 -25.94 (rest of SW values for ray
3)
Header types are as described at the soloii web site, cited below. Ray data is given as one line per parameter per ray. Missing data is indicated with string ’nodat’. If output must be numerical, run it through a filter. Here is an example that filters with sed (stream editor).
dorade_dump swp.YYYMMDDHHMMSS.SITE.TILT.PPI_v1 | sed ’s/nodat/-9999.9/g’
Header types are described at the soloii web site: http://www.atd.ucar.edu/rsf/UserGuides/ELDORA/DoradeFormat/Descriptors.html
Gordon D. Carrie, user0 at tkgeomap.org
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