Software description
Raw data conversion
The 3 GHz, 35 GHz and 94 GHz radars involved in the WIVERN-2 campaign provide raw data (designated as Level 0a) in different formats. For the 3 GHz and 94 GHz radars the files are in NetCDF-3 format, but with differing content. The 35 GHz radar Level 0a data are in binary format.
For the 3 GHz radar the Level 0a data are first processed to produce Level 0b files. This is accomplished using the following routine:
94 GHz radar time series are recorded as hourly files. Due to the large size of these files the following function uses the Python pynco module to split them into smaller, more manageable Level 0b files.
Where required the following function is used to remove empty rays of data at the beginning or end of a file.
Conversion from Level 0b to Level 1 is achieved using the following functions:
Binary format 35 GHz radar files are converted directly to Level 1 using