Re: [python-users] MetPy NEXRAD Level 2 - Can get lat, lon out to use for plotting map?

• To: Ryan Connelly <rconne01@xxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [python-users] MetPy NEXRAD Level 2 - Can get lat, lon out to use for plotting map?
• From: Brian Blaylock <blaylockbk@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 09:06:00 -0600

Hi Ryan,

I was just about to reply, when I saw Kevin's email. I did what he
suggested (using pyproj to convert the range and azimuth to a latitude
longitude). I documented my method here:
http://kbkb-wx-python.blogspot.com/2016/07/plotting-radar-data-with-metpy-pyproj.html


 *Brian*

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Ryan Connelly <rconne01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Using this code:
> https://unidata.github.io/MetPy/examples/formats/NEXRAD_
> Level_2_File.html#sphx-glr-examples-formats-nexrad-level-2-file-py
>
> Ideally, I should be able to just extract a lat and a lon variable from
> the file, except that I don't know if they exist, and if they do, what
> their names are.
>
> From there, I'd like to plot the georeferenced data over a base map using
> CartoPy.  Is this possible?  (I just happen to already have some shapefiles
> on hand that I want to use that I know CartoPy can read in.)
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
> --
> Ryan Connelly
> M.S. Student in Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University
> B.S. in Meteorology with Minors in Mathematics and GIS, Valparaiso
> University
> rconne01@xxxxxxxxx
> ryan.connelly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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