NOAA-ESRL Observation Package (ObsPack) Data Products obspack/std

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NOAA-ESRL Observation Package (ObsPack) Data Products obspack/std#

Description#

This plugin reads from the NOAA-ESRL ObsPack format. Data can be downloaded here: `https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/obspack/index.html`__.

ObsPack are provided with two possible format, as text files or NetCDF files. The present plugins automatically parses files depending on their extension (.txt or .nc).

Warning

This is a preliminary version of a full parser for ObsPack. Many options and different cases are not dealt with, e.g.:

  • different scales

  • different units

  • non-stationary platforms are not perfectly dealt with in CIF; horizontal move is fine, but vertical profiles are incorrectly sampled

  • etc.

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