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Plot a Description of the Liquid Precip Estimation Method

Imports

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Read in the Data

Read the Watershed and Instrumentation Locations

Read in the Raw Radar Data

['/gpfs/wolf/atm124/proj-shared/sail/202203_glued/xprecipradar_guc_volume_20220314-030359.b1.nc', '/gpfs/wolf/atm124/proj-shared/sail/202203_glued/xprecipradar_guc_volume_20220314-030920.b1.nc', '/gpfs/wolf/atm124/proj-shared/sail/202203_glued/xprecipradar_guc_volume_20220314-031440.b1.nc', '/gpfs/wolf/atm124/proj-shared/sail/202203_glued/xprecipradar_guc_volume_20220314-031959.b1.nc', '/gpfs/wolf/atm124/proj-shared/sail/202203_glued/xprecipradar_guc_volume_20220314-032520.b1.nc', '/gpfs/wolf/atm124/proj-shared/sail/202203_glued/xprecipradar_guc_volume_20220314-033040.b1.nc', '/gpfs/wolf/atm124/proj-shared/sail/202203_glued/xprecipradar_guc_volume_20220314-033600.b1.nc', '/gpfs/wolf/atm124/proj-shared/sail/202203_glued/xprecipradar_guc_volume_20220314-034120.b1.nc', '/gpfs/wolf/atm124/proj-shared/sail/202203_glued/xprecipradar_guc_volume_20220314-034640.b1.nc', '/gpfs/wolf/atm124/proj-shared/sail/202203_glued/xprecipradar_guc_volume_20220314-035200.b1.nc']

We can use the first file here, closes to 0300 UTC on March 14, 2022

<pyart.core.radar.Radar at 0x7ff2580d9ac0>

Read in the Processed Radar Data Subset for the Different Instruments

Download + Read Rain Gauge and Pluvio and Laser Disdrometer Data

Make sure to register + access your ARM Live token from the ARM Live registration page

[DOWNLOADING] gucldM1.b1.20220314.000000.cdf
[DOWNLOADING] gucwbpluvio2M1.a1.20220314.000000.nc

Apply QC Flags to both precip rates

Calculate the Total Precipitation Rates

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Setup Helper Functions

We need these helper functions to create the scale bar within our figure

Plot the Reflectivity with the Pluvio Sensor and Watershed Locations

/tmp/ipykernel_187/1384334602.py:28: UserWarning: FixedFormatter should only be used together with FixedLocator
  cbar.set_ticklabels(np.arange(-20, 50, 10), fontsize=14)
/ccsopen/home/mgrover/mgrover/sail-radar-dev/lib/python3.9/site-packages/geopandas/plotting.py:74: DeprecationWarning: distutils Version classes are deprecated. Use packaging.version instead.
  if mpl >= LooseVersion("3.4") or (mpl > LooseVersion("3.3.2") and "+" in mpl):
/ccsopen/home/mgrover/mgrover/sail-radar-dev/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/version.py:351: DeprecationWarning: distutils Version classes are deprecated. Use packaging.version instead.
  other = LooseVersion(other)
/ccsopen/home/mgrover/mgrover/sail-radar-dev/lib/python3.9/site-packages/geopandas/plotting.py:74: DeprecationWarning: distutils Version classes are deprecated. Use packaging.version instead.
  if mpl >= LooseVersion("3.4") or (mpl > LooseVersion("3.3.2") and "+" in mpl):
/ccsopen/home/mgrover/mgrover/sail-radar-dev/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/version.py:351: DeprecationWarning: distutils Version classes are deprecated. Use packaging.version instead.
  other = LooseVersion(other)
/ccsopen/home/mgrover/mgrover/sail-radar-dev/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cartopy/mpl/gridliner.py:451: UserWarning: The .xlabels_top attribute is deprecated. Please use .top_labels to toggle visibility instead.
  warnings.warn('The .xlabels_top attribute is deprecated. Please '
/ccsopen/home/mgrover/mgrover/sail-radar-dev/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cartopy/mpl/gridliner.py:487: UserWarning: The .ylabels_right attribute is deprecated. Please use .right_labels to toggle visibility instead.
  warnings.warn('The .ylabels_right attribute is deprecated. Please '
<Figure size 864x576 with 2 Axes>

Plot a Timeseries of Reflectivity and Snowfall at the Pluvio Sensor

/tmp/ipykernel_187/592557654.py:162: UserWarning: FixedFormatter should only be used together with FixedLocator
  cbar.set_ticklabels(np.arange(-20, 50, 10), fontsize=14)
/tmp/ipykernel_187/592557654.py:169: UserWarning: FixedFormatter should only be used together with FixedLocator
  cbar2.set_ticklabels(cbar2.get_ticks(), fontsize=14)
<Figure size 1440x864 with 6 Axes>

Interactive DSD Plot

WARNING:param.Image01564: Image dimension particle_size is not evenly sampled to relative tolerance of 0.001. Please use the QuadMesh element for irregularly sampled data or set a higher tolerance on hv.config.image_rtol or the rtol parameter in the Image constructor.
WARNING:param.Image01564: Image dimension particle_size is not evenly sampled to relative tolerance of 0.001. Please use the QuadMesh element for irregularly sampled data or set a higher tolerance on hv.config.image_rtol or the rtol parameter in the Image constructor.
/ccsopen/home/mgrover/mgrover/sail-radar-dev/lib/python3.9/site-packages/bokeh/core/property/bases.py:259: DeprecationWarning: elementwise comparison failed; this will raise an error in the future.
  return new == old
/ccsopen/home/mgrover/mgrover/sail-radar-dev/lib/python3.9/site-packages/bokeh/core/property/bases.py:259: DeprecationWarning: elementwise comparison failed; this will raise an error in the future.
  return new == old
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