AWIPS NEXRAD Level 3 Rendered with Matplotlib

Shown here are plots for Base Reflectivity (N0Q, 94) and Base Velocity (N0U, 99) using AWIPS data rendered with Matplotlib, Cartopy, and MetPy. This example improves upon existing Level 3 Python rendering by doing the following:

  • Display scaled and labeled colorbar below each figure.
  • Plot radar radial images as coordinate maps in Cartopy and label with lat/lon.
  • 8 bit Z and V colormap and data scaling added to MetPy from operational AWIPS.
  • Level 3 data are retrieved from the Unidata EDEX Cloud server (edex-cloud.unidata.ucar.edu)
  • Raw HDF5 byte data are converted to product values.
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