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Example Gallery
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The files used in these examples are available for download_.

.. _download: https://adc.arm.gov/pyart/example_data/



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Moment correction examples
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Performing radar moment corrections in antenna (radial) coordinates.



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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="In this example the reflectivity attenuation is calculated and then corrected for a polarimetri...">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_correct_plot_attenuation.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Correct reflectivity attenuation</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="In this example doppler velocities are dealiased using the ial condition of the dealiasing, usi...">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_correct_plot_dealias.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Dealias doppler velocities using the Region Based Algorithm</div>
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Input/Output Examples
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Reading/writing a variety of radar data using Py-ART.



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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="In this example, we will show how to read in older NEXRAD files prior to 2008 that are missing ...">

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  .. image:: /examples/io/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_older_nexrad_data_aws_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_io_plot_older_nexrad_data_aws.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Reading Older NEXRAD Data and Fixing Latitude and Longitude Issues</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Within this example, we show how you can remotely access Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD)...">

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  .. image:: /examples/io/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_nexrad_data_aws_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_io_plot_nexrad_data_aws.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Reading NEXRAD Data from the AWS Cloud</div>
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Mapping examples
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Mapping one or multiple radars from antenna coordinates to a Cartesian grid.



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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Map the reflectivity field of a single radar from Antenna coordinates to a Cartesian grid.">

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  .. image:: /examples/mapping/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_map_one_radar_to_grid_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_mapping_plot_map_one_radar_to_grid.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Map a single radar to a Cartesian grid</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Map the reflectivity field of two nearby ARM XSARP radars from antenna coordinates to a Cartesi...">

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  .. image:: /examples/mapping/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_map_two_radars_to_grid_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_mapping_plot_map_two_radars_to_grid.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Map two radars to a Cartesian grid</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Map the reflectivity field of a single PPI sweep from Antenna (polar) coordinates to a Cartesia...">

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  .. image:: /examples/mapping/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_grid_single_sweep_ppi_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_mapping_plot_grid_single_sweep_ppi.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Map a single PPI sweep to a Cartesian grid using 2D weighting</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Map the reflectivity field of a single radar in Antenna coordinates to another radar in Antenna...">

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  .. image:: /examples/mapping/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_compare_two_radars_gatemapper_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_mapping_plot_compare_two_radars_gatemapper.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Compare Two Radars Using Gatemapper</div>
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Plotting examples
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Plotting real world radar data with Py-ART.



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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="An example which creates a RHI plot of a MDV file using a RadarDisplay object.">

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  .. image:: /examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_rhi_mdv_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_plotting_plot_rhi_mdv.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Create a RHI plot from a MDV file</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="An example which creates a PPI plot of a MDV file using a RadarDisplay object.">

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  .. image:: /examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_ppi_mdv_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_plotting_plot_ppi_mdv.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Create a PPI plot from a MDV file</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="An example which creates a PPI plot of a Cfradial file.">

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  .. image:: /examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_ppi_cfradial_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_plotting_plot_ppi_cfradial.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Create a PPI plot from a Cfradial file</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="An example which creates a plot containing the first collected scan from a NEXRAD file.">

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  .. image:: /examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_nexrad_reflectivity_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_plotting_plot_nexrad_reflectivity.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Create a plot of NEXRAD reflectivity</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="An example which extracts a cross section at two azimuth angles from a volume of PPI scans and ...">

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  .. image:: /examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_xsect_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_plotting_plot_xsect.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Plot a cross section from  a PPI volume</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="An example which creates a RHI plot of a CF/Radial file using a RadarDisplay object.">

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  .. image:: /examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_rhi_cfradial_singlescan_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_plotting_plot_rhi_cfradial_singlescan.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Create a multiple panel RHI plot from a CF/Radial file</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="An example which creates a two panel RHI plot of a cfradial file.  The fields included in the t...">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_plotting_plot_rhi_two_panel.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Create a two panel RHI plot</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="An example which creates a plot containing multiple moments taken from a NEXRAD Archive file.">

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  .. image:: /examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_nexrad_multiple_moments_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_plotting_plot_nexrad_multiple_moments.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Create a plot of multiple moments from a NEXRAD file</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="An example which creates a multiple panel RHI plot of a CF/Radial file using a RadarDisplay obj...">

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  .. image:: /examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_rhi_cfradial_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_plotting_plot_rhi_cfradial.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Create a multiple panel RHI plot from a CF/Radial file</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="An example that creates a 3 panel plot of a PPI, latitude slice, and longitude slice using xarr...">

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  .. image:: /examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_three_panel_gridmapdisplay_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_plotting_plot_three_panel_gridmapdisplay.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Create a 3 panel plot using GridMapDisplay</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="An example which creates a PPI plot of a file with a cartopy background and range rings">

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  .. image:: /examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_ppi_with_rings_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_plotting_plot_ppi_with_rings.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Create a PPI plot on a cartopy map</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Image muting reduces the visual prominence of the reflectivities within identified melting and ...">

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  .. image:: /examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_nexrad_image_muted_reflectivity_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_plotting_plot_nexrad_image_muted_reflectivity.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Create an image-muted reflectivity plot</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="An example which creates an RHI plot of velocity using a RadarDisplay object and adding Reflect...">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_plotting_plot_rhi_data_overlay.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Create an RHI plot with reflectivity contour lines from an MDV file</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This is an example of how to plot a cross section of your radar grid using the GridMapDisplay">

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  .. image:: /examples/plotting/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_cross_section_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_plotting_plot_cross_section.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Plot a Cross Section from a Grid</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This is an example of how to modify a colobar within a Py-ART display object.">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_plotting_plot_modify_colorbar.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Modify a Colorbar for your Plot</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="An example which creates an RHI plot of reflectivity using a RadarDisplay object and adding dif...">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_plotting_plot_rhi_contours_differential_reflectivity.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Create an RHI plot with reflectivity contour lines from an MDV file</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This is an example of what colormaps are available in Py-ART, and how to add them to your own p...">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_plotting_plot_choose_a_colormap.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Choose a Colormap for your Plot</div>
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Retrieval Examples
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Retrievals from various radars, such as additional fields or subsets of the data.



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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Given a radar and a point, extract the column of radar data values above a point">

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  .. image:: /examples/retrieve/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_column_subset_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_retrieve_plot_column_subset.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Extract a radar column above a point</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Calculates and plots the composite reflectivity, or the maximum reflectivity across all of the ...">

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  .. image:: /examples/retrieve/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_composite_reflectivity_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_retrieve_plot_composite_reflectivity.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Calculate and Plot Composite Reflectivity</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Calculates a VAD and plots a vertical profile of wind">

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  .. image:: /examples/retrieve/images/thumb/sphx_glr_plot_vad_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_retrieve_plot_vad.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Calculate and Plot VAD profile</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Calculates a hydrometeor classification and displays the results">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_retrieve_plot_hydrometeor.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Calculate and Plot hydrometeor classification</div>
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_retrieve_plot_cfad.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Creating a CFAD diagram</div>
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_retrieve_plot_convective_stratiform.py`

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_retrieve_plot_feature_detection.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Feature Detection classification</div>
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Xradar Examples
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Examples of using Xradar with Py-ART to accomplish different tasks.



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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="An example which uses xradar and Py-ART to create a PPI plot of a Cfradial file.">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_xradar_plot_xradar.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Plot a PPI Using Xradar and Py-ART</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="An example which uses xradar and Py-ART to grid a PPI file.">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_xradar_plot_grid_xradar.py`

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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="An example which uses xradar and Py-ART to dealias radial velocities.">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_examples_xradar_plot_dealias_xradar.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Dealias Radial Velocities Using Xradar and Py-ART</div>
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   /examples/correct/index.rst
   /examples/io/index.rst
   /examples/mapping/index.rst
   /examples/plotting/index.rst
   /examples/retrieve/index.rst
   /examples/xradar/index.rst


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