.. _sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_io:

.. _io_examples:

Input/Output Examples
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Examples showing different ways to read and save data.



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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows how to read and plot a backtrajectory calculated by the NOAA HYSPLIT model over Houston.">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_io_plot_hysplit.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Read and plot a HYSPLIT trajectory file from a HYSPlIT run.</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Example of how to read in raw data from the mini-MPL and plot out the PPI by converting it to PyART">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_io_read_raw_minimpl.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Read and plot a PPI from raw mini-MPL data</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows how to read and display Sodar data from the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) ATMOS site.">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_io_plot_sodar.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Read and plot a Sodar file</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This data shows how to read in SurfRad data from the urls and plot the data up in a time series">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_io_plot_surfrad.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Plot SurfRad Data</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows how to read and display International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation (ICARTT) file format standards V2.0">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_io_plot_icartt.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Plot ICARTT Formatted Files</div>
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_io_plot_create_arm_ds.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Create a dataset to mimic ARM file formats</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This script shows how to convert ARM data to AmeriFlux format using an ACT function, and write it out to csv.  More information on AmeriFlux and their file formats and naming conventions can be found here: https://ameriflux.lbl.gov/">

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  :ref:`sphx_glr_source_auto_examples_io_plot_convert_ameriflux.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Convert Data to AmeriFlux Format</div>
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.. toctree::
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   /source/auto_examples/io/plot_hysplit
   /source/auto_examples/io/read_raw_minimpl
   /source/auto_examples/io/plot_sodar
   /source/auto_examples/io/plot_surfrad
   /source/auto_examples/io/plot_icartt
   /source/auto_examples/io/plot_create_arm_ds
   /source/auto_examples/io/plot_convert_ameriflux