pyart.core.Radar.get_gate_area

Radar.get_gate_area(sweep)[source]

Return the area of each gate in a sweep. Units of area will be the same as those of the range variable, squared.

Assumptions:

  1. Azimuth data is in degrees.

Parameters

sweep (int) – Sweep number to retrieve gate locations from, 0 based.

Returns

area (2D array of size (ngates - 1, nrays - 1)) – Array containing the area (in m * m) of each gate in the sweep.