Posts by Max Grover

Investigating ARM Scanning Cloud Radar Data from EPCAPE

We would like to find data from a relevant case, and visualize using Py-ART!

Include a walk through of the solution, with some sort of final figure or notable insight!

dq plot browser epcape

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Plotting Severe Weather in Wisconsin

Last Friday (March 31, 2023), a severe weather outbreak impacted a large portion of the Central United States, including the Upper Midwest. There were a total of:

142 tornado reports

NWS Milwaukee Radar Image

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Hail Storm Visualization Using Py-ART and Pandas!

Within this post, we will walk through how to combine radar and storm report data, creating an animation of the two!

On September 7, 2021, a strong line of thunderstorms passed through Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois, leaving a trail of hail and wind damage in its path.

Hail Image

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Fixing Weird Patterns When Plotting NEXRAD Level 3 Data

The motivation here comes from a thread on Twitter, indicating an issue when plotting NEXRAD Level 3 radial velocity (NOU).

Here is the radar image, plotted by David (@dryglick):

drawing

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Working with Vertically Pointing Radar Data Using PyART, Xarray, and hvPlot

This notebook will walk through how to utilize existing packages in the Python ecosystem (PyART, Xarray, and hvPlot) to visualize data from a vertically pointing Ka-band radar.

By the end of this notebook, you will learn how to create the following visualization: interactive-kazr-viz

interactive-kazr-viz

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New Docs

Hello All!

Welcome to our new documentation page! This is a new section within the docs meant for:

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