pom.track Namespace Reference

This module has a simple "get_vitals" function to extract vitals from NHC vital file (syndat_tcvitals.year). More...

Detailed Description

This module has a simple "get_vitals" function to extract vitals from NHC vital file (syndat_tcvitals.year).

Note

Please report bugs/questions/comments to bijuthomas(at)mail(dot)uri(dot)edu.

Author

Biju Thomas, GSO, University of Rhode Island.

Date

June 11, 2014

Functions
def	get_vitals (vitalfile, centerid, stormid, yyyy, trackfile)
	Reads tcvitals. More...
def	qck (astr, bstr)
	Quality check function: if a>b or b is 999, returns -999, otherwise returns b. More...
def	track_shorten
	Removes unwanted parts of the track file from get_vitals() More...

Variables
list	__all__ = [ 'get_vitals' ]
	List of symbols to export by "from pom.track import *".

Function Documentation

def pom.track.get_vitals	(		vitalfile,
			centerid,
			stormid,
			yyyy,
			trackfile
	)

Reads tcvitals.

Parameters

vitalfile	File to parse
centerid	Forecast center: NHC or JTWC
stormid	three character storm ID (ie.: 12L, 19W)
yyyy	Year.
trackfile	Output file.

Definition at line 21 of file track.py.

def pom.track.qck	(		astr,
			bstr
	)

Quality check function: if a>b or b is 999, returns -999, otherwise returns b.

Parameters

astr,bstr

string values containing integers a and b

Definition at line 72 of file track.py.

Referenced by pom.track.get_vitals().

def pom.track.track_shorten	(		fin,
			fout,
			ymdh,
			logger = None
	)

Removes unwanted parts of the track file from get_vitals()

Parameters

fin,fout	input and output files
ymdh	date and hour of interest as a ten digit number in a string
logger	a logging.Logger for log messages

Returns

0 on error, or the number of lines kept in fin otherwise

Definition at line 81 of file track.py.