WSR-88D (NEXRAD)
HDF (TSDIS format)
LASSEN (version 1.3 and version 1.4 files)
Universal Format (UF)
NSIG (SIGMET version 1 and version 2 raw product files)
MCGILL
RSL output format
RADTEC (SPANDAR, requires PKWARE compression tools)
DORADE
For TOGA and KWAJALEIN files, there is no standard magic information available. It may not be possible for RSL_anyformat_to_radar to recognize them. The optional second argument is valid for reading wsr88d files. See RSL_wsr88d_to_radar. Once the file type is determined, the appropriate ingest routine is called.
In order to reduce the memory requirements during ingest, you can call RSL_select_fields to specify the field types. For instance, you can select to read only DZ from the input file. The input file may contain other fields, but, they will be ignored.
PKWARE compression tools are required for the RADTEC module. The
data has been
compressed with implode and must be uncompressed with explode
.
Author: John H. Merritt.