Getting Started

This page explains how to install and run the halodrops python package. The package includes functions to process the dropsonde data from raw files to datasets on uniform grids and including several derived meteorological variables.

To run halodrops on a set of dropsonde data, you first need to create a respective configuration file. An example and further infos are provided below. To run the halodrops pipeline, you need to provide the path to the config file:

 halodrops -c <config_file>

The processing from Level_0 to Level_1 (using aspen) is included in halodrops. It makes use of a docker image containing the ASPEN software. Before actually calling halodrops, you therefore need to install docker and start a docker daemon (dockerd) locally to be able to use the ASPEN docker image. The simplest way would be to install Docker Desktop (on MacOS also possible via brew install --cask docker) and open the application before executing halodrops. Further information can be found in the respective aspenqc repository.

Contents:

• Installation
• Config files