WOUDC Evaluation

Provides infrastructure to evaluate model against WOUDC sonde network.

Quick Start

• Search for OzoneSondes and download "Data File URLs" format from woudc.org
• save downloaded urls.csv in this folder
• Edit Makefile and then type make
  • set YYYY in Makefile to the year for evaluation
  • set MODTMP to a strftime template for model (e.g., /path/ACONC_%Y%m%d)
• Run make

Prerequisites

• Model output for comparison (CMAQ, CAMx, or GEOS-Chem)
• Python (3 recommended)
  • pandas
  • numpy
  • matplotlib
  • PseudoNetCDF

Steps

1. Create a urls.csv file from woudc.org data search that points to all sonde files you want to download.
2. Download all sondes from URLs (make dataupdated).
3. Create a metadata file locations.json (make locations.json).
4. Update Makefile to point to your model data (manual).
5. Create NetCDF files (make ncupdated).
6. Create figures (make -C figs)

Directory Structure

./
 |- README.md
 |- urls.csv*
 |- Makefile
 |- extract_sondes.py
 |- filecleaner.py
 |- getlocs.py
 |- locations.json
 |- data/
 |- mod/
 |- obs/
 |- figs/