Composite Z bugs (issue and fix)

[dopplerchase]

In my original composite reflectivity code, I neglected that different sweeps can have different PRFs, which change the sensitivity and range. This created some odd artifacts like here:

To get around this, I have adjusted the composite reflectivity code to include a quick np.where call to find all the sweeps with the same nyquist as the lowest sweep. This gets rid of the hard artifacts:

I have added a bool flag to turn this on/off (not sure why someone would want to turn this off, but its there if people do).

I would guess in the future i should build it so you can select the specific nyquist, but for now this fix works.

[dopplerchase]

I have the code into the codebase locally, but need to run. I will try to get this pushed up next week.

[dopplerchase]

Do we know if the get_nyquist func works for all radars? @mgrover1

[dopplershift]

I feel like dropping ALL tilts that don't match the lowest Nyquist is going to be pretty hit or miss and affect vertical extent. For instance, this is for KFCX 2024-04-15 20:32Z (tilt num, angle, Nyquist):

VCP: 212
1 0.53 8.51
2 0.53 31.3
3 0.93 8.51
4 0.92 31.3
5 1.38 9.25
6 1.36 31.3
7 0.52 8.51
8 0.53 31.3
9 1.82 31.3
10 2.43 31.3
11 3.10 31.3
12 3.99 31.3
13 5.10 31.3
14 6.41 31.3

[scollis]

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[dopplerchase]

@dopplershift I agree, its a bit strong. But clearly from this case, things are getting weird in that doppler scan.

Should the default have the same_nyquist=False then if folks notice weird artifacts they have the power to turn it off?

Or should we apply some default gatefilter that cleans up the ugly data?

[dopplershift]

I'm curious to look at the sweeps and see just what's going on there...

[dopplershift]

Ok, so it looks like the SZ-2 phase coding for the range ambiguity resolution on the velocity cuts results in some kind of power bias. I'm rusty on my phase coding, but I don't remember that being a problem, but, it's clearly there, whatever.

The problem with your approach is that, for instance on this volume, it's only going to use the 0.5 and 0.9 cuts, nothing else:

1: 0.53 8.4
2: 0.53 30.92
3: 0.88 8.4
4: 0.88 30.92
5: 1.27 9.14
6: 1.32 30.92
7: 1.80 30.92
8: 2.42 30.92
9: 3.12 30.92
10: 0.53 8.4
11: 0.53 30.92
12: 3.96 30.92
13: 5.05 30.92
14: 6.37 30.92
15: 7.95 28.64
16: 9.98 30.92
17: 12.37 33.56
18: 15.47 33.56
19: 19.34 33.56

To me that's not a great composite Z product. There's also a general "issue" that needs to be dealt with (not sure if it is here) where SAILS can put another 0.5 cut in the volume--not sure whether that should be included.

Options I can think of:

• Look at the VCP information in the file and ignore sweeps that come from the "Doppler" sweeps on the SZ-2 phase coded split cuts
• Use some smart thresholding to only include a single sweep at a particular elevation angle from a volume, picking the lowest Nyquist to keep.
• Just live with the suboptimal behavior with the flag turned on.

[mgrover1]

@dopplerchase - if the nyquist velocity is in the instrument parameters, it will work! The method is implemented at the Radar object level, so it will across the readers.

pyart/pyart/core/radar.py

Line 609 in db95df7

def get_nyquist_vel(self, sweep, check_uniform=True):