rawacf_mapping¶
RAWACF SDARN FIELDS
This conversion is done in pyDARNio here in the __convert_rawacf_record method: Link to Source
SDARN DMAP FIELD NAME
type
SDARN description
|
Borealis Conversion |
|---|---|
radar.revision.major
char
Major version number
|
borealis_git_hash major version number
or 255 if not a commit with a version tag
|
radar.revision.minor
char
Minor version number
|
borealis_git_hash minor version number
or 255 if not a commit with a version tag
|
origin.code
char
Code indicating origin of data
|
= 100, this can be used as a flag that the
origin code was Borealis
|
origin.time
string
ASCII representation of when
the data was generated
|
timestamp_of_write conversion
|
origin.command
string
The command line or control
program used to generate the
data
|
Borealis vXXX + borealis_git_hash +
experiment_name
|
cp
short
Control program identifier
|
experiment_id, truncated to short
|
stid
short
Station identifier
|
station conversion
|
time.yr
short
Year
|
sqn_timestamps [0] conversion
|
time.mo
short
Month
|
sqn_timestamps [0] conversion
|
time.dy
short
Day
|
sqn_timestamps [0] conversion
|
time.hr
short
Hour
|
sqn_timestamps [0] conversion
|
time.mt
short
Minute
|
sqn_timestamps [0] conversion
|
time.sc
short
Second
|
sqn_timestamps [0] conversion
|
time.us
short
Microsecond
|
sqn_timestamps [0] conversion
|
txpow
short
Transmitted power (kW)
|
= -1 (filler)
|
nave
short
Number of pulse sequences
transmitted
|
num_sequences
|
atten
short
Attenuation level
|
= 0 (filler)
|
lagfr
short
Lag to first range
(microseconds)
|
first_range_rtt
|
smsep
short
Sample separation
(microseconds)
|
(rx_sample_rate)^ -1
|
ercod
short
Error code
|
= 0 (filler)
|
stat.agc
short
AGC status word
|
= agc_status_word
|
stat.lopwr
short
LOPWR status word
|
= lp_status_word
|
noise.search
float
Calculated noise from clear
frequency search
|
noise_at_freq [0] conversion
|
noise.mean
float
Average noise across frequency
band
|
= 0 (filler)
|
channel
short
Channel number for a stereo
radar (zero for all others)
|
slice_id
|
bmnum
short
Beam number
|
beam_nums [i]
|
bmazm
float
Beam azimuth
|
beam_azms [i]
|
scan
short
Scan flag
|
scan_start_marker (0 or 1)
|
offset
short
Offset between channels for a
stereo radar (zero for all
others)
|
= 0 (filler)
|
rxrise
short
Receiver rise time
(microseconds)
|
= 0.0
|
intt.sc
short
Whole number of seconds of
integration time.
|
int_time conversion
|
intt.us
short
Fractional number of
microseconds of integration
time
|
int_time conversion
|
txpl
short
Transmit pulse length
(microseconds)
|
tx_pulse_len
|
mpinc
short
Multi-pulse increment
(microseconds)
|
tau_spacing
|
mppul
short
Number of pulses in sequence
|
len(pulses)
|
mplgs
short
Number of lags in sequence
|
lags.shape[0]
|
nrang
short
Number of ranges
|
correlation_dimensions [1]
|
frang
short
Distance to first range
(kilometers)
|
first_range
|
rsep
short
Range separation (kilometers)
|
range_sep
|
xcf
short
XCF flag
|
If xcfs exist, then =1
|
tfreq
short
Transmitted frequency
|
freq
|
mxpwr
int
Maximum power (kHz)
|
= -1 (filler)
|
lvmax
int
Maximum noise level allowed
|
= 20000 (filler)
|
rawacf.revision.major
int
Major version number of the
rawacf format
|
= 255
|
rawacf.revision.minor
int
Minor version number of the
rawacf format
|
= 255
|
combf
string
Comment buffer
Comment buffer
|
Original Borealis filename, ‘converted
from Borealis file beam number ’ X,
number of beams in this original record
(len(beam_nums)), experiment_comment and
slice_comment from the file
|
thr
float
Thresholding factor
|
= 0.0 (filler)
|
ptab[mppul]
short
Pulse table
|
pulses
|
ltab[2][mplgs]
short
Lag table
|
np.transpose(lags)
|
pwr0[nrang]
[float]
Lag zero power for main
|
Calculated from main_acfs
|
slist[0-nrang]
[short]
List of stored ranges, length
dependent on SNR. Lists the
range gate of each stored ACF
|
range(0,*correlation_dimensions*.size[1])
|
acfd[2][mplgs][0-nrang]
[short]
Calculated ACFs
|
main_acfs conversion, real and imag
|
xcfd[2][mplgs][0-nrang]
[short]
Calculated XCFs
|
xcfs conversion, real and imag
|
If blanked_samples != ptab, or pulse_phase_offset contains non-zeroes, no conversion to dmap rawacf is possible.