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Extracting VIL Of A Particular Storm Track

OBJECTIVE : The objective of this workflow is to generate the ASCII files containing the VIL corresponding to the particular storm track numbers.

DATA : Archived data is used for 2017/07/09 and 2017/07/10 which is obtained from the radar site in Olds, Alberta, Canada.

Extracting the ASCII Data

Using the Application Tracks2Ascii

Download the Params File for Tracks2Ascii here: tracks2ascii.te.params

Run the following command from the command line to generate the ASCII file. 

Tracks2Ascii -f /home/Radar_Data/AHSP_TITAN_Backup_2/projDir.olds/data/titan/storms/20170709.th5 -params /home/Radar_Data/AHSP_TITAN_Backup_2/projDir.olds/Tracks2Ascii/Tracks2Ascii.te.params >> /home/Radar_Data/AHSP_TITAN_Backup_2/projDir.olds/Tracks2Ascii/20170709_storms.te.txt

The .te stands for TRACK_ENTRY type of target_entity in the params file. If COMPLETE_TRACK or INITIAL_PROPS is used as the target_entity then the .te should be replaced by .ct and .ip respectively.

NOTE: This application uses the storm track header files (.th5) as input and produces a .txt file as an output.