Ingesting GPS derived Zenith total delay

[Ahunegnaw]

I'm very much interested in running pysteps and particularity if zenith total delay (proxy to precipitation) derived from GPS can be ingested/ assimilated to pysteps in addition to radar image. I could produce gridded zenith total delay in near-real time from a dense network of GPS station, and I wanted to know if there is a way to ingest these data set? I would like to hear your suggestions.

[aperezhortal]

Hi @Zaccarias, welcome to pySTEPS!

The nowcasting functions in pysteps are independent of any importer as long as your data is in a regular cartesian grid (let's call them "images"). Once you have a temporal sequence of images, you can run the nowcast as in this example.

Additionally, you can also write your own importer plugin to have better integration with other pysteps utilities.

I hope this helps.

[aperezhortal]

Hi @Zaccarias, following up on this issue, were you able to ingest the GPS data? Do you need additional help ?