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Create a 'vol2bird' configuration instance

Source: R/vol2bird_config.R
vol2bird_config.Rd

Creates or copies a 'vol2bird' configuration instance of class Rcpp_Vol2BirdConfig

Usage

vol2bird_config(config)

Arguments

config

a configuration instance to be copied.

Value

an object of class Rcpp_Vol2BirdConfig

Details

Copying configuration instances

All processing options for vol2bird() are set using a configuration instance of class Rcpp_Vol2BirdConfig In some cases it might be necessary to copy and modify configuration instance, for example when processing polar volume files with different settings. In these cases you can't copy the instance like:

config<-vol2bird_config()
extra_config<-config

In the above example, the config and extra_config instances will both refer to the same object. (copy by reference). To avoid this (and make a copy by value), use:

config<-vol2bird_config()
# create a copy identical to object config:
extra_config<-vol2bird_config(config)

User configuration options

The Rcpp_Vol2BirdConfig class object sets the following 'vol2bird' processing options:

  • azimMax: Numeric. The minimum azimuth (0-360 degrees) used for constructing the bird density profile

  • azimMin: Numeric. The maximum azimuth (0-360 degrees) used for constructing the bird density profile

  • birdRadarCrossSection: Numeric. Radar cross section in cm^2

  • clutterMap: Character. clutter map path and filename

  • clutterValueMin: Numeric. sample volumes in the static cluttermap with a value above this threshold will be considered clutter-contaminated. Default 0.1

  • dbzType: Character. Reflectivity factor quantity to use. Default DBZH

  • dualPol: Logical. Whether to use dual-pol moments for filtering meteorological echoes. Default TRUE

  • elevMax: Numeric. The minimum scan elevation in degrees used for constructing the bird density profile

  • elevMin: Numeric. The maximum scan elevation in degrees used for constructing the bird density profile

  • layerThickness: Numeric. The width/thickness of an altitude layer in m. Default 200

  • mistNetPath: Character. Path of 'MistNet' segmentation model in pytorch (.pt) format

  • nLayers: Integer. The number of layers in an altitude profile. Default 25

  • radarWavelength: Numeric. The radar wavelength in cm to assume when unavailable as an attribute in the input file. Default 5.3

  • rangeMax: Numeric. The maximum range in m used for constructing the bird density profile. Default 35000

  • rangeMin: Numeric. The minimum range in m used for constructing the bird density profile. Default 5000

  • rhohvThresMin: Numeric. Correlation coefficients higher than this threshold will be classified as precipitation. Default 0.95

  • singlePol: Logical. Whether to use single-pol moments for filtering meteorological echoes. Default TRUE

  • stdDevMinBird: Numeric. VVP Radial velocity standard deviation threshold. Default 2 m/s.

  • useClutterMap: Logical. Whether to use a static clutter map. Default FALSE

  • useMistNet: Logical. Whether to use the 'MistNet' segmentation model. Default FALSE.

Advanced configuration options

Changing these settings is rarely needed.

  • cellEtaMin: Numeric. Maximum mean reflectivity in cm^2/km^3 for cells containing birds

  • cellStdDevMax: Numeric. When analyzing precipitation cells, only cells for which the stddev of vrad (aka the texture) is less than cellStdDevMax are considered in the rest of the analysis

  • dbzThresMin: Numeric. Minimum reflectivity factor of a gate to be considered for inclusion in a weather cell. Default 0 dBZ

  • dealiasRecycle: Logical. Whether we should dealias all data once (default TRUE), or dealias for each profile individually (FALSE)

  • dealiasVrad: Logical. Whether we should dealias the radial velocities. Default TRUE.

  • etaMax: Numeric. Maximum reflectivity in cm^2/km^3 for single gates containing birds. Default 36000

  • exportBirdProfileAsJSONVar: Logical. Deprecated, do not use. Default FALSE

  • fitVrad: Logical. Whether or not to fit a model to the observed vrad. Default TRUE

  • maxNyquistDealias: Numeric. When all scans have nyquist velocity higher than this value, dealiasing is suppressed. Default 25 m/s.

  • minNyquist: Numeric. Scans with Nyquist velocity lower than this value are excluded. Default 5 m/s.

  • mistNetElevs: Numeric vector of length 5. Elevations to use in Cartesian projection for 'MistNet'. Default c(0.5, 1.5, 2.5, 3.5, 4.5)

  • mistNetElevsOnly: Logical. When TRUE (default), use only the specified elevation scans for 'MistNet' to calculate profile, otherwise use all available elevation scans

  • requireVrad: Logical. For a range gate to contribute it should have a valid radial velocity. Default FALSE

  • resample: Logical. Whether to resample the input polar volume. Downsampling speeds up the calculation. Default FALSE

  • resampleNbins: Numeric. Resampled number of range bins. Ignored when resample is FALSE. Default 100

  • resampleNrays: Numeric. Resampled number of azimuth bins. Ignored when resample is FALSE. Default 360

  • resampleRscale: Numeric. Resampled range gate length in m. Ignored when resample is FALSE. Default 500 m.

Algorithm constants

Changing any of these constants is not recommended

  • constant_absVDifMax: Numeric. After fitting the radial velocity data, throw out any VRAD observations that are more than absVDifMax away from the fitted value as outliers. Default 10

  • constant_areaCellMin: Numeric. When analyzing cells, areaCellMin determines the minimum size of a cell to be considered in the rest of the analysis. in km^2. Default 0.5

  • constant_cellClutterFractionMax: Cells with clutter fractions above this value are likely not birds. Default 0.5

  • constant_chisqMin: Minimum standard deviation of the VVP fit. Default 1e-05

  • constant_fringeDist: Each identified weather cell is grown by a distance equal to 'fringeDist' using a region-growing approach. Default 5000

  • constant_nAzimNeighborhood: vrad's texture is calculated based on the local neighborhood. The neighborhood size in the azimuth direction is equal to this value. Default 3

  • constant_nBinsGap: When determining whether there are enough vrad observations in each direction, use nBinsGap sectors. Default 8

  • constant_nCountMin: The minimum number of neighbors for the texture value to be considered valid, as used in calcTexture(). Default 4

  • constant_nNeighborsMin: the minimum number of direct neighbors with dbz value above dbzThresMin as used in findWeatherCells(). Default 5

  • constant_nObsGapMin: there should be at least this many vrad observations in each sector. Default 5

  • constant_nPointsIncludedMin: when calculating the altitude-layer averaged dbz, there should be at least this many valid data points. Default 25

  • constant_nRangNeighborhood: vrad's texture is calculated based on the local neighborhood. The neighborhood size in the range direction is equal to this value. Default 3

  • constant_refracIndex: Refractive index of the scatterers. Default equal to water 0.964

  • constant_vradMin: When analyzing cells, radial velocities lower than vradMin are treated as clutter. Default 1 m/s.

Debug printing options

Enable these printing options only for debugging purposes in a terminal, since large amounts of data will be dumped into the console.

  • printCell: Logical. Print precipitation cell data to stderr. Default FALSE

  • printCellProp: Logical. Print precipitation cell properties to stderr. Default FALSE

  • printClut: Logical. Print clutter data to stderr. Default FALSE

  • printDbz: Logical. Print reflectivity factor data to stderr. Default FALSE

  • printDealias: Logical. FALSE

  • printOptions: Logical. Print options to stderr. Default FALSE

  • printPointsArray: Logical. Print the 'points' array to stderr. Default FALSE

  • printProfileVar: Logical. Print profile data to stderr. Default FALSE

  • printRhohv: Logical. Print correlation coefficient data to stderr. Default FALSE

  • printTex: Logical. Print radial velocity texture data to stderr. Default FALSE

  • printVrad: Logical. Print radial velocity data to stderr. Default FALSE

See also

Examples

# create a configuration instance
config <- vol2bird_config()
# list the the configuration elements:
config
#> 'vol2bird' configuration:
#>  $ azimMax                        : num 360
#>  $ azimMin                        : num 0
#>  $ birdRadarCrossSection          : num 11
#>  $ cellEtaMin                     : num 11500
#>  $ cellStdDevMax                  : num 5
#>  $ clutterMap                     : chr ""
#>  $ clutterValueMin                : num 0.1
#>  $ dbzThresMin                    : num 0
#>  $ dbzType                        : chr "DBZH"
#>  $ dealiasRecycle                 : logi TRUE
#>  $ dealiasVrad                    : logi TRUE
#>  $ dualPol                        : logi TRUE
#>  $ elevMax                        : num 90
#>  $ elevMin                        : num 0
#>  $ etaMax                         : num 36000
#>  $ exportBirdProfileAsJSONVar     : logi FALSE
#>  $ fitVrad                        : logi TRUE
#>  $ layerThickness                 : num 200
#>  $ maxNyquistDealias              : num 25
#>  $ minNyquist                     : num 5
#>  $ mistNetElevs                   : num [1:5] 0.5 1.5 2.5 3.5 4.5
#>  $ mistNetElevsOnly               : logi TRUE
#>  $ mistNetPath                    : chr "/private/var/folders/hd/9xhq1cqn6z95c7y1s7g7pwvr0000gn/T/Rtmpxwvd2K/temp_libpathcb06631bd25/vol2birdR/data/mistnet_nexrad.pt"
#>  $ nLayers                        : int 25
#>  $ radarWavelength                : num 5.3
#>  $ rangeMax                       : num 35000
#>  $ rangeMin                       : num 5000
#>  $ requireVrad                    : logi FALSE
#>  $ resample                       : logi FALSE
#>  $ resampleNbins                  : int 100
#>  $ resampleNrays                  : int 360
#>  $ resampleRscale                 : num 500
#>  $ rhohvThresMin                  : num 0.95
#>  $ singlePol                      : logi TRUE
#>  $ stdDevMinBird                  : num 2
#>  $ useClutterMap                  : logi FALSE
#>  $ useMistNet                     : logi FALSE
# change the maximum range included in the profile generation to 40 km:
config$rangeMax <- 40000
# make a copy of the configuration instance:
config_copy <- vol2bird_config(config)