📚 Tutorials

SounderPy tutorials are task-oriented guides designed to teach complete workflows. They complement the API/reference pages by showing how commonly used features fit together in practice.

If you are new to SounderPy, begin with Plot Appearance & Accessibility or Working with Data Sources, then continue to the more specialized plotting and workflow tutorials.

SounderPy Tutorials

• 🎨 Plot Appearance & Accessibility
• 🗺️ Maps & Radar
• 🧪 Parcel Settings
• 🌀 Hodograph Options
• 🌎 Working with Data Sources
• 📚 Composite Soundings
• 💾 Exporting Data
• 💻 Command Line Workflows

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Tutorial Overview

🎨 Plot Appearance & Accessibility

Compare light and dark plot themes, color-deficiency-friendly sounding colors, figure resolution, and saved output.

🗺️ Maps & Radar

Control the map inset, map zoom, single-site WSR-88D reflectivity, recent radar mosaics, and radar timing.

🧪 Parcel Settings

Learn the difference between default, simple, and custom parcel configurations, including SounderPy’s parcel-code structure.

🌀 Hodograph Options

Work with ground-relative and storm-relative hodographs, Bunkers storm motions, custom storm motion, and hodograph boundary overlays.

🌎 Working with Data Sources

Retrieve RAOB, RAP/RUC, BUFKIT, and ACARS profiles and understand the common clean_data structure that allows the same plotting and analysis tools to work across different sources.

📚 Composite Soundings

Compare profiles through time or across datasets using build_composite(), including custom colors, line styles, opacity, and shading.

💾 Exporting Data

Export clean_data profiles to CSV, SHARPpy, and CM1 formats and understand when each format is useful.

💻 Command Line Workflows

Use the SounderPy CLI for retrieval, plotting, export, JSON output, shell redirection, and simple batch workflows.

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Gallery Figures

See the Plot Gallery for a visual overview of the generated examples.