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Calculate altimiter values from station pressure? #3369

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nitrogen76 opened this issue Jan 21, 2024 · 2 comments
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Calculate altimiter values from station pressure? #3369

nitrogen76 opened this issue Jan 21, 2024 · 2 comments
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Area: Calc Pertains to calculations good first issue Straightforward issues suitable for new and inexperienced contributors to the project Type: Feature New functionality

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What should we add?

It would be nice (unless I can't figure out how to do this with existing code, which is absolutely a posibility also) to be able to calculate altimeter values from station pressure (and of course height), as well as sea level pressure from station pressure (and temp and height)

I see we have the reverse for both, but it'd be nice to be able to convert the opposite.

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Formula I currently use to do this in other code is this:
https://www.weather.gov/media/epz/wxcalc/stationPressure.pdf

But would be nice if I could do it in other code with metpy as well

@nitrogen76 nitrogen76 added the Type: Feature New functionality label Jan 21, 2024
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#2586 is related to this.

@dopplershift dopplershift added Area: Calc Pertains to calculations good first issue Straightforward issues suitable for new and inexperienced contributors to the project labels Feb 14, 2024
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We're probably not going to get to this for awhile, but would be happy to see someone tackle this, it should be straightforward. It doesn't look like the above PDF matches anything we do internally, so it would be good to track down a proper scholarly source for that if it's the best way to proceed.

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