Crate dipr

Convert the National Weather Service’s (NWS) Digital Instantaneous Precipitation Rate (DIPR) radar product from its native data format into more common vector GIS formats

The DIPR radar product is useful for observing and predicting precipitation on small time and distance scales (less than 10 km or 60 minutes). This forecasting niche is called nowcasting.

NWS defines the DIPR format in this specification document.

Structs

PrecipRate

Semantically useful representation of a DIPR product file

Radial

Precipitation rates measured in a particular direction

inch_per_hour

inches per hour

Enums

DiprError

Indicates a product-specific parsing error or wraps a lower-level error

Functions

parse_dipr

Convert a byte slice into a PrecipRate or return an error

Type Aliases

ParseResult

Convenient wrapper around Result