radproc.raw.unzip_YW_binaries

radproc.raw.unzip_YW_binaries(zipFolder, outFolder)

Unzips RADOLAN YW binary data. Data have to be saved in monthly .tar or tar.gz archives (e.g. YWrea_200101.tar.gz, YWrea_200102.tar.gz), which contain daily archives with binary files.

If necessary, extracted binary files are zipped to .gz archives to save memory space on disk. Creates directory tree of style

<outFolder>/<year>/<month>/<binaries with data in temporal resolution of 5 minutes as .gz files>

Parameters:

zipFolder : string

Path of directory containing YW data as monthly tar / tar.gz archives to be unzipped. Archive names must contain year and month at end of basename: YWrea_200101.tar or YWrea_200101.tar.gz

outFolder : string

Path of output directory. Will be created if it doesn’t exist, yet.

Returns:

No return value