A desktop application for decoding meteorological upper-air sounding messages made with Python, and Qt Framework.
Download Sonde_v1a.zip here.
Users can open .txt files that contain sounding data and the raw code will be automatically inserted in the input text field.
or copying from websites that upload soundings and pasting it on the input text field.
Before decoding the data, = should be omitted at the end. This is to ensure that Sea Surface Data are decoded properly and not return an Invalid result.
Errors will be raised once an incorrect format and syntax is detected.
A dialog window containing the result will appear once Decode is clicked.
.xlsx and .xls are currently the only available formats for saving.
References for analysing the sounding results for: Solar, Radiosonde, Tracking System, and Cloud data are included in the release package of the software. The Federal Meteorological Handbook No. 3 is also available here.