mssautoplot - A CLI tool for automation

A CLI tool which enables users to download a set of plots according to the given configuration. The configuration for downloading the plots is located in “mssautoplot.json”. In this file you can specify the default settings.

How to use

The CLI tool has the following parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description
`--cpath`	TEXT	Path of the config file where the configuration is specified.
`--ftrack`	TEXT	Flight track.
`--itime`	TEXT	Initial time.
`--vtime`	TEXT	Valid time.
`--intv`	INTEGER	Time interval in hours.
`--stime`	TEXT	Starting time for downloading multiple plots with a fixed interval.
`--etime`	TEXT	Ending time for downloading multiple plots with a fixed interval.

A short description of how to start the program is given by the --help option.

Examples

Here are a few examples on how to use this tool,

mssautoplot --cpath mssautoplot.json

The above command downloads the required number of plots with the default settings from mss_autoplot.json into the output folder.

mssautoplot --cpath mssautoplot.json --itime="" --vtime="2019-09-02T00:00:00"

The above command will download all the plots configured in mss_autoplot.json of initial time “” and valid time “2019-09-02T00:00:00”. This can be used to create a daily “standard set” of plots with/without an actual flight track, e.g., for daily morning briefings

For downloading plots of multiple flight tracks, specify the flight track and it’s configuration in mss_autoplot.json. This can be used to create a “standard set” of plots for all actual flights of a campaign. See below:

“automated_plotting_flights”: [: [“flight1”, “section1”, “vertical1”, “filename1”, “init_time1”, “time1”] [“flight2”, “section2, “vertical2”, “filename2”, “init_time2”, “time2”]]

mssautoplot --cpath mssautoplot.json --stime="2019-09-01T00:00:00" --etime="2019-09-02T00:00:00" --intv=6

The above command will download plots of the with/without flight track from start time “2019-09-01T00:00:00” to end time “2019-09-02T00:00:00”. The user would need to compulsorily specify the init_time and time in mss_autoplot.json inorder to use this functionality.

Settings file

This file includes configuration settings to generate plots in automated fashion. It includes,

View

URL of the WMS server

URL of mscolab server

List of layers to be plotted

Style

Elevation

List of initial time and forecast hours

List of flight paths

List of operations (from MSCOLAB)

Level

Map section

Resolution of the plot

Path of output folder

If you don’t have a mss_autoplot.json then default configuration is in place.

Store this mss_autoplot.json in a path, e.g. “$HOME/.config/msui”

/$HOME/.config/msui/mssautoplot.json

{
    "view":"topview"
    "data_dir": "~/mssdata",
    "filepicker_default": "default",

    "import_plugins": {
        "FliteStar": ["fls", "mslib.plugins.io.flitestar", "load_from_flitestar"],
        "Text": ["txt", "mslib.plugins.io.text", "load_from_txt"]
    },

    "export_plugins": {
        "Text": ["txt", "mslib.plugins.io.text", "save_to_txt"],
        "KML": ["kml", "mslib.plugins.io.kml", "save_to_kml"],
        "GPX": ["gpx", "mslib.plugins.io.gpx", "save_to_gpx"]
        },


    "layout": {
       "topview": [963, 702],
       "sideview": [913, 557],
       "tableview": [1236, 424],
       "immutable": false
     },

    "locations": {
        "EDMO": [48.08, 11.28],
        "Hannover": [52.37, 9.74],
        "Hamburg": [53.55, 9.99],
        "Juelich": [50.92, 6.36],
        "Leipzig": [51.34, 12.37],
        "Muenchen": [48.14, 11.57],
        "Stuttgart": [48.78, 9.18],
        "Wien": [48.20833, 16.373064],
        "Zugspitze": [47.42, 10.98],
        "Kiruna": [67.821, 20.336],
        "Ny-Alesund": [78.928, 11.986]
    },

    "predefined_map_sections": {
        "01 Europe (cyl)": {"CRS": "EPSG:4326",
                            "map": {"llcrnrlon": -15.0, "llcrnrlat": 35.0,
                                    "urcrnrlon": 30.0, "urcrnrlat": 65.0}},
        "02 Germany (cyl)": {"CRS": "EPSG:4326",
                             "map": {"llcrnrlon": 5.0, "llcrnrlat": 45.0,
                                     "urcrnrlon": 15.0, "urcrnrlat": 57.0}},
        "03 Global (cyl)": {"CRS": "EPSG:4326",
                            "map": {"llcrnrlon": -180.0, "llcrnrlat": -90.0,
                                    "urcrnrlon": 180.0, "urcrnrlat": 90.0}},
        "04 Shannon (stereo)": {"CRS": "EPSG:77752350",
                                "map": {"llcrnrlon": -45.0, "llcrnrlat": 22.0,
                                        "urcrnrlon": 45.0, "urcrnrlat": 63.0}},
        "05 Northern Hemisphere (stereo)": {"CRS": "EPSG:77790000",
                                            "map": {"llcrnrlon": -45.0, "llcrnrlat": 0.0,
                                                    "urcrnrlon": 135.0, "urcrnrlat": 0.0}},
        "06 Southern Hemisphere (stereo)": {"CRS": "EPSG:77890000",
                                            "map": {"llcrnrlon": 45.0, "llcrnrlat": 0.0,
                                                    "urcrnrlon": -135.0, "urcrnrlat": 0.0}}
    },

   "new_flighttrack_template": ["Kiruna", "Ny-Alesund"],
   "new_flighttrack_flightlevel": 250,
   "num_interpolation_points": 201,
   "num_labels": 10,

   "WMS_request_timeout": 30,

   "default_WMS": ["http://www.your-server.de/forecasts"],
   "default_VSEC_WMS": ["http://www.your-server.de/forecasts"],
   "default_LSEC_WMS": ["http://www.your-server.de/forecasts"],

   "default_MSCOLAB": ["http://www.your-mscolab-server.de/"],
   "MSS_auth": {
                  "http://www.your-server.de/forecasts": "authuser",
                  "http://www.your-mscolab-server.de": "authuser"
                },

   "automated_plotting_flights": [
           ["", "", "", "", "", ""]
   ],
   "automated_plotting_hsecs": [
           ["", "", "", ""]
   ],
   "automated_plotting_vsecs": [
           ["","", "", ""]
   ],
   "automated_plotting_lsecs": [
           ["", "", ""]
   ],

   "MSCOLAB_operations": []
}