ReconDataset.find_mission¶

ReconDataset.find_mission(time=None, distance=None)[source]¶

Returns the name of a mission or list of recon missions for this storm.

Parameters

time (datetime.datetime or list, optional) – Datetime object or list of datetime objects representing the time of the requested mission. If none, all missions will be returned.
distance (int, optional) – Distance from storm center, in kilometers.

Returns

list – The IDs of any/all missions that had in-storm observations during the specified time.

Notes

Especially in earlier years, missions are not always numbered sequentially (e.g., the first mission might not have an ID of “01”).

To get a Mission object for one or more mission IDs, use the mission ID as an argument in ReconDataset.get_mission(). For example, to retrieve a Mission object for every mission valid at a requested time, assuming that ReconDataset is linked to a Storm object:

#Enter a requested time here
import datetime as dt
requested_time = dt.datetime(2020,8,12,12) #enter your requested time here

#Get all active mission ID(s), if any, for this time
mission_ids = storm.recon.find_mission(requested_time)

#Get Mission object for each mission
for mission_id in mission_ids:
    mission = storm.recon.get_mission(mission_id)
    print(mission)