ReconDataset.get_vdms¶

ReconDataset.get_vdms(data=None)[source]¶

Retrieve Vortex Data Messages (VDMs) for this storm.

Parameters: data (str, optional) – String representing the path of a pickle file containing VDM data, saved via vdms.to_pickle(). If none, data is read from NHC.

Notes

This function has no return value, but stores the resulting VDMs object within this ReconDataset instance. All of its methods can then be accessed as follows, for the following example storm:

from tropycal import tracks

#Read basin dataset
basin = tracks.TrackDataset()

#Read storm object
storm = basin.get_storm(('michael',2018))

#Read VDM data
storm.recon.get_vdms()

#Plot all VDM points
storm.recon.vdms.plot_points()