support of vertical cross sections beyond 30km altitude

Joern Ungermann reporter

Practically, the upper altitude is limited to 20hPa by the QT Gui interface. This can be simply relaxed to 1 hPa. Higher altitudes can be allowed, if fractional hPa values would be allowed.

Second, for labelling the axes beyond 30km, the pressure/gph conversion needs to be implemented and the tick labels need to be set.

Further, the synamic labelling of the y-axis for pressure is kind of broken and it is practically fixed to 100 hPa steps, which are not thaaat sensible.

2019-01-18T09:33:55+00:00

Anveshan Lal

Hello @joernu76, Can I take up this issue? Also can you guide me a little bit on how to approach it?

2019-03-09T11:20:40+00:00

Joern Ungermann reporter

Hi @funnelferry, yes please take this up. It can be approached in a couple of rather simple steps.

The vertical extent of the SideView View is currently limited by a pressure range configurable in the Options dialogue. The lowest upper limit is given by the pressure of 20 hPa. Changing this to 1 would be a first step. The field for entering this needs to be modified in mslib/msui/ui/ui_sideview_options.ui using either the PyQT Designer or a simple text editor. Afterwards the mslib/msui/qt5/ui_sideview_options.py file needs to be generated (see. e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43028904/converting-ui-to-py-with-python-3-6-on-pyqt5).

That is the first step.

Second, you will notice that the vertical labelling does not continue up to 1 hPa (or whatever vertical axis type has been chosen) but stops early. In mslib/msui/mpl_qtwidget.py in the Class MplSideViewCanvas there is a function "redraw_yaxis" responsible for drawing the vertical axis. This needs to be changed accordingly.

Does this give you a starting point?