Add Pandora Project data to IO/Discovery modules

[jrobrien91]

Description

During the 2023 ARM-ASR Joint PI meeting, suggestions for additional IO were provided by the audience. Connor Flynn (OU) had a suggestion of the HySPLIT back trajectory files that would be of interest to TRACER, SAIL and upcoming urban campaigns

[jrobrien91]

Additional support that may be of interest for upcoming urban campaigns is the Pandora Project, offering the ability to collocate surface AQ observations with total column observations

[jrobrien91]

This may be of interest, was published PySPLIT, and mentioned on NOAA's HYSPLIT page

[AdamTheisen]

@jrobrien91 thanks for capturing this! I am not sure if we want to get into hysplit trajectories. The Pandora data looks like it's consistent enough where we could get a discovery and io function going for it. There do look to be a lot in the Baltimore area so this could have some good synergy with the ARM AMF deployment. Let's focus on that as part of this issue.

[AdamTheisen]

Just as a note here. We discussed this on the ACT call and it was noted that there still might be value in the ability to read in Hysplit files. In looking at PySplit, it does not appear to be actively maintained and at a basic level we could provide the capability to read in the data from a file or from the online generator (url). The format seems simple enough. I'm going to modify the title of this and open another issue for Hysplit

https://www.ready.noaa.gov/hypub/trajinfo.html#FORMAT

[zssherman]

Can we close this? I see we added in a hysplit reader

[jrobrien91]

@AdamTheisen @zssherman I would prefer to leave this open. It's on my to-do list if we ever get a chance or maybe we can sit down and discuss it @zssherman. A Pandora reader would be incredibly useful and fits into our scope similar to the LiDARs. Especially with Pandora sites in Chicago and near Baltimore, it would be helpful to look at things like ozone aloft

[zssherman]

Sounds good! I wasn't too sure if hysplit covered it or not