act-atmos 0.1.0

Package for working with atmospheric time series datasets

Package for connecting Atmospheric data users to the data. Has the ability to download, read, and visualize multi-file datasets from multiple data sources. Currently, multi-panel timeseries plots are supported.

• Free software: 3-clause BSD license

Important Links

• Documentation: https://anl-digr.github.io/ACT/

• Examples: https://anl-digr.github.io/ACT/source/auto_examples/index.html

• Issue Tracker: https://github.com/ANL-DIGR/ACT/issues

Dependencies

• NumPy

• SciPy

• matplotlib

• xarray

• astral

• pandas

• dask

Installing from Source

Installing ACT from source is the only way to get the latest updates and enhancement to the software that have no yet made it into a release. The latest source code for ACT can be obtained from the GitHub repository, https://github.com/ANL-DIGR/ACT. Either download and unpack the zip file of the source code or use git to checkout the repository:

git clone https://github.com/ANL-DIGR/ACT.git

To install in your home directory, use:

python setup.py install --user

To install for all users on Unix/Linux:

python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install

Contributing

ACT is an open source, community software project. Contributions to the package are welcomed from all users.

The latest source code can be obtained with the command:

git clone https://github.com/ANL-DIGR/ACT.git

If you are planning on making changes that you would like included in ACT, forking the repository is highly recommended.

We welcome contributions for all uses of ACT, provided the code can be distributed under the BSD 3-clause license. A copy of this license is available in the LICENSE.txt file in this directory. For more on contributing, see the contributor’s guide.

Testing

After installation, you can launch the test suite from outside the source directory (you will need to have pytest installed):

$ pytest --pyargs act

In-place installs can be tested using the pytest command from within the source directory.