aerosoltools 0.1.0

Tools for loading and analyzing aerosol instrument data

aerosoltools

Tools for loading and analyzing aerosol instrument data

Overview

aerosoltools is a Python library developed at NFA for loading, processing, analyzing, and plotting data from a variety of aerosol instruments. It provides a consistent data structure for time-resolved and size-resolved measurements using Aerosol1D, Aerosol2D, and AerosolAlt classes.

The package includes loaders for common instrument exports and a batch-loading utility for processing entire folders.

For the full documenation, and examples of use, visit:

View the documentation

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🧰 Provided Loaders

Instrument	Function	Company
Aethalometer	Load_Aethalometer_file()	Magee Scientific
CPC	Load_CPC_file()	TSI Inc.
DiSCmini	Load_DiSCmini_file()	Testo
ELPI	Load_ELPI_file()	Dekati Ltd.
FMPS	Load_FMPS_file()	TSI Inc.
Fourtec	Load_Fourtec()	Fourtec Technologies
Grimm	Load_Grimm_file()	GRIMM Aerosol Technik
NS (NanoScan)	Load_NS_file()	TSI Inc.
OPC-N3	Load_OPCN3_file()	Alphasense Ltd.
OPS	Load_OPS_file()	TSI Inc.
Partector	Load_Partector_file()	naneos GmbH
SMPS	Load_SMPS_file()	TSI Inc.

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✨ Features

• Unified interface for loaded aerosoldata, automatically handling:
  • Datetime conversion
  • Particle data formatting
  • Bin edge/midpoint parsing
  • Dtype tracking e.g. dN, dV, dM, dS as well as normalization via dlogDp
  • Metadata extraction
• Batch loading via Load_data_from_folder()
• Functions for time shifting, cropping, rebinning, and smoothing
• Enables segmentation to group datapoints within specifc timeframes
• Returns structured objects for plotting, statistics, or export
• Functions to plot timeseries, PSD, and correlation plots

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📦 Installation

Soon to be published on PyPI

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Quickstart

Load a single instrument file

import aerosoltools as at

elpi = at.Load_ELPI_file("data/elpi_sample.txt")

elpi.plot_total()

Access metadata

elpi.metadata

Batch-load a folder of files

folder_path = "data/cpc_campaign/"

data = at.Load_data_from_folder(folder_path, loader=at.Load_CPC_file)

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License — see the LICENSE file for details.

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🙌 Acknowledgments

Developed by the NRCWE / NFA community to standardize and accelerate aerosol data workflows.

Feel free to contribute, submit issues, or request support!