dmsp 0.6.0

Load and plot UAF Geophysical Institute Digital Meridian Spectrometer data

Digital Meridian Spectrometer

For Geophysical Institute's Poker Flat Digital Meridian Spectrometer, which uses NetCDF

This library is also usable from Matlab, as seen in dmsp.m.

Data sources

• 2011-present: ftp://optics.gi.alaska.edu/PKR/DMSP/NCDF/
• 1983-2010 (NetCDF 3 .PF files)
• other dates

Install

python -m pip install -e .

Matlab

Matlab users need:

• Matlab ≥ R2018b
• dmsp package installed into the Python environment associated with Matlab

Usage

LoadMSPdata.py creates many plots.

Use as a Python module is like:

import dmsp

dat = dmsp.load('~/data/myfile.PF')

which returns xarray.Dataset

Notes

You can also graphically browse the files with the ncview program:

apt install ncview

Error: libnetcdf.so.7

if you get

ImportError: libnetcdf.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

try:

apt install libnetcdf-dev
python -m pip install netcdf4

or

conda install netcdf4