iricore 1.8.0

A Python wraper to the Inernational Ionosphere Model

iricore

A Python interface to IRI-2016 and IRI-2020 using ctypes communication.

The extensive documentation is available at the RTD wbsite.

Installation

This package proved to work under Linux only (due to compilation difficulties in Windows). If you are using Windows - consider installing WSL.

Prerequisites

• CMAKE

sudo apt instal cmake

• Fortran compiler, e.g. gfortran

sudo apt isntall gfortran

Installing package

Now you can simply install it via pip:

python3 -m pip install iricore

Data files

IRI2016 model depends on data files which are regularly updated. iricore does not autoupdate those, but provides tool for quick update. You can run from terminal

python3 -c "import iricore; iricore.update()"

or add

import iricore
iricore.update()

to any Python script.