dmsp 0.6.0

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