The Python ARM Radar Toolkit (Py-ART), a library for working with weather radar data in the Python programming language

Helmus, Jonathan J.; Collis, Scott M.

doi:10.5334/jors.119

The Python ARM Radar Toolkit (Py-ART), a library for working with weather radar data in the Python programming language

Journal Article · Mon Jul 18 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Journal of Open Research Software

DOI:https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.119· OSTI ID:1339572

Helmus, Jonathan J. ^[1]; Collis, Scott M. ^[1]

Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

The Python ARM Radar Toolkit is a package for reading, visualizing, correcting and analysing data from weather radars. Development began to meet the needs of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility and has since expanded to provide a general-purpose framework for working with data from weather radars in the Python programming language. The toolkit is built on top of libraries in the Scientific Python ecosystem including NumPy, SciPy, and matplotlib, and makes use of Cython for interfacing with existing radar libraries written in C and to speed up computationally demanding algorithms. As a result, the source code for the toolkit is available on GitHub and is distributed under a BSD license.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1339572

Journal Information:: Journal of Open Research Software, Journal Name: Journal of Open Research Software Vol. 4; ISSN 2049-9647

Publisher:: Software Sustainability InstituteCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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