The Python ARM Radar Toolkit (Py-ART), a library for working with weather radar data in the Python programming language
Abstract
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.
- Authors:
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- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- Argonne National Laboratory; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1339572
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Open Research Software
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2049-9647
- Publisher:
- Software Sustainability Institute
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; doppler velocity; Python; radar; weather; weather radar
Citation Formats
Helmus, Jonathan J., and Collis, Scott M. The Python ARM Radar Toolkit (Py-ART), a library for working with weather radar data in the Python programming language. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.5334/jors.119.
Helmus, Jonathan J., & Collis, Scott M. The Python ARM Radar Toolkit (Py-ART), a library for working with weather radar data in the Python programming language. United States. https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.119
Helmus, Jonathan J., and Collis, Scott M. Mon .
"The Python ARM Radar Toolkit (Py-ART), a library for working with weather radar data in the Python programming language". United States. https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.119. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1339572.
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abstractNote = {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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year = {Mon Jul 18 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
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