ac3airborne: AC3 airborne python tools

The package intents to make the access to the airborne data collected within the various AC3 airborne campaigns more easy. To make use of the package, it is best to study the how_to_ac3airborne, which is a description of most of the data sets and a collection of examples and tools.

installation

The package can be installed by:

pip install git+https://github.com/igmk/ac3airborne.git

We are continously working on ac3airborne. If you want to install an updated version, just reinstall the package by the command above.

usage

The package provides a few functions to obtain data from the campaigns and can be used in the following way.

In [1]: import ac3airborne

obtaining informations about flights and segments

In [2]: flightinfo = ac3airborne.get_flight_segments()

In [3]: flightinfo['ACLOUD']['P5']['ACLOUD_P5_RF14']['takeoff']
Out[3]: datetime.datetime(2017, 6, 8, 7, 36, 50)

getting the intake catalogues

In [4]: cat = ac3airborne.get_intake_catalog()
In [5]: list(cat['ACLOUD']['P5']['MiRAC-A'])                                                                                                                                                                                      
Out[5]: 
['ACLOUD_P5_RF04',
 'ACLOUD_P5_RF05',
 ...
 'ACLOUD_P5_RF25']