pyart

documentation below from - http://arm-doe.github.io/pyart-docs-travis/setting_up_an_environment.html

Acquiring Anaconda

Creating environments using Anaconda is recommended so you can create more than one environment and keep dependencies separated so there's less risk of conflicts.

To download and install Anaconda https://www.anaconda.com/download/ MiniConda is fine too. Make sure you're using Python 3.6+

While Anaconda is downloading, it will ask if you want to set a path to it, or let Anaconda set a default path. After choosing, Anaconda should finish downloading. After it is done, exit the terminal and open a new one to make sure the environment path is set. If conda command is not found, there is help on running conda and fixing the environment path, found here:

• `How to Run Conda https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18675907/how-to-run-conda

Creating an Environment in Anaconda

Next you'll need to create a conda environment for using Py-ART and its associated packages. In my opinion, the easiest way to do this is with an environment file:

• https://github.com/tjturnage/pyart/blob/master/environment.yml

This will additionally install Spyder (my preferred editor), as well as the s3fs package needed to download radar data from Amazon/AWS.

To create the environment, go to the directory containing the file and use the command:

    conda env create -f environment.yml

This will then create an environment called pyart_env that can be activated by:

    source activate pyart

or deactivated after use:

    source deactivate pyart

Define your local configuration settings

Copy configtemplate.py to another file in the same folder and call it configlocal.py

Then change your paths accordingly.