Release of pyDARN Version 2.1 announced

By: miker on: Mon., June 21, 2021 03:38 PM EDT (4115 Reads)

Marina Schmidt of the University of Saskatchewan SuperDARN group has announced the release of version 2.1 of pyDARN, a python library used for data visualization of SuperDARN data. It can be downloaded from Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/record/4958007

Via pip: pip3 install pydarn
Or upgrade: pip3 install --upgrade pydarn

The documentation for pyDARN has also been updated including tutorials for the new features: https://pydarn.readthedocs.io/en/main/index.html

For a description of the new features and additional information, click 'Read More'

pyDARN release v2.1 includes the following features:
Updates to Fan plots
Updates to FOV plots
NEW Grid Plot
NEW Ground-Scatter Mapped Range option for Range-Time plots
NEW Coords enumerator for selecting a coordinate system
updated documentation

To install and use, see anyone of these links for more information

GitHub: https://github.com/SuperDARN/pydarn

Readthedocs: https://pydarn.readthedocs.io/en/master/

PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/pydarn/

From Marina's original announcement of the relese of pydarn 1.0 on March 27. 2020

'pyDARN is a python library used for data visualization of SuperDARN data.
Currently, it can:
- read and write SuperDARN DMap files
- read, write and convert Borealis hdf5 files
- range-time parameter plots
- summary plots
Thank you for all the support and help from the community.'