Release of pyDARN Version 2.2 announced

By: miker on: Thu., Oct. 28, 2021 04:23 PM EDT (2442 Reads)

On behalf of the SuperDARN Data Visualization Working Group, Marina Schmidt of the University of Saskatchewan has announced the release of version 2.2 of pyDARN, a python library used for data visualization of SuperDARN data. It can be downloaded from pip via:

pip install pydarn
or upgrade if you already have it
pip install --upgrade pydarn
or Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/record/5605069

Please cite in any publications when using pyDARN.
The documentation for pyDARN includes 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'

The new release includes the following:

New Requirement: pyDARN 2.2 requires a minimum matplotlib version of 3.3.4

New Radar geographical Field-of-View (FOV) calculations functionality
New Modularity for virtual height models
Deprecation Removed FOV files for radars geographic beam location
New pytesting environment for testing pydarn for development
New FOV grid lines to show range gates
New channel option in Fan plots
Bugfix in Range-time plots with groundscatter
Bugfix in Range-time plots with time-shifting
Deprecation of slant option in plot_range-time and plot_summary is deprecated now uses Coords

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.