Update on pyDARN: Frontiers Paper published and latest release of pyDARN software

By: miker on: Mon., Dec. 05, 2022 11:41 AM EST (352 Reads)

The open-source library of software for SuperDARN data visualization developed by the SuperDARN community and known as pyDARN has been reviewed in a paper published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Science by Xueling Shi and coauthors from the Data Visualization Working Group (DVWG):

Shi X, Schmidt M, Martin CJ, Billett DD, Bland E, Tholley FH, Frissell NA, Khanal K, Coyle S, Chakraborty S, Detwiller M, Kunduri B and McWilliams K (2022) pyDARN: A Python software for visualizing SuperDARN radar data. Front. Astron. Space Sci. 9:1022690. doi: 10.3389/fspas.2022.1022690

The paper is part of the Research Topic 'Snakes on a Spaceship - An Overview of Python in Space Physics.' It can be accessed at https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2022.1022690/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field=&journalName=Frontiers_in_Astronomy_and_Space_Sciences&id=1022690

The last major release of pyDARN was v3.0 on April 20, 2022 as announced by Carley Martin (University of Saskatchewan) on behalf of the Data Visualization Working Group (DVWG). See 'Read More' for how to install and more information.

The release includes the optional cartopy dependency for underlaid maps and convection maps in magnetic coordinates along with a number of other bug fixes and improvements.

To install:
pip3 install --upgrade pydarn
Or you can download the zip on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/record/6473574

Information on using pyDARN can be found in this documentation: https://pydarn.readthedocs.io/en/main/

Note that if you install previous versions of pyDARN in a fresh environment, the hdw repository branch name on GitHub has now changed from masterto mainand as such the hdw files will not be downloaded with the package. This version of pyDARN has specifically been designed to read the new format of hdw files.

Update on pyDARN: Frontiers Paper published and latest release of pyDARN software

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