ac3airborne: AC3 airborne python tools

This 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 and a collection of examples and tools.

installation

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

If you want to get an update, just reinstall the package.

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']