Welcome to molecularprofiles’ documentation!

This is molecularprofiles, a Python package that will help in the analysis of molecular profile data obtained from global data assimilation systems, like GFS, GDAS, ECMWF or more processed data from WRF.

This library works only with grib file format or txt table format and is specifically designed for the analysis of molecular content above the CTA sites, at El Roque de los Muchachos in the island of La Palma, and at Paranal in Chile. Other locations can be used as well, but some functions may not work as intended.

The library helps the user to perform several tasks:

• Download the global data assimilation system data
• Extract these data and transform it from grib to text format
• Analyze these data and make plots in order to visualize the content
• Generate input cards for the CORSIKA software for simulation of air showers
• It also has some utilities to compute times and dates (by using third party libraries, such as astropy)

• Code: https://github.com/pmunar/molecularprofiles
• Issues: https://github.com/pmunar/molecularprofiles/issues
• Documentation: http://molecularprofiles.readthedocs.org/
• Contact: pere.munar@uab.cat

Contents:

• Setup
  • Install or check for a Python installation in your system
  • Install or check for installation of needed Python libraries
  • Install molecularprofiles
• download GDAS
• download ECMWF
• Extract grib file information
  • grib_utils.py
• the MolecularProfile class
• Other functionalities of the package
• Tutorial
  • Download the data:

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page