Projects
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Core packages
These packages each offer a wide range of functionality in their area, and conform to the HeliophysicsPy community standards.
HelioPy
A python library for heliospheric physics.
David Stansby
PlasmaPy
A Python package for plasma physics
Nick Murphy
pysat
Management and analysis tool for satellite and radar data.
Russell Stoneback
SpacePy
Space science library for Python. Includes file I/O, time and coordinate conversions, common analysis techniques.
Steve Morley
SunPy
Python for Solar Physics
Stuart Mumford
Other packages
AACGMV2
A Python wrapper for the AACGM-v2 C library
Angeline G. Burrell
ACEmag
Load and Plot ACE satelite magnetometer data
Michael Hirsch
AFINO
A tool for finding oscillations in time series data
Andrew Inglis
aiapy
A Python package for analyzing data from SDO/AIA
Will Barnes, Mark Cheung
aidapy
A Python package to provide machine learning and statistical methods to heliophysics data
Romain Dupuis, Jorge Amaya, Giovanni Lapenta
apexpy
A Python wrapper for the Apex fortran library
Angeline G. Burrell
AstrometryAzEl
plate scale / calibrate star imagery to use multiple auroral/airglow cameras together
Michael Hirsch
Auroral Electrojet
Auroral Electrojet AE-index read and plot.
Michael Hirsch
CDFlib
Read / Write NASA CDF with pure Python + Numpy, no compiling
Bryan Harter, Michael Liu, David Stansby, Michael Hirsch
DASCutils
Digital All Sky Camera utilities, for camera at Poker Flat Research Range and elsewhere
Michael Hirsch
Digital Meridian Spectrometer
UAF Digital Meridian Spectrometer-- load and plot
Michael Hirsch
enlilviz
A Python toolkit for Enlil solar wind visualizations.
Greg Lucas
fiasco
A Python interface to the CHIANTI atomic database.
Will Barnes
fisspy
Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph (FISS) on the New Solar Telescope.
Juhyeong Kang
geodata
Geophysics analysis of radar and optical systems.
John Swoboda
GEOrinex
Python RINEX 2/3 NAV/OBS reader with speed and simplicity, handling most RINEX formats.
Michael Hirsch
GIMAmag
UAF Geophysical Institute magnetometer network data read and plot
Michael Hirsch
GLOW
NCAR GLOW 0.981 aurora/airglow model IR-VIS-UV from Python
Michael Hirsch
GLOWlegacy
NCAR GLOW 0.973 legacy aurora/airglow model IR-VIS-UV from Python and Matlab
Michael Hirsch
GOESutils
Download and plot GOES satellite PNGs and high-resolution NetCDF4 by date/time
Michael Hirsch
HAPI Client
Access time series data access from many sources
Bob Weigel
HWM-93
NASA Horizontal Wind Model HWM93 in Python and Matlab
Michael Hirsch
IGRF-12
International Geomagnetic Reference Field IGRF12 and IGRF11 -- in Python and Matlab
Michael Hirsch
IRI-2016
International Reference Ionosphere 2016 from Python and Matlab
Michael Hirsch
IRI-90
IRI90-international reference ionosphere in Python
Michael Hirsch
Kamodo
CCMC tool for access, interpolation, and visualization of space weather models and data
Asher Pembroke
LOWTRAN
LOWTRAN atmospheric absorption extinction, scatter and irradiance model--in Python and Matlab
Michael Hirsch
MadrigalWeb
Access data from any Madrigal database.
Bill Rideout
Maidenhead
Python or Julia Maidenhead <--> WGS84 coordinate conversions, useful for crowdsourced observations
Michael Hirsch
MGSutils
Mars Global Surveyor utilities (for radio occultation)
Michael Hirsch
MSISE-00
NRL MSISE-00 atmospheric model-- in Python and Matlab
Michael Hirsch
NDCube
A Python package for manipulating, inspecting and visualizing multi-dimensional contiguous and non-contiguous coordinate-aware data arrays
Dan Ryan
NEXRADutils
Download/Plot NEXRAD compositive reflectivity by date/time, for ionospheric perturbations
Michael Hirsch
OCBpy
A Python module that converts between AACGM coordinates and an adjustable magnetic coordinate system based on the location of the polar cap
Angeline G. Burrell
OMMBV
Othogonal Multipole Magnetic Basis Vectors - Express vectors relative to a multipole magnetic field using an orthogonal curvi-linear basis.
Russell Stoneback
POLAN
estimate true ionosphere height from ionosonde
Michael Hirsch
PyDARN
A package for analyzing data from SuperDARN.
Marina Schmidt
pyglow
Upper atmosphere models and geophysical indices.
Timothy Duly
PyMap3D
Python 3D coordinate conversions for geospace ecef enu eci and more
Michael Hirsch
pysatCDF
Python reader for NASA CDF, includes CDF libraries.
Russell Stoneback
pysatMagVect
Geomagnetic field line tracing, unit vectors, ion drift mapping, vector and coordinate transformations.
Russell Stoneback
pySPEDAS
Tools for loading, analysis and plotting of data from various heliophysics missions and ground magnetometers
Nick Hatzigeorgiu, Eric Grimes
python-magnetosphere
Python wrapper for cxform, coordinate transformation package
David Parunakian
PyTplot
Based on IDL tplot, plots and manipulates time series data
Bryan Harter
PyZenodo
Simple, clean pure Python 3 Zenodo API (upload, download data).
Michael Hirsch
ReesAurora
Rees/Sergienko module of excitation rates, relevant to auroral optical emissions
Michael Hirsch
sami2py
Run, read, and plot the SAMI2 ionospheric model.
Jeff Klenzing
Scanning Doppler Interferometer
Dowload & plot Scanning Doppler Interferometer data from PI Mark Conde's instruments.
Michael Hirsch
ScienceDates
Date / time conversions used in the sciences.
Michael Hirsch
SpiceyPy
Pythonic wrapper for Spice.
Andrew M. Annex
THEMISasi
Read & Plot THEMIS ASI 256x256 "high resolution" GBO ground-based imager data
Michael Hirsch
TomograPy
Coronal tomographic reconstructions.
Nicolas Barbey
viresclient
Access to ESA Swarm mission products
EOX IT Services / Ashley Smith
WMM2015
World Magnetic Model 2015 from Python
Michael Hirsch