Digital Meridian Spectrometer

For Geophysical Institute's Poker Flat Digital Meridian Spectrometer, which uses NetCDF

This library is also usable from Matlab, as seen in dmsp.m.

Data sources

• 2011-present: ftp://optics.gi.alaska.edu/PKR/DMSP/NCDF/
• 1983-2010 (NetCDF 3 .PF files): http://optics.gi.alaska.edu/realtime/data/msp/pkr This link was good for years and we used this data, but in late 2018 it stopped working.
• other dates
• FTP: ftp://optics.gi.alaska.edu/PKR/DMSP

Install:

python -m pip install -e .

LoadMSPdata.py creates many plots.

Use as a Python module:

import dmsp

dat = dmsp.load('~/data/myfile.PF')

which returns xarray.Dataset