# DualPol

**Repository Path**: alment/DualPol

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: DualPol
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Not specified
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2023-11-06
- **Last Updated**: 2023-11-25

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## README

DualPol README
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This is an object-oriented Python module that facilitates precipitation retrievals (e.g., hydrometeor type, precipitation rate, precipitation mass, particle size distribution information) from polarimetric radar data. It leverages existing open source radar software packages to perform all-in-one QC and retrievals that are then easily visualized or saved using existing software.

DualPol Installation
--------------------
DualPol works under Python 2.7  and 3.4-3.6 on most Mac/Linux setups. Windows installation and other Python versions are currently untested.

In the main source directory:  
`python setup.py install`

The following dependencies need to be installed first:

- A robust version of Python 2.7  or 3.4-3.6 w/ most standard scientific packages (e.g., `numpy`, `matplotlib`, `pandas`, etc.) - Get one for free [here.](https://store.continuum.io/cshop/anaconda/)
- [The Python Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Radar Toolkit (Py-ART)](https://github.com/ARM-DOE/pyart)
- [CSU_RadarTools](https://github.com/CSU-Radarmet/CSU_RadarTools)
- [SkewT](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/SkewT) - a Python 3 version can be found [here.](https://github.com/tjlang/SkewT)

Specific import calls in the DualPol source code:

```
from __future__ import print_function
import numpy as np
import warnings
import time
import pyart
import matplotlib.colors as colors
from pyart.io.common import radar_coords_to_cart
from skewt import SkewT
from csu_radartools import (csu_fhc, csu_liquid_ice_mass, csu_blended_rain,
                            csu_dsd, csu_kdp)
```

Using DualPol
-------------
To access everything:
```
import dualpol
```
A demonstration notebook is in the notebooks directory.

Release info:
[![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.2585820.svg)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2585820)