=========================================== PyTRMM - Python tools for reading TRMM data

PyTRMM is a BSD licensed Python library containing tools for reading the data files produced by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM - http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/). At this stage the package has tools to read the TRMM 3B4XRT data files, but the code should be useful for reading other data provided by TRMM.

Download

Source code can be obtained at http://github.com/sahg/pytrmm and PyPI http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytrmm/

Install

The PyTRMM package currently consists of pure Python code and does not require any extension modules to be built. However the package depends on NumPy (http://www.numpy.org).

Once Numpy has been been successfully installed, PyTRMM can be installed at the command line for any operating system:

$ python setup.py install

Usage Example

>>> from pytrmm import TRMM3B42RTFile
>>> trmm_file = TRMM3B42RTFile(file_name)
>>> print(trmm_file.header())
>>> precip = trmm_file.precip()
>>> print('Array dimensions:', precip.shape)
>>> print('Data max:', precip.max())
>>> print('Data min:', precip.min())
>>> print('Data mean:', precip.mean())
>>> print('Data std-dev:', precip.std())

Contributions and bug reports

If you have improvements to make to PyTRMM, or find a bug, we'd love to hear about it. Please create an issue at https://github.com/sahg/pytrmm/issues (currently requires a free Github account). Alternatively make use of the PyTOPKAPI mailing list (see http://sahg.github.com/PyTOPKAPI/contact.html).