Welcome to a Collection of Tutorials for the Python Package tropy

Intro

This is a set of tutorial notebooks which aim to partially describe the functionality of the python package tropy which I started to develop at TROPOS since 2011. It contains a rather diverse collection of utility functions for which I did not found an appropriate solution in an existing package. The python landscape has considerably changed - hence some of the tools are somehow outdated, some functions are now covered by established package collections.

All tutorials are available as jupyter notebooks.

Tools for IO

Function have been written to ease input of certain obervational or model-simulated fields available at TROPOS. These function included data from

• observations from Meteosat SEVIRI with the ‘MSevi’ class and make RGBs with the ‘MSeviRGB’ class
• observations from the DWD radolan Radar Composite :doc: with the Radolan class TBD

Tools for Plotting

Some helper functions to make typical task in plotting easier.

• plotting shades with a non-linear (discrete) colormap with the ‘shaded’ module
• using some special colormaps with the ‘colormaps’ module
• adding meta data to PNG Files with the ‘meta2png’ module

Tools for Analysis

Some helper functions to make special tasks in data analysis easier.

• rank transformations and histogram matching with the ‘statistics’ module