brews/carbonferret

A Python package to quickly fetch carbon reservoir records at the Marine Reservoir Correction database (http://calib.org/marine/).

carbonferret

A Python package to quickly fetch carbon reservoir records at the Marine Reservoir Correction database (http://calib.org/marine/).

Example

The carbonferret package is simple, but powerful. For instance, let's say we want to find two sediment records nearest 0° latitude, 0° longitude. We can open a python session and run:

import carbonferret as cf

results = cf.find_near(lat=0, lon=0, n=2)

The variable results is a pandas DataFrame with information on sample location and reservoir values, among other variables provided by the Marine Reservoir Correction database.

We can take advantage of this. For example, we could find the average ΔR of these sites.

results['DeltaR'].mean()

Of course there are several other variables that we can look at, such as site references or site location.

This can be useful if you want to look up a few quick numbers in the lab, or if you're writing a script to analyze hundreds of marine sediment cores.

Installation

You can install the package from PyPI with

pip install carbonferret

Development and Support

Source code is hosted online under an Open Source license. Please feel free to file any bugs and issues you find.

carbonferret's Issues

Need to update travis-ci script

Travis-ci is failing on the tests using python nightly builds. I think we can just remove those test cases. They're not really needed.

README needs to be put as `long_description` in setup.py

README needs to be put as long_description in setup.py.