R Tools for Obspack, Receptors and Footprints (rtorf)

NOAA Obspack is a collection of green house gases observations

rtorf only depends on data.table and ncdf4, which is basically parallel C, so it can be installed in any machine.

Installation

Using git bash/powershell

git clone https://github.com/noaa-gml/rtorf
R CMD INSTALL rtorf

Using remotes R package

remotes::install_github("noaa-gml/rtorf")

library(rtorf)
library(data.table)

ObsPack summary

The first step consists in constructing a summary for the ObsPack. This is required to read the data, but also, identify agl, which is present in some of the file names. This function returns a data.frame. Optionally, the user can indicate a path to store the data.frame. obs_summary also prints a summary of the data. The second argument is the categories, and by default includes the categories shown below, to account for all the files. Then the summary data.frame contains the columns id as the full path to each file, name which is the name or relative path of the file, n just an id, sector such as tower, and the column agl which indicates the agl indicated in the name of the file if available. To read the documentation of this function, the user must run ?obs_summary.

We first define the categories

cate = c("aircraft-pfp",
         "aircraft-insitu",
         "aircraft-flask",
         "surface-insitu",
         "surface-flask", 
         "surface-pfp",   
         "tower-insitu",  
         "aircore",       
         "shipboard-insitu",
         "shipboard-flask") 

obs <- "Z:/torf/obspack_ch4_1_GLOBALVIEWplus_v5.1_2023-03-08/data/nc/"
index <- obs_summary(obs = obs, categories = cate)

## Number of files of index: 0
##           sector     N
##           <char> <int>
## 1: Total sectors     0
## Detected 0 files with agl
## Detected 0 files without agl

For each one of these dataset ids, check the articles in the documentation

https://noaa-gml.github.io/rtorf/

Implementation in python:

I’m currently implementing a version in python:

R	description	Python
fex	File extension
invfile	Methods for objects with class ‘invfile’
obs_addltime	local hour (bsed on longitude and time)
obs_addstime	Add solar time into obspack
obs_addtime	Add times into obspack
obs_agg	Aggregates ObsPack by time
obs_find_receptors	Compares expected receptors
obs_footname	Expected footprint name
obs_format	Formatting data
obs_freq	return numeric vector in intervals
obs_index	Summary of the ObsPack files (.txt)	OK
obs_invfiles	Generate files to perform inverse modeling
obs_list.dt	list.dt
obs_meta	Read obspack metadata
obs_out	outersect
obs_plot	Read obspack metadata
obs_rbind	rbind obspack
obs_read	Read obspack (.txt)
obs_read_csvy	reads CSVY
obs_read_nc	Read obspack (.nc)	OK
obs_roundtime	round seconds from “POSIXct” “POSIXt” classes
obs_summary	Summary of the ObsPack files (.txt)
obs_table	Obspack Table
obs_trunc	Trunc numbers with a desired number of decimals
obs_write_csvy	Generates YAML and write data.frame
plot.invfile	Methods for objects with class ‘invfile’
print.invfile	Methods for objects with class ‘invfile’
sr	Extacts n last characters
summary.invfile	Methods for objects with class ’invfile