A colleague of mine asked for a Spacepy/pybats plotting script for looking at results from the Ridley Ionosphere Model, or RIM*. While it’s easy enough to hand someone a quick script to whip up a set of plots, it kind of misses the point of PyBats within Spacepy. Rather than …
Hey! Now you can read *.outs files using Spacepy’s PyBats module! You can load a *.outs file using the same old classes (e.g., Bats2d, MagGridFile, etc.), pick what frame to read, and switch frames on the fly. Further, any self.calc_* functions will update when you switch frames, so you don’t …
At the end of 2020, a paper that I had worked on for far too long was finally accepted. It was a paper that I thought was okay if not interesting. I had one co-author who was insistent that this was a big deal and we should be pushing for …
I’ve been promising this blog since the start of the pandemic, which, if you check your apocalypse calendar, was a very long time ago. When I thought about working on it, I ran into familiar obstacles of any new project. How will I lay it out? What material do I …