Lowell Tilt Current Meter (TCM)

Data will generally be processed using a series of run scripts. The first script for each instrument type depends on two configuration files.

Instrument data to raw .cdf

Convert from exported CSV file to a raw netCDF file with .cdf extension using runtcmcsv2cdf.py.

runtcmcsv2cdf.py

Convert Lowell Tilt Current Meter .txt file to raw .cdf format. Run this script from the directory containing TCM file.

usage: runtcmcsv2cdf.py [-h] gatts config

Positional Arguments

gatts

path to global attributes file (gatts formatted)

config

path to instrument configuration file (YAML formatted)

Raw .cdf to CF-compliant .nc

Convert the raw .cdf data into CF-compliant netCDF file with .nc extension using runtcmcdf2nc.py.

runtcmcdf2nc.py

Convert raw TCM .cdf format to processed .nc files

usage: runtcmcdf2nc.py [-h] cdfname

Positional Arguments

cdfname

raw .cdf filename