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Welcome to the saildrone_mission_tools wiki!

Here I've collected some tools that can be useful in real-time for mission management, and for quick data analysis.

Some of the things included in this repository:

• retrieving latest position of gliders Franklin and 1091. Link
• downloading the latest (generic) saildrone data. Link
• predicting JASON-3 satellite overpass times at a location. Link
• comparing saildrone and buoy observations. Link
• plotting real-time aircraft reconnaissance track with dropsondes and saildrone positions. Link
• creating a list of dropsondes dropped by aircraft recon in the vicinity of saildrones. Link
• creating PDFs with NHC 7-day outlooks, forecasted tracks, and historical TS-wind radii. Link

The data folders are laid out as follows:

• bash contains some .sh scripts that automate these workflows (should work in bash)
• configs contains the python environment that can support the scripts and the overall configuration file
• scripts contains the individual python scripts
• util contains custom functions

To get everything working for the first time:

• create the python environment (this uses conda)

conda update --all
conda env create -f configs/environment.yml
conda activate sd_mission_tools

cd util
pwd (to return the path to the directory, e.g., /Users/..../util)
conda develop /Users/..../util (insert path from previous line)

This should set everything up for the python environment.

After this setup step, you just need to activate the created environment before using any of the scripts:

conda activate sd_mission_tools

Individual functionality is described in more detail on separate wiki pages.