Overview¶
This is a Python wrapper for the AACGM-v2 C library, which allows converting between geographic and magnetic coordinates. The currently included version of the C library is 2.6. The wrapper is provided “as is” in the hopes that it will be useful to the space science community, and will not automatically be updated when new versions of the C library is released. MLT calculations are included in the wrapper (not part of the C library, please see the documentation for implementation details). The package is free software (MIT license).
This fork of aacgmv2
(github link)
provides the interface compatible with aacgmv2 < 2.4.
Quick start¶
Install (requires NumPy):
pip install aacgm2
Convert between AACGM and geographic coordinates:
>>> from aacgm2 import convert
>>> from datetime import date
>>> # geo to AACGM, single numbers
>>> mlat, mlon, malt = convert(60, 15, 300, date(2013, 11, 3))
>>> "{0:.8f}".format(float(mlat))
'57.47357891'
>>> "{0:.8f}".format(float(mlon))
'93.61113360'
>>> "{0:.8f}".format(float(malt))
'1.04566346'
>>> # AACGM to geo, mix arrays/numbers
>>> glat, glon, galt = convert([90, -90], 0, 0, date(2013, 11, 3), a2g=True)
>>> ["{0:.8f}".format(float(gl)) for gl in glat]
['82.96859922', '-74.33899667']
>>> ["{0:.8f}".format(float(gl)) for gl in glon]
['-84.65010944', '125.84759847']
>>> ["{0:.8f}".format(float(ga)) for ga in galt]
['14.12457922', '12.87721946']
Convert between AACGM and MLT:
>>> from aacgm2 import convert_mlt
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> mlon = convert_mlt([0, 12], datetime(2013, 11, 3, 18, 0), m2a=True)
>>> ["{0:.8f}".format(float(ml)) for ml in mlon]
['159.08043649', '339.08043649']
If you don’t know or use Python, you can also use the command line. See details in the full documentation.
Documentation¶
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