Utah Atmospheric Trace-gas and Air Quality (UATAQ)

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• General Functions
• Laboratory
• File System
• Sites
• Instruments

Naming Convention

I chose UATAQ as the name for the package because it is the most encompassing name for the groups currently involved in the project.

Designing a user-friendly package is a challenge because the data is collected by multiple research groups, each with their own naming conventions and data formats. The package must be able to handle all of these different formats and provide a onsistent interface for the user.

I have defined a set of [standardized column names](/lair/uataq/columns.md) that each groupspace module must define a column_mapping dictionary that maps the group’s column names to the standardized names when using the GroupSpace.standardize_data method.

Contents

laboratory	UATAQ Laboratory object.
get_site(SID)	Return site object from config file
read_data(SID[, instruments, group, lvl, ...])	Read data from an instrument at a site.
get_obs(SID[, pollutants, format, group, ...])	Get observations from a site.