The Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS)¶
The Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) is a NASA Earth Venture Suborbital-3 (EVS-3) aircraft-based field campaign to study precipitation banding in severe winter cyclones in the Northeast United States.
What is IMPACTS-TOOLS?¶
This package provides an object-oriented data model for observations collected during the Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) Field Campaign. By wrapping the datasets from the various instruments, exposing their fields through a common interface, and including some light processing functions, the impacts-tools package makes it faster and easier to understand and analyze data collected during IMPACTS.
IMPACTS data consists of various radars, microphysics probes, and other instruments flown on two aircraft during snowstorms in winter 2020, 2022, and 2023. IMPACTS_TOOLS may eventually contain more specialized functions for advanced analysis as papers are published by the IMPACTS Science Team, but the initial goals are to make things that should be easy - reading the data files, filtering by time and flight leg, plotting data from multiple instruments on the same figures - easier for a non-expert to get started with.