Welcome to PROFFASTpylot’s documentation!¶

Measurements of atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations are important to assess the effect of climate change mitigation policies. Additionally, climate models depend on a precise knowledge of greenhouse gas abundances and emissions. A variety of measurement methods is addressing these needs. The Collaborative Carbon Column Observing Network (COCCON) was established in 2019, as a supporting framework for users of the portable Fourier-Transform spectrometers EM27/SUN, that measures precisely and accurately GHG column abundances from near-infrared solar absorption spectra. To ensure common quality standards across the COCCON, raw EM27/SUN measurements are processed with the PROFFAST Fortran routines. The Python interface PROFFASTpylot significantly reduces the workload during the processing of large sets of observational data and supports a network-wide consistent data processing.

For more information about PROFFAST, see https://www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/3225.php. The PROFFASTpylot source code is available at https://gitlab.eudat.eu/coccon-kit/proffastpylot. If you have any comments or questions, contact us at benedikt.herkommer@kit.edu and lena.feld@kit.edu. You are welcome to contribute.

This documentation and the PROFFASTpylot source code is licensed under GPL-3.0.