2013-04-11 Copyright 2013, S. Brewster Malevich malevich@email.arizona.edu
A painfully simple program that expands monthly time series files.
mustached-robot helps people reformat flat, time-series files of monthly climate data.
This was originally tailored to format input data so that it could be read into Dave Meko's "seascorr" MATLAB script, but I've heard that other people have found uses for this.
This program is happy to run on Linux, Mac, or MS Windows. However, it is not yet tested on all of these platforms.
You need to go install a recent copy of Python version 3.x. Python version or higher. Version 2.x will not work.
Once you have that installed, you can run the program by double clicking on the mr.pyw file. Google or ask around if you're having trouble.
Go take a look in the data folder that came with the program. You'll see a copy of a NCDC .csv file and a PRISM .txt file. Files that are formatted exactly in this way should work fine. You can see what the output of each of these files is
Check out the data folder that came with the program. The .tsv (tab-separated) with "goal" in the name are examples of the reformatted NCDC and PRISM files which are also in the data folder.
If you've found a bug, please go ahead and file a bug report on our bug tracker. Include a detailed description of what you did and what went wrong.
If you have another issue or your uncomfortable with bug reports you can contact one of the developers (me). Depending on my work load, it may be a few days before I get back to you.
This program is open source so feel free to share it, fork it, hack it. The source code is available here. There are a few restrictions and these are outlined in the LICENSE file.