Software to attempt to remove the effects of cloud coverage from albedo maps of Earth using Markov chain Monte-Carlo methods. Developed under the supervision of Professor N. Cowan at McGill University from Jan-April 2019. Credit also goes to McGill students Elisa Jacquet and Juliette Geoffrion for their work on previous versions of this project.
This software makes use of certain modules you may not already have. These include:
netCDF4.Dataset -- For loading in the EPIC data.
emcee -- "The MCMC Hammer." Developed by D. Foreman-Mackey et al. Used for all of the Markov chain Monte-Carlo in these scripts.
corner -- Software used to produce the corner plots needed to understand MCMC results. Also developed by D. Foreman-Mackey.
cartopy -- Software for preparing all sorts of maps. Used here to plot albedo maps over an actual map of Earth.
astropy (specifically, astropy.time.Time) -- Widely-used software for astrophysics-related programming. Just download the whole thing.
netCDF4: http://unidata.github.io/netcdf4-python/netCDF4/index.html
emcee: http://dfm.io/emcee/current/#user-guide
corner: https://corner.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html
cartopy: https://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/latest/installing.html#installing
astropy: http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/install.html
Documentation and a step-by-step guide on the use of this software can be seen here: https://github.com/nvieira-mcgill/cloud_killer/wiki