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Explore adding pyspedas interface to spacepy IRBEM implementation.

Open jameswilburlewis opened this issue 5 months ago • 0 comments

spacepy apparently includes support for several field models, including some of the Tsyganenko models, under its IRBEMPY module:

https://spacepy.github.io/autosummary/spacepy.irbempy.get_Bfield.html#spacepy.irbempy.get_Bfield

It sounds like these are compiled Fortran libraries, so they might be a lot more efficient than geopack, at least for the models supported by IRBEM. We would need to vet them against the IDL geopack results, of course...

jameswilburlewis avatar Sep 19 '24 20:09 jameswilburlewis