/bezpy

magnetic field (B), electric field (E), impedance (Z) python routines for dealing with geophysical data

Primary LanguageJupyter NotebookMIT LicenseMIT

Bezpy

DOI

Bezpy is an open source library for analysis of magnetic (B), electric (E), and impedance (Z) data within a geophysical framework. This library contains routines for calculating the geoelectric field from the geomagnetic field in multiple different ways.

Features

  • Geomagnetic to geoelectric field calculations
  • Integration of the geoelectric field along transmission lines
  • Built using established, fast, open source python libraries Pandas, NumPy, SciPy

Examples

Example notebooks can be found in notebooks/

Example scripts for command line use can be found in scripts/

Install

  1. clone the git repository

    git clone https://github.com/greglucas/bezpy
  2. Build and install the package

    python setup.py build
    python setup.py install

License

The code is released under a BSD-3 license License described in LICENSE.md

References

This package has been developed from different publications. Please consider citing the papers that are relevant to the work you are doing if you are utilizing this code.

Geoelectric field calculations

doi:10.1002/2017GL076042

Love, J. J., Lucas, G. M., Kelbert, A., & Bedrosian, P. A. (2018).
Geoelectric hazard maps for the Mid‐Atlantic United States:
100 year extreme values and the 1989 magnetic storm.
Geophysical Research Letters, 44, doi:10.1002/2017GL076042.

Transmission line integrations

doi:10.1002/2017SW001779

Lucas, G. M., Love, J. J., & Kelbert, A. (2018). Calculation of voltages
in electric power transmission lines during historic geomagnetic storms:
An investigation using realistic earth impedances. Space Weather, 16,
181–195, doi:10.1002/2017SW001779.

Time domain (DTIR)

doi:10.1002/2017SW001594

Kelbert, A., C. C. Balch, A. Pulkkinen, G. D. Egbert,
J. J. Love, E. J. Rigler, and I. Fujii (2017),
Methodology for time-domain estimation of storm time geoelectric fields
using the 3-D magnetotelluric response tensors,
Space Weather, 15, 874–894, doi:10.1002/2017SW001594.

Earthscope impedance database

doi:10.17611/DP/EMTF.1

Kelbert, A., G.D. Egbert and A. Schultz (2011),
IRIS DMC Data Services Products: EMTF, The Magnetotelluric Transfer Functions,
doi:10.17611/DP/EMTF.1.

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