madCalculator.py is a script run to return a text output of derived Madrigal parameters for a time and a range of gdlat, glon, and gdalt.

It is presently used by the madmatlab methods madCalculator, and via the cgi script madCalculatorService.py the madmatlab method madCalculatorWeb.

It has the following input arguments:

--date=<MM/DD/YYYY> (required)

--time=<HH:MM:SS> (optional - if no HH:MM:SS given, 00:00:00 assumed)

--startLat=<latitude> Starting geodetic latitude, -90 to 90 (required)

--endLat=<latitude> Ending geodetic latitude, -90 to 90 (required)

--stepLat=<latitude step> Latitude step (0.1 to 90) (required)

--startLong=<longitude> Starting geodetic longitude, -180 to 180 (required)

--endLong=<longitude> Ending geodetic longitude, -180 to 180 (required)

--stepLong=<longitude step> Longitude step (0.1 to 180) (required)

--startAlt=<altitude> Starting geodetic altitude, >= 0 (required)

--endAlt=<altitude> Ending geodetic altitude, > 0 (required)

--stepAlt=<altitude step> Altitude step (>= 0.1) (required)

--parms=<comma delimited string of Madrigal parameters desired> (required)

--showHeader (optional) Prints header line before data

--oneD=<parm>,<value> (optional - 0 or more allowed) This argument allows the user to set any number of one-D parameters to be used in the calculation. Value must be parameter name, comma, value as double. Example: --oneD=kinst,31.0 --oneD=elm=45.0

Returns comma-delimited data, one line for each combination of lat, long, and alt, with the following fields:

1. latitude 2. longitude 3. altitude 4. Values for each Madrigal parameter listed in argument parms, separated by whitespace

If --showHeader given, also prints header line before data

This script, and the corresponding cgi script madCalculatorService.py are available to any scripting language that wants to access Madrigal derived parameters.

$Id: madCalculator.py.html 3304 2011-01-17 15:25:59Z brideout $

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