Online user’s guide for the Python Black Carbon Absorption package (pyBCabs)

Documentation is always under development, but mostly complete. A manuscript communicating the development of the morphology retrival was published by Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, and is available here.

NOTE TO USERS: When using pyBCabsorption, pay close attention to the units of the your inputs. Wavelength and particle diameters are always in nanometers, mass absorption cross-sections are in m²/g. If you use other units, your outputs may not make sense.

Install pyBCabs

The current version is 0.0.1. You can install pyBCabs from The Python Package Index (PyPI) with

$ pip install pyBCabs==0.0.1

or from GitHub. Clone the repository and then run

$ python setup.py install

Revision History

• 0.0.1 (30 December, 2022)

  • Initial release.

Author Contact Information

pyBCabs was written by Payton Beeler.

Email: beelerpayton@wustl.edu

Table of Contents

• Documentation Home
  • Install pyBCabs
  • Revision History
  • Author Contact Information
• Functions
  • Theory
  • Inverse function for single particle
  • Forward function for single particle
  • Inverse function for black carbon size distribution
  • Forward function for black carbon size distribution
• Example Scripts
  • Morphology of of a Single Black Carbon Particle
  • Absorption of of a Single Black Carbon Particle
  • Morphology of Black Carbon Size Distribution
  • Absorption of of a Black Carbon Size Distribution