👋 Welcome#
Hello! Welcome to Swarm Notebooks - a community resource to help people make use of the product portfolio from ESA’s Swarm mission using the Python ecosystem. Here you will find recipes and guidance in using data from Swarm (and beyond) in conjunction with the VirES data retrieval system and the Virtual Research Environment (VRE), a cloud-based JupyterHub.
These pages act as an extended documentation on usage of the viresclient Python package and how to use it together with other packages. All the recipes on these pages are tested to work on the latest version of the VRE, but they are also all portable so that they will work on other systems if you have the right packages installed.
Looking for more resources?
Read more about the Swarm data products
Check the list of other tools and services at Magnetic Earth, and the Python in Heliophysics Community
Did you know?
VirES provides access to more than just Swarm data:
How to use this resource#
Some of these pages are generated from Jupyter notebooks which can be interacted with on the VRE - on those pages you will see a 🚀 rocket button at the top. Hover over that button and select JupyterHub to launch the notebook interactively (after first creating a free account). The notebooks are also available within the VRE already, baked into the notebook launcher.
To give feedback (questions, suggestions, anything!) to help us improve:
Using Hypothesis: select text anywhere on these pages to annotate them publically
(you need to create an account with Hypothesis to do this)Using GitHub:
Open an Issue if you find an error or you have a specific suggestion
Post on the Discussion page with something more open-ended
By email: ashley.smith@ed.ac.uk or check other ways to contact me
(Get in touch if you want some hands-on help!)If you have problems with your VirES account or for other enquiries, please email info@vires.services