A Python package to quickly fetch carbon reservoir records at the Marine Reservoir Correction database (http://calib.org/marine/).
The carbonferret package is simple, but powerful. For instance, let's say we want to find two sediment records nearest 0° latitude, 0° longitude. We can open a python session and run:
import carbonferret as cf
results = cf.find_near(lat=0, lon=0, n=2)
The variable results is a pandas DataFrame with information on sample location and
reservoir values, among other variables provided by the Marine Reservoir Correction database.
We can take advantage of this. For example, we could find the average ΔR of these sites.
results['DeltaR'].mean()
Of course there are several other variables that we can look at, such as site references or site location.
This can be useful if you want to look up a few quick numbers in the lab, or if you're writing a script to analyze hundreds of marine sediment cores.
You can install the package from PyPI with
pip install carbonferret
Source code is hosted online under an Open Source license. Please feel free to file any bugs and issues you find.