Citation Information

References

This work was initially supported by an appointment to the NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), administered by Universities Space Research Association (USRA) under contract with NASA. It is currently supported under the NASA Cryospheric Sciences Program (Grant Number 80NSSC22K0379).

Please consider citing our library

T. C. Sutterley, K. Alley, K. Brunt, S. Howard, L. Padman, and M. Siegfried, “timescale: Python tools for time and astronomical calculations”, (2023). doi: 10.5281/zenodo.8284224

Dependencies

This software is also dependent on other commonly used Python packages:

• dateutil: powerful extensions to datetime

• lxml: processing XML and HTML in Python

• numpy: Scientific Computing Tools For Python

• scipy: Scientific Tools for Python

Data Citations

Internally, timescale includes datasets from the following:

IERS Conventions (2010), G. Petit and B. Luzum (eds.), (IERS Technical Note; 36), Frankfurt am Main: Verlag des Bundesamts für Kartographie und Geodäsie, 179 pp. (2010). ISBN 3-89888-989-6

Disclaimer

This package includes software developed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and the University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory (UW-APL). It is not sponsored or maintained by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), AVISO or NASA.

Warning

Outputs from this software should be used for scientific or technical purposes only. This software should not be used for coastal navigation or any application that may risk life or property.