SuperDARN Radar Software Toolkit (RST) 5.1

Key updates in version 5.1 of the Radar Software Toolkit (RST) include:

• New additions
  • Addition of AACGM_v2 and IGRF coefficients to support mapping until the beginning of 2030
  • New tool (find_elvstat) for info on realistic number of elevation angle measurements in a fit-level file
  • New conversion tool (oldsndtosnd) to convert old sounding data (snd) written in binary format to the more modern dmap format
  • New derivation of eccentric dipole coordinates for the TS18 and TS18-Kp convection models
  • Addition of slant range parameter (srng) to grid and map files
• New/Updated Radar Information
  • Addition of Iceland East (ice), West (icw); Longjing East (lje), West (ljw); Siziwanqi East (sze), West (szw); Hejing East (hje), West (hjw) radar information
  • Updated hdw.dat files for Blackstone (bks), Kodiak (kod)
  • Updated radar location information based on satellite imagery
  • Addition of tdiff.dat files for several radars
• Updates to Current Binaries and Libraries
  • Modification to grid_filter binary to allow filtering data based on range as well as control program ID.
  • Updates to fitacfclientgui to allow viewing range gate or slant range, on-screen key menu, selection of groundscatter flag, and color scale control
  • Addition of -xshift and -yshift options to field_plot binary to allow shifts to plotting area; also addition of -databeam option to plot field-of-view edges
  • Addition of -dot option in field_plot to mark radar location
  • Improvements for plotting snd data with time_plot
  • Updates to fit library to check for valid elevation angle information and use the sky noise from fitted data to populate the noise fields in grid and map files
  • Support for beam offset parameter included in rtsnd binary
• Documentation, Bug fixes and Miscellaneous
  • Improvements to xmldoc and scdoc binaries used for documentation creation
  • Updating version of mpfit from 1.4 to 1.5
  • Various documentation improvements (e.g. updated installation instructions for Mac OS)
  • Various typo errors, bug fixes, and memory leak fixes
  • Updates to compilation checks in github development environment
  • Support for .tcsh profiles has been removed