# ANN: Geophysics.jl

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-geophysics-jl/49097>\
**Category:** Package Announcements\
**Tags:** geophysics\
**Created:** [October 27, 2020, 6:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-geophysics-jl/49097 "2020-10-27T06:38:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![tk3369](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tk3369/32/2824_2.png) [@tk3369](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tk3369)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 6:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-geophysics-jl/49097/1 "2020-10-27T06:38:51Z")

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Hi!

New package: [Geophysics.jl](https://github.com/chakravala/Geophysics.jl)

I’m posting this announcement on behalf of the author, who told me that he’s looking for open source contribution. The author is not here but active on Reddit. If you are interested in this domain, please take a look at his repo and communicate with him via Reddit or GitHub. You can find his announcement on Reddit [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Julia/comments/jiduvh/geophysicsjl_planetary_altitude_weather_data/).

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**Author:** ![Raf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/raf/32/3383_2.png) [@Raf](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Raf)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 8:05am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-geophysics-jl/49097/2 "2020-10-27T08:05:45Z")

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Looks nice. But so much `@pure`, how do you extend that.

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**Author:** ![Datseris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/datseris/32/13406_2.png) [@Datseris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Datseris)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 8:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-geophysics-jl/49097/3 "2020-10-27T08:48:52Z")

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I have a comment that I will also open on github as well, but first I’ll post it here to see what the rest of the community thinks. After all I might just be thinking about it wrong.

Isn’t the name of this package overly general and could even miss-lead a newcomer? I’d say Geophysics is a _really_ large branch of the geosciences, but this package seems to focus specifically on providing values of pressure, temperature and other variables of the atmosphere at a given height. Wouldn’t a more fitting name be something like Atmospheres.jl?

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**Author:** ![fgerick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fgerick/32/13228_2.png) [@fgerick](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fgerick)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 8:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-geophysics-jl/49097/4 "2020-10-27T08:51:06Z")

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Working in geophysics, I can only underline this!

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**Author:** ![rafael.guerra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rafael.guerra/32/216610_2.png) [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 12:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-geophysics-jl/49097/5 "2020-10-27T12:48:15Z")

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The package warns that its scope “is not limited to atmospheric data: other geophysical data features can be added for oceans, temperature and pressure inside the planets, as well as electrical and magnetic properties of planets.”. Maybe it could be called “PlanetExteriorGeophysics.jl”, or something like that.

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**Author:** ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 1:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-geophysics-jl/49097/6 "2020-10-27T13:42:37Z")

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Agree completely. Besides, although Atmospheric and Physical Oceanography are sub-domains of Geophysics when one refer simply to _Geophysics_ that is typical understood as Solid Earth Geophysics.

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**Author:** ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-geophysics-jl/49097/7 "2020-10-27T14:06:49Z")

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> [@rafael.guerra](#):
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> … temperature and pressure inside the planets, …

There is already also [SeisModels.jl](https://github.com/anowacki/SeisModels.jl)

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**Author:** ![rafael.guerra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rafael.guerra/32/216610_2.png) [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2020, 6:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-geophysics-jl/49097/8 "2020-11-04T18:42:05Z")

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Another suggestion could be: `GeospherePhysics` , following the reference [Williams, R. [2012] The Earth System, USGS](https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/p1386a/pdf/notes/1-8hydrocycle_508.pdf)