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SkyTropD is a community-maintained fork of PyTropD for calculating tropical width metrics. The upstream scientific methods and API are preserved where practical while compatibility fixes and maintenance continue in this fork.

A Python package for tropical width metrics

Import with the SkyTropD package name:

```python
import skytropd as pyt
```

Install from the forked package name:

```bash
pip install skytropd
```

SkyTropD currently supports Python `3.9` through `3.14` and requires `numpy>=1.19` and `scipy>=1.5`.

Origin and licensing:

- Forked from PyTropD, the Python implementation of TropD.
- Original authorship remains credited to Alison Ming, Paul William Staten, and Samuel Smith.
- This repository is distributed under the LGPL-3.0-only license in [LICENSE](LICENSE).

Upstream reference documentation:

- https://skytropd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- PyTropD xarray tutorial: [![Binder](https://mybinder.org/badge_logo.svg)](https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/tropd/pytropd/master?labpath=pytropd%2Fxr_tutorial.ipynb)
