TAPPY is a tidal analysis package. TAPPy breaks down a record of water levels into the component sine waves. It is written in Python and uses the least squares optimization and other functions in SciPy. The focus is to make the most accurate analysis possible. TAPPY only determines the constituents that are calculatable according to the length of the time series. Installation: This is a standard Python distutils install: cp tappy-0.5.0.tar.gz myworkdir cd myworkdir gzip -cd tappy-0.5.0.tar.gz | tar xvf - cd tappy-0.5.0 # At this point you can try TAPPY out without installing. cd example ../tappy.py mayport_florida_8720220_data.txt # OR on Unix/Linux ./example.sh cd .. # If you want to install... python setup.py build python setup.py install #possibly as root Here are some key features of "TAPPy":