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| string | _sanitizeString '[\'";]' |
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| tuple | SRS int(4326) |
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| string | DB_NAME 'GHCND.spatialite' |
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| string | URL 'http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/ghcnd-stations.txt' |
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| tuple | parser argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Build database of GHCN station metadata') |
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| string | help 'Directory to which database named "GHCND.sqlite" should be placed' |
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| tuple | args parser.parse_args() |
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| tuple | ghcnDB os.path.join(args.outputDir, DB_NAME) |
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| | url URL |
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| tuple | conn spatialite.connect(ghcnDB) |
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| tuple | cursor conn.cursor() |
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| tuple | hasSpatial cursor.fetchone() |
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| tuple | f urllib.urlopen(url) |
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| tuple | line f.readline() |
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| tuple | id unicode(line[:11].strip(), errors='replace') |
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| tuple | lat float(line[12:19].strip()) |
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| tuple | lon float(line[21:29].strip()) |
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| tuple | elev float(line[31:36].strip()) |
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| tuple | name unicode(line[41:70].strip(), errors='replace') |
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| string | sql u"INSERT INTO ghcn_station (id,name,elevation_m,coord) VALUES ('%s','%s',%f,GeomFromText('POINT(%f %f)', %d) )" |
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Builds SQLite3/Spatialite database needed for querying NCDC Global Historical Climatology Network station metadata downloaded from http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/ghcnd-stations.txt.
This database is indexed to allow fast spatial queries of station information.
- Note
- Requires pyspatialite 3.0.1.
This software is provided free of charge under the New BSD License. Please see the following license information:
Copyright (c) 2013, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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- Neither the name of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
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- Author
- Brian Miles brian.nosp@m._mil.nosp@m.es@un.nosp@m.c.ed.nosp@m.u
Usage:
1 GHCNDSetup.py -o <output_dir>
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