ecohydroworkflowlib.climatedata.ghcndquery Namespace Reference

Query NCDC Global Historical Climatology Network dataset for daily climate data. More...

Functions
def	findStationsWithinBoundingBox
	Find stations that lie within a bounding box.
def	findStationNearestToCoordinates
	Determine identifier of station nearest to longitude, latitude coordinates.
def	getClimateDataForStation
	Fetch climate timeseries data for a GHCN daily station.

Variables
string	HOST 'www1.ncdc.noaa.gov'
string	URL_PROTO '/pub/data/ghcn/daily/all/{station_id}.dly'
tuple	_SRS int(4326)
int	_BUFF_LEN 4096

Detailed Description

Query NCDC Global Historical Climatology Network dataset for daily climate data.

Note

Requires pyspatialite 3.0.1

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Author

Brian Miles brian.nosp@m._mil.nosp@m.es@un.nosp@m.c.ed.nosp@m.u

Function Documentation

def ecohydroworkflowlib.climatedata.ghcndquery.findStationNearestToCoordinates	(		config,
			longitude,
			latitude
	)

Determine identifier of station nearest to longitude, latitude coordinates.

Parameters

config	ConfigParser containing the section 'GHCND' and option 'PATH_OF_STATION_DB'
longitude	Float representing WGS84 longitude
latitude	Float representing WGS84 latitude

Returns

Tuple of the form (station_id, longitude, latitude, elevation_meters, distance), None if no gage is found.

from ecohydroworkflowlib.climatedata.ghcndquery import findStationNearestToCoordinates
import ConfigParser
config = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser()
config.read('./bin/macosx2.cfg')
lon = -76.7443397486
lat = 39.2955590994
nearest = findStationNearestToCoordinates(config, lon, lat)
from ecohydroworkflowlib.climatedata.ghcndquery import getClimateDataForStation
outputDir = '/tmp'
outfileName = 'clim.txt'
getClimateDataForStation(config, outputDir, outfileName, nearest[0])

Parameters

config	ConfigParser containing the section 'GHCND' and option 'PATH_OF_STATION_DB'
longitude	Float representing WGS84 longitude
latitude	Float representing WGS84 latitude

Returns

Tuple of the form (station_id, longitude, latitude, elevation_meters, name, distance), None if no gage is found.

from ecohydroworkflowlib.climatedata.ghcndquery import findStationNearestToCoordinates
import ConfigParser
config = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser()
config.read('./bin/macosx2.cfg')
lon = -76.7443397486
lat = 39.2955590994
nearest = findStationNearestToCoordinates(config, lon, lat)
from ecohydroworkflowlib.climatedata.ghcndquery import getClimateDataForStation
outputDir = '/tmp'
outfileName = 'clim.txt'
getClimateDataForStation(config, outputDir, outfileName, nearest[0])

def ecohydroworkflowlib.climatedata.ghcndquery.findStationsWithinBoundingBox	(		config,
			bbox
	)

Find stations that lie within a bounding box.

Parameters

config	ConfigParser containing the section 'GHCND' and option 'PATH_OF_STATION_DB'
bbox	A dict containing keys: minX, minY, maxX, maxY, srs, where srs='EPSG:4326'

Returns

A list of GHCN station attributes for each station within the bounding box: [id, lat, lon, elevation, name]

import os
import ConfigParser
from ecohydroworkflowlib.metadata import GenericMetadata
from ecohydroworkflowlib.climatedata.ghcndquery import findStationsWithinBoundingBox
studyArea = GenericMetadata.readStudyAreaEntries(projectDir)
bbox = studyArea['bbox_wgs84'].split()
bbox = dict({'minX': float(bbox[0]), 'minY': float(bbox[1]), 'maxX': float(bbox[2]), 'maxY': float(bbox[3]), 'srs': 'EPSG:4326'})
    
configFile = os.environ['ECOHYDROWORKFLOW_CFG']
config = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser()
config.read(configFile)

stations = findStationsWithinBoundingBox(config,bbox)

def ecohydroworkflowlib.climatedata.ghcndquery.getClimateDataForStation	(		config,
			outputDir,
			outFilename,
			stationID,
			overwrite = True
	)

Fetch climate timeseries data for a GHCN daily station.

Parameters

config	A Python ConfigParser (not currently used)
outputDir	String representing the absolute/relative path of the directory into which output DEM should be written
outDEMFilename	String representing the name of the DEM file to be written
stationID	String representing unique identifier of station
overwrite	Boolean value indicating whether or not the file indicated by filename should be overwritten. If False and filename exists, IOError exception will be thrown with errno.EEXIST
overwrite	Boolean value indicating whether or not the file indicated by filename should be overwritten. If False and filename exists, IOError exception will be thrown with errno.EEXIST

IOError if outputDir is not a writable directory IOError if outFilename already exists and overwrite is False (see above)

Returns

True if timeseries data were fetched and False if not

Variable Documentation

int ecohydroworkflowlib.climatedata.ghcndquery._BUFF_LEN 4096

tuple ecohydroworkflowlib.climatedata.ghcndquery._SRS int(4326)

string ecohydroworkflowlib.climatedata.ghcndquery.HOST 'www1.ncdc.noaa.gov'

string ecohydroworkflowlib.climatedata.ghcndquery.URL_PROTO '/pub/data/ghcn/daily/all/{station_id}.dly'