climata 0.1.0

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climata is a pythonic interface for loading and processing time series data from the Applied Climate Information System (ACIS). climata leverages the webservices available at http://data.rcc-acis.org.

Getting Started

pip install climata

See https://github.com/heigeo/climata to report any issues. climata is powered by wq.io.

Usage

Command-line interface:

# Load metadata for sites in Mississippi Headwaters HUC4
acis_sites.py 0701 > sites.csv

# Load daily average temperature for these sites
acis_data.py 0701 avgt > data.csv

Python API:

from climata import StationDataIO

# Load average temperature for sites in Mississippi Headwaters HUC8
sites = StationDataIO(
    basin="07010101",
    sdate="2012-12-01",
    edate="2012-12-31",
    elems="avgt"
)

# Display site information and time series data
for site in sites:
    print site.name
    for evt in site.data:
        print evt.date, evt.avgt