climate_analyzer

climate_analyzer is a command line app that downloads NOAA weather station daily summary data and provides a gui to analyze year-to-year trends. It also provides for searching a particular region for available NOAA weather stations. climate_analyzer uses NOAA's Web Services API described here: ([https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/webservices]).

Features

1. Search for available NOAA weather stations by state/county.
2. Download NOAA Climate Daily Summary Data by weather station.
3. Store data in off-line database(s) organized by weather station.
4. Visualize with tkinter + matplotlib GUI
5. Checks NOAA Web Services for updates to existing off-line database(s).

Usage

climate_analyzer is a command line app that takes one and only one option. If no option is provided, climate_analyzer checks for updates to existing databases and then launches the visualization gui. In order to access NOAA's Web Services, an access token must be obtained and provided to climate_analyzer.

When installed with pip, climate_analyzer will add 'cda.exe' to the Python Environment in the pythonXX\Scripts directory and a climate_analysis package to pythonXX\Lib\site-packages. cda.exe utilizes the climate_analysis package. Config data is kept in cda.ini, also stored in pythonXX\Lib\site-packages.

Options

--token [access-token]

Set the used by climate_analyzer when connecting to NOAA's Web Services. The is a 32-character alpha-numeric and can be obtained from here here: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/token This, and other configuration parameters are stored in ..\site-packages\climate_analyzer\cda.ini.

--findrgn [state]

Set the state & county region used by --find. For each state, climate_analyzer prompts with a list of possible counties (or parishes). The state/county is converted 5-digit fip_code and stored in cda.ini. See: https://www.census.gov/library/reference/code-lists/ansi.html

--find [radius]

Display <STATION_ID> and other information for all weather stations within the state & county set by -findrgn.

--home [lat,long]

Set internal variable used to calculate distance of weather station.

--station [alias]

Set <STATION_ALIAS> and <STATION_ID> used by --getcd. The user is prompted for the <STATION_ID>. Any number of alias & id pairs may be set but a [alias, id] pair must be set inorder to download its climate data.

--getcd [alias]

Download all available daily summary climate data for [alias]. Daily summary consists of [tmin, tmax, tavg, prcp, snow, snwd]. Data is stored in sqlite database @ %USERPROFILE%/AppData/ClimateData with a filename of [alias]. The location used to store sqlite databases can be changed by editing cda.ini.