hydrotoolbox 2.3.0

Command line script and Python library for analysis of flow time-series.

hydrotoolbox - Quick Guide

The hydrotoolbox is a Python script for hydrologic calculations and analysis or by function calls within Python. Uses pandas (http://pandas.pydata.org/) or numpy (http://numpy.scipy.org) for any heavy lifting.

Requirements

• python 3.10 or higher

Installation

pip

pip install hydrotoolbox

conda

conda install -c conda-forge hydrotoolbox

Usage - API

All functions return a PANDAS DataFrame. Input can be a CSV or TAB separated file, or a PANDAS DataFrame and is supplied to the function via the ‘input_ts’ keyword.

Simply import hydrotoolbox:

from hydrotoolbox import hydrotoolbox

# Then you could call the functions
ntsd = hydrotoolbox.baseflow_sep(method='boughton', input_ts='tests/test_fill_01.csv')

Usage - Command Line

All functions are available from the command line. The command line interface is a wrapper around the functions in the hydrotoolbox module. The command line arguments match one-to-one with the function arguments.

To get help for the command line interface, run:

hydrotoolbox --help

Which gives you the following output:

usage: hydrotoolbox [-h] [-v]
                    {baseflow_sep, recession, flow_duration, storm_events,
                    indices, exceedance_time, about} ...

positional arguments:
  {baseflow_sep,recession,flow_duration,storm_events,indices,exceedance_time,about}
    baseflow_sep        baseflow_sep subcommand
    recession           Recession coefficient.
    flow_duration       Flow duration.
    storm_events        Storm events.
    indices             Calculate hydrologic indices.
    exceedance_time     Calculate the time that a time series exceeds (or is
                        below) a threshold.
    about               Display version number and system information.

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --version         show program's version number and exit

To get help for a specific subcommand, run:

hydrotoolbox <subcommand> --help

The default for all of the subcommands is to accept data from stdin (typically a pipe). If a subcommand accepts an input file for an argument, you can use “–input_ts=input_file_name.csv”, or to explicitly specify from stdin (the default) “–input_ts=’-‘”.

For the subcommands that output data it is printed to the screen and you can then redirect to a file.