nzmetservice 1.0.3

functions to download and process metservice data

The nzmetservice package contains various functions for downloading, processing, and handling of New Zealand MetService forecast data. This package is not associated with the MetService.

Installation

nzmetservice can be installed via pip or conda:

pip install nzmetservice

or:

conda install -c mullenkamp nzmetservice

The core dependencies are Pandas and xarray.

Usage

ftp_transfer

The ftp_transfer functions does as the name implies. It looks at the output_path on your local drive then compares it to the MetService ftp site and downloads what is on the ftp site that isn’t in the output_path. It can be loaded in from the basic module:

from nzmetservice import ftp_transfer

And feed it with the necessary parameters:

ftp_transfer(ftp_path, username, password, output_path)

You will likely want to create a scheduled task to run a script containing this function once an hour.

Selection and processing

The other two functions are simple selection and conversion tools.

import pandas as pd
from nzmetservice import select_bounds, to_df, datasets

pd.options.display.max_columns = 10

#####################################
### Parameters

min_lat = -47
max_lat = -40
min_lon = 166
max_lon = 175
nc1_path = datasets.get_path('wrf_hourly_precip_nz8km_test')

####################################
### Examples

ms1 = select_bounds(nc1_path, min_lat, max_lat, min_lon, max_lon)

ms_df = to_df(ms1, to_rate=True)