OpenKMI

Python package to download synoptic measurements from KMI

Description

OpenKMI serves as a wrapper around the open data that the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (RMI) offers. At present only the Synoptic observations are implemented. The package serves as a wrapper around the existing WFS service to download the SYNOP data.

The SYNOP data of RMI contain the observations of the synoptic network (22 stations) for the following parameters:

1. Precipitation: PRECIP_QUANTITY + PRECIP_RANGE
2. Temperature: TEMP + TEMP_MIN + TEMP_MAX + TEMP_GRASS_MIN
3. Wind: WIND_SPEED + WIND_SPEED_UNIT + WIND_DIRECTION + WIND_PEAK_SPEED
4. relative humidity: HUMIDITY_RELATIVE
5. weather type: current weather
6. air pressure: PRESSURE of PRESSURE_STATION_LEVEL
7. sunshine duration: SUN_DURATION_24H
8. Global radiation: SHORT_WAVE_FROM_SKY_24HOUR
9. Total cloudiness: CLOUDINESS

We refer to the metadata and documentation of the synoptic measurements for more info.

This is not an official package from the RMI.

Installation

pip install openkmi

Examples

See the notebook under examples to get you started.

Quick start:

from openkmi.synoptic import Synop

# initialise
kmi = Synop()

# get the available stations
df_stations = kmi.get_stations()

# get the available parameters
params = kmi.get_parameters()

# example to get the windspeed for a station starting from 2021 - present
df = kmi.get_data('6438', start_date='2021-01-01T00:00:00', parameter_list=['wind_speed'])