pyaurn 0.0.2

Package to import AURN air quality data from DEFRA UK AIR site

PyAURN

This is a reworked fork of the robintw/PyAURN utilising pyreadr instead of rpy2. This negates having a local installation of R, and therefore can remain a python only configuration.

This is a simple Python package to import data from the UK Automatic Urban Rural Network - an air pollution network run by the UK government.

This is a Python port of a couple of functions of the openair R package. This R package relies on data provided as a set of .RData files on the Defra website, specifically designed for use by the openair project. This Python package relies on the same data.

Getting started

Install the via pip:

pip install pyaurn

Run the two functions in the package as below:

from importAURN import importAURN, importMetadata

# Download metadata of site IDs, names, locations etc
metadata = importMetadata()

# Download 4 years of data for the Southampton Central site
# (SOUT is the site ID for this site)
# Note: range(2015, 2019) will produce a list of four years: 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018
data = importAURN("SOUT", range(2015, 2019))