Package to import AURN air quality data from DEFRA UK AIR site
Project description
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 pyaurn import importAURN, importMetadata
# Download metadata of site IDs, names, locations etc
metadata = importMetadata()
# Download 4 years of data for the Marylebone Road site
# (MY1 is the site ID for this site)
# Note: range(2016, 2022) will produce a list of six years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. Alternatively define a list of years to use eg. [2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021]
data = importAURN("MY1", range(2016, 2022))
Future developments
- integrate other openair functions
- open to suggestions
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