`snowtool`

Snow analysis tool for basin forecasting.

snowtool manages a snowdb — an on-disk directory holding multiple gridded snow datasets (SNODAS, UA SWANN, SPIRES/INSTARR, …) — and answers per-basin queries against it: zonal statistics of snow variables crossed over elevation bands, aspect classes, and forest-cover thresholds. It ships as a CLI and a read-only HTTP API, both sitting on the same core.

A snowdb is a plain directory: a root config, a pourpoints/ catalog, and a data/<dataset>/ tree of per-date COGs. Basins are delineated from pourpoints and burned into per-dataset area-weighted masks; queries reduce datasets over those masks live. Raster I/O is rasterio + async-tiff + griffine — no system GDAL required.

Installation

Requires Python 3.14+. Install as a uv tool:

uv tool install snowtool

Or run from a clone for development — see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Configuration

snowtool reads its snowdb location from the SNOWTOOL_SNOWDB_CONFIG environment variable (or the per-command --config/-C option). Dotenv loading is disabled, so the variable must be set in the environment:

export SNOWTOOL_SNOWDB_CONFIG=/path/to/snowdb/snowdb_conf.json

Usage

The CLI has top-level commands (init, status, doctor, stats) and command groups (dataset, pourpoint, api, windows); run snowtool --help or snowtool <command|group> --help for details. Serve the read-only HTTP API with uvicorn snowtool.api.app:get_app --factory (or snowtool api serve).

See the documentation for full usage, deployment (including Windows/IIS), and generated CLI, HTTP API, and Python API reference.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for development setup, testing, and project conventions.

Team members: see the development notes for additional context.

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