sondera

Overview

sondera is a python package providing clients for accessing Swedish hydrology and meteorology related open data and observations. Data sources currently include SMHI open data API and SGU groundwater API.

Development Status: Pre-Alpha. Consider the API unstable, it may change at short or no notice.

Data sources and licenses

It is the end users responsibility to adhere to the license of each respective data provider. See the links to the licenses below.

The following clients are currently implemented or under implementation:

Observations

• SMHI Open Data Meteorological Observations (license, host link)
• SMHI Open Data Hydrological Observations (license, host link)
• SGU Groundwater level time series (license, host link)

Model products

• SMHI Strång mesoscale model for solar radiation (license, host link)

Requirements and installation

Requirements:

numpy
pandas
geopandas
requests
tqdm

Install from pypi using pip

pip install sondera

General description and example usage

Observational data which is linked to a station is returned as a DataSeries object, which contains metadata information in addition to the observed data series.

Modelling products are returned as the data series only, which is either a pandas Series or DataFrame, or xarray for multi-dimensional data.

# Example getting hourly air temperature for the latest months from
# SMHI station Stockholm-Observatoriekullen A  (number 98230)
from sondera.clients.smhi import MetObsClient, ParametersMetObs

client = MetObsClient()
# For the parameter we can pass either the ParametersMetObs enum
# or simply the SMHI integer id (which is 1 for hourly air temperature)
air_temp = client.get_observations(parameter=ParametersMetObs.TemperatureAirHour,
                         station=98230,
                         period='latest-months')

# observations are stored under "data" attribute as a pandas.Series
air_temp.data.head(5)
timestamp
2021-12-31 01:00:00    4.9
2021-12-31 02:00:00    4.2
2021-12-31 03:00:00    3.5
2021-12-31 04:00:00    3.1
2021-12-31 05:00:00    3.0
Name: TemperatureAirHour, dtype: float64

# additional data, such as quality tags are stored under "aux_data"
air_temp.aux_data.head(5)
                    quality
timestamp                  
2021-12-31 01:00:00       G
2021-12-31 02:00:00       G
2021-12-31 03:00:00       G
2021-12-31 04:00:00       G
2021-12-31 05:00:00       G

# information on the station is also available, such as name, id, coordinates,
# and history
air_temp.station
Station(name='Stockholm-Observatoriekullen A', id=98230, agency='SMHI', 
        position=Coordinate(y=59.341681, x=18.054928, z=43.133, epsg_xy=4326, epsg_z=5613),
        station_type=<StationType.MetStation: 2>, active_station=True, 
        active_period=[Timestamp('1996-10-01 00:00:00'), Timestamp('2022-05-10 07:00:00')],
        last_updated=Timestamp('2022-05-10 07:00:00'), station_info={}, 
        position_history=[{'from': Timestamp('1996-10-01 00:00:00'), 
                           'to': Timestamp('2022-05-10 07:00:00'), 
                           'position': Coordinate(y=59.341681, x=18.054928, z=43.133,
                                                  epsg_xy=4326, epsg_z=5613)}])

Feedback and issues

Please report issues here: https://github.com/rhkarls/sondera/issues

General feedback is most welcome, please post that as well under issues.

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2021, Reinert Huseby Karlsen

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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