tsgettoolbox 25.1.11

Will get time series from different sources on the internet

tsgettoolbox - Quick Guide

The ‘tsgettoolbox’ is a Python script and library to get time-series data from different web services. The tsgettoolbox will work with Python 2.6+ and 3.0+.

Documentation

Reference documentation is at tsgettoolbox_documentation.

Installation

At the command line:

$ pip install tsgettoolbox

Usage Summary - Command Line

Just run ‘tsgettoolbox –help’ to get a list of subcommands. To get detailed help for a particular sub-command, for instance ‘coops’, type ‘tsgettoolbox coops –help’.

about

Display version number and system information.

cdec

US/CA station E,H,D,M: California Department of Water Resources

coops

global station 1T,6T,H,D,M: Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services

cpc

US/region W: Climate Prediction Center, Weekly Drought Index

daymet

NAmerica 1km 1980- D,M:Daymet, daily meteorology by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory

fawn

US/FL 15T,H,D,M:Florida Automated Weather Network (FAWN)

hydstra_ts

Kisters Hydstra Webservice - time series values

hydstra_catalog

Kisters Hydstra Webservice - variable catalog for a station

hydstra_stations

Kisters Hydstra Webservice - station list for a server

ldas

grid: Land Data Assimilation System, includes all ldas_* (NLDAS, GLDAS2, TRMM, SMERGE, GRACE, MERRA)

ldas_gldas_noah

global 0.25deg 2000- 3H:GLDAS NOAH hydrology model results

ldas_grace

NAmerica 0.125deg 2002- 7D:Groundwater and soil moisture from GRACE

ldas_merra

global 0.5x0.625deg 1980- H:MERRA-2 Land surface forcings

ldas_merra_update

global 0.5x0.667deg 1980-2016 H:MERRA-2 Analysis update

ldas_nldas_fora

NAmerica 0.125deg 1979- H:NLDAS Weather Forcing A (surface)

ldas_nldas_noah

NAmerica 0.125deg 1979- H:NLDAS NOAH hydrology model results

ldas_smerge

global 0.125deg 1997- D:SMERGE-Noah-CCI root zone soil moisture

ldas_trmm_tmpa

global 0.25deg 1997- 3H:TRMM (TMPA) rainfall estimate

metdata

NAmerica 4km 1980- D: Download daily data from METDATA based on PRISM.

modis

global 250m,500m,1000m 2000- 4D,8D,16D,A:Download MODIS derived data.

ncei_ghcnd_ftp

global station D:NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily (GHCND)

ncei_ghcnd

global station D:Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily (GHCND)

ncei_gsod

global station D:NCEI Global Summary of the Day (GSOD)

ncei_gsom

global station M:NCEI Global Summary of Month (GSOM)

ncei_gsoy

global station A:NCEI Global Summary of Year (GSOY)

ncei_normal_ann

global station A: NCEI annual normals

ncei_normal_dly

global station D:NCEI Daily Normals

ncei_normal_hly

global station H:NCEI Normal hourly

ncei_normal_mly

global station M:NCEI Monthly Summaries.

ncei_precip_15

global station 15T:NCEI 15 minute precipitation

ncei_precip_hly

global station H:NCEI hourly precipitation

ncei_annual

global station A:NCEI annual data summaries

ncei_ghcndms

global station M:NCEI GHCND Monthly Summaries (GHCNDMS)

ncei_ish

global station H:Integrated Surface Database

ndbc

US station T,6T,10T,15T,H,D:Download historical from the National Data Buoy Center.

nwis

US station:Use the nwis_* functions instead.

nwis_iv

US station E:USGS NWIS Instantaneous Values

nwis_dv

US station D:USGS NWIS Daily Values

nwis_site

US station:USGS NWIS Site Database

nwis_gwlevels

US station:USGS NWIS Groundwater Levels

nwis_measurements

US station:USGS NWIS Measurements

nwis_peak

US station:USGS NWIS Peak

nwis_stat

US station:USGS NWIS Statistic

epa_wqp

US station E:EPA Water Quality Portal.

rivergages

US station:USACE river gages

swtwc

US/region station:USACE Southwest Division, Tulsa Water Control

terraclimate

global 1/24deg 1958- M:Download monthly data from Terraclimate.

terraclimate2C

global 1/24deg M:Monthly normals from Terraclimate with 2deg C hotter climate.

terraclimate4C

global 1/24deg M:Monthly normals from Terraclimate with 4deg C hotter climate.

terraclimate19611990

global 1/24deg M:Monthly normals using TerraClimate monthly data from 1961 to 1990.

terraclimate19812010

global 1/24deg M:Monthly normals using TerraClimate monthly data from 1981 to 2010.

topowx

US 30arcsecond 1948- M:Topoclimatic Monthly Air Temperature Dataset.

topowx_daily

US 30arcsecond 1948- D:Topoclimatic Daily Air Temperature Dataset.

twc

US/TX station D:Download Texas Weather Connection (TWC) data.

unavco

US station: Download data from the Unavco web services.

usgs_flet_narr

US/FL 2km D:USGS FL ET data from NARR meteorologic data.

usgs_flet_stns

US/FL 2km D:USGS FL ET data from station interpolated meteorologic data.

Usage Summary - Python Library

To use the tsgettoolbox in a project:

from tsgettoolbox import tsgettoolbox
df = tsgettoolbox.nwis_dv(sites="02329500", startDT="2000-01-01")

Refer to the API Documentation at tsgettoolbox_api.

Usage Summary - Command Line

tsgettoolbox nwis_dv –sites 02329500 –startDT 2000-01-01

Refer to the command line documentation at tsgettoolbox_cli.

Development

Development is managed on bitbucket or github. https://bitbucket.org/timcera/tsgettoolbox/overview. https://github.com/timcera/tsgettoolbox