Meteora

Pythonic interface to access observations from meteorological stations. Key features:

• easily stream meteorological observations from multiple providers, from global (e.g., GHCNh) and regional (e.g., MeteoSwiss) networks to citizen weather stations (e.g., Netatmo) into pandas data frames.
• user-friendly arguments to filter data by region, variables or date ranges.
• request and download caching with requests-cache and pooch to avoid re-downloading data and help bypassing API limits.
• postprocess the collected data, e.g.:
  • compute climate indices
  • detect heatwave periods
  • produce ground truth datasets to benchmark weather forecasts
  • perform quality-control on citizen weather station data
  • correct radiation biases of low-cost temperature sensors

Overview

Meteora provides a set of provider-specific clients to get observations from meteorological stations. For instance, it can be used to stream data from the Global Historical Climatology Network hourly (GHCNh) into a pandas data frame:

from meteora.clients import GHCNHourlyClient

region = "Canton de Vaud, Switzerland"
variables = ["temperature", "precipitation", "wind_speed"]
start = "12-11-2021"
end = "12-12-2021"

client = GHCNHourlyClient(region)
ts_df = client.get_ts_df(variables, start, end)
ts_df.head()

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We can also get the station locations using the stations_gdf property:

import contextily as cx

ax = client.stations_gdf.assign(
    T_mean=ts_df.groupby("station_id")["temperature"].mean()
).plot(
    "T_mean",
    cmap="winter",
    legend=True,
    legend_kwds={"label": "$\overline{T} \; [\circ C]$", "shrink": 0.5},
)
cx.add_basemap(ax, crs=client.stations_gdf.crs, attribution=False)

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See the user guide for more details about the features of Meteora as well as the list of supported providers.

Installation

The easiest way to install Meteora is with conda/mamba:

conda install -c conda-forge meteora

Alternatively, if geopandas dependencies are installed correctly, you can install Meteora using pip:

pip install meteora

See also

Meteora intends to provide a unified way to access data from meteorological stations from multiple providers. The following libraries provide access to data from a specific provider:

• martibosch/agrometeo-geopy
• martibosch/netatmo-geopy

Eventually these packages will be fully integrated into Meteora.

Acknowledgements

• The logging system is based on code from gboeing/osmnx.
• This package was created with the martibosch/cookiecutter-geopy-package project template.
• With the support of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).