pysoundings

What it is

pysoundings is just a simple little module designed to pull atmospheric sounding data from the University of Wyoming, College of Engineering, Department of Atmospheric Science's website. All you need is the station number and the date and this module will return a pandas.DataFrame containing the sounding data. You may still want to go to the website to determine what stations are available, but there are data from a lot of stations in the United States.

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"""
# What it is

**pysoundings** is just a simple little module designed to pull atmospheric sounding data from the [University of Wyoming, College of Engineering, Department of Atmospheric Science's website](http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html). All you need is the station number and the date and this module will return a [pandas.DataFrame](https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.html) containing the sounding data. You may still want to go to the website to determine what stations are available, but there are data from a lot of stations in the United States.
"""


from pysoundings.main import *


__docformat__ = 'numpy'
__version__ = '0.1.0'


def get_data(stnm, year, month, day_hour):
    """
    This function calls all the necessary functions to build the url with the given date and station number, and then extracts the data from the loaded webpage from the [University of Wyoming, College of Engineering, Department of Atmospheric Science's website](http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html) that contains the atmospheric sounding data.

    Parameters
    ----------
    stnm : string
        String of the station identifier, e.g. '70261' for PAFA, Fairbanks Int'l Airport.
    year : string
        String of the year, e.g. '2021'.
    month : string
        String of the month, e.g. '01'.
    day_hour : string
        String of the combined day and hour, e.g. '0100' for the first day of the month as '01', and for the beginning of the day in UTC as '00'.

    Returns
    -------
    data : DataFrame
        A [pandas.DataFrame](https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.html) containing the atmospheric data with a labeled header.
    units : string
        String of the units of the pandas DataFrame columns.

    Examples
    --------

    >>> stnm, year, month, day_hour = '70261', '2021', '01', '0100'
    >>> data, units = get_data(stnm, year, month, day_hour)
    >>> data
           PRES   HGHT  TEMP  DWPT  RELH  MIXR   DRCT  SKNT   THTA   THTE   THTV
    0    1000.0     93   NaN   NaN   NaN   NaN    NaN   NaN    NaN    NaN    NaN
    1     994.0    134 -23.3 -25.7  81.0  0.48   85.0   1.0  250.3  251.6  250.3
    2     992.0    149 -19.3 -20.9  87.0  0.73   80.0   1.0  254.4  256.5  254.6
    3     990.0    164 -18.9 -20.9  84.0  0.73   75.0   2.0  255.0  257.0  255.1
    4     988.0    179 -15.7 -17.6  85.0  0.98   70.0   2.0  258.3  261.1  258.5
    ..      ...    ...   ...   ...   ...   ...    ...   ...    ...    ...    ...
    153    10.0  30830 -59.7 -89.7   1.0  0.01  345.0  94.0  795.6  795.8  795.7
    154     9.9  30893 -60.1 -90.1   1.0  0.01  345.0  95.0  796.5  796.6  796.5
    155     9.6  31090 -59.8 -90.1   1.0  0.01  345.0  98.0  804.9  805.0  804.9
    156     9.1  31394 -59.3 -90.0   1.0  0.01  345.0  94.0  818.0  818.2  818.0
    157     8.0  32229 -57.9 -89.9   1.0  0.02    NaN   NaN  855.2  855.4  855.2
        [158 rows x 11 columns]
    >>> units
    '    hPa     m      C      C      %    g/kg    deg   knot     K      K      K '
    """
    
    param_dict = build_param_dict(stnm, year, month, day_hour)
    url = build_url(param_dict)
    data, units = pull_data(url)

    return data, units


def save_data(csv_path, data, units):
    """
    Saves the DataFrame containing the atmospheric sounding data, and the accompanying units, and saves the data in a csv file.

    Parameters
    ----------
    csv_path : string
        String of the file path to save the data at.
    data : DataFrame
        A [pandas.DataFrame](https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.html) containing the atmospheric data with a labeled header.
    units : string
        String of the units of the pandas DataFrame columns.
    """
    
    with open(csv_path, 'a') as file:
        file.write('# units:' + units + '\n')
        data.to_csv(file)

# def get_data(stnm, year, month, day_hour):

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def get_data(stnm, year, month, day_hour):
    """
    This function calls all the necessary functions to build the url with the given date and station number, and then extracts the data from the loaded webpage from the [University of Wyoming, College of Engineering, Department of Atmospheric Science's website](http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html) that contains the atmospheric sounding data.

    Parameters
    ----------
    stnm : string
        String of the station identifier, e.g. '70261' for PAFA, Fairbanks Int'l Airport.
    year : string
        String of the year, e.g. '2021'.
    month : string
        String of the month, e.g. '01'.
    day_hour : string
        String of the combined day and hour, e.g. '0100' for the first day of the month as '01', and for the beginning of the day in UTC as '00'.

    Returns
    -------
    data : DataFrame
        A [pandas.DataFrame](https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.html) containing the atmospheric data with a labeled header.
    units : string
        String of the units of the pandas DataFrame columns.

    Examples
    --------

    >>> stnm, year, month, day_hour = '70261', '2021', '01', '0100'
    >>> data, units = get_data(stnm, year, month, day_hour)
    >>> data
           PRES   HGHT  TEMP  DWPT  RELH  MIXR   DRCT  SKNT   THTA   THTE   THTV
    0    1000.0     93   NaN   NaN   NaN   NaN    NaN   NaN    NaN    NaN    NaN
    1     994.0    134 -23.3 -25.7  81.0  0.48   85.0   1.0  250.3  251.6  250.3
    2     992.0    149 -19.3 -20.9  87.0  0.73   80.0   1.0  254.4  256.5  254.6
    3     990.0    164 -18.9 -20.9  84.0  0.73   75.0   2.0  255.0  257.0  255.1
    4     988.0    179 -15.7 -17.6  85.0  0.98   70.0   2.0  258.3  261.1  258.5
    ..      ...    ...   ...   ...   ...   ...    ...   ...    ...    ...    ...
    153    10.0  30830 -59.7 -89.7   1.0  0.01  345.0  94.0  795.6  795.8  795.7
    154     9.9  30893 -60.1 -90.1   1.0  0.01  345.0  95.0  796.5  796.6  796.5
    155     9.6  31090 -59.8 -90.1   1.0  0.01  345.0  98.0  804.9  805.0  804.9
    156     9.1  31394 -59.3 -90.0   1.0  0.01  345.0  94.0  818.0  818.2  818.0
    157     8.0  32229 -57.9 -89.9   1.0  0.02    NaN   NaN  855.2  855.4  855.2
        [158 rows x 11 columns]
    >>> units
    '    hPa     m      C      C      %    g/kg    deg   knot     K      K      K '
    """
    
    param_dict = build_param_dict(stnm, year, month, day_hour)
    url = build_url(param_dict)
    data, units = pull_data(url)

    return data, units

This function calls all the necessary functions to build the url with the given date and station number, and then extracts the data from the loaded webpage from the University of Wyoming, College of Engineering, Department of Atmospheric Science's website that contains the atmospheric sounding data.

Parameters

stnm (string): String of the station identifier, e.g. '70261' for PAFA, Fairbanks Int'l Airport.
year (string): String of the year, e.g. '2021'.
month (string): String of the month, e.g. '01'.
day_hour (string): String of the combined day and hour, e.g. '0100' for the first day of the month as '01', and for the beginning of the day in UTC as '00'.

Returns

data (DataFrame): A pandas.DataFrame containing the atmospheric data with a labeled header.
units (string): String of the units of the pandas DataFrame columns.

Examples

>>> stnm, year, month, day_hour = '70261', '2021', '01', '0100'
>>> data, units = get_data(stnm, year, month, day_hour)
>>> data
       PRES   HGHT  TEMP  DWPT  RELH  MIXR   DRCT  SKNT   THTA   THTE   THTV
0    1000.0     93   NaN   NaN   NaN   NaN    NaN   NaN    NaN    NaN    NaN
1     994.0    134 -23.3 -25.7  81.0  0.48   85.0   1.0  250.3  251.6  250.3
2     992.0    149 -19.3 -20.9  87.0  0.73   80.0   1.0  254.4  256.5  254.6
3     990.0    164 -18.9 -20.9  84.0  0.73   75.0   2.0  255.0  257.0  255.1
4     988.0    179 -15.7 -17.6  85.0  0.98   70.0   2.0  258.3  261.1  258.5
..      ...    ...   ...   ...   ...   ...    ...   ...    ...    ...    ...
153    10.0  30830 -59.7 -89.7   1.0  0.01  345.0  94.0  795.6  795.8  795.7
154     9.9  30893 -60.1 -90.1   1.0  0.01  345.0  95.0  796.5  796.6  796.5
155     9.6  31090 -59.8 -90.1   1.0  0.01  345.0  98.0  804.9  805.0  804.9
156     9.1  31394 -59.3 -90.0   1.0  0.01  345.0  94.0  818.0  818.2  818.0
157     8.0  32229 -57.9 -89.9   1.0  0.02    NaN   NaN  855.2  855.4  855.2
    [158 rows x 11 columns]
>>> units
'    hPa     m      C      C      %    g/kg    deg   knot     K      K      K '

# def save_data(csv_path, data, units):

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def save_data(csv_path, data, units):
    """
    Saves the DataFrame containing the atmospheric sounding data, and the accompanying units, and saves the data in a csv file.

    Parameters
    ----------
    csv_path : string
        String of the file path to save the data at.
    data : DataFrame
        A [pandas.DataFrame](https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.html) containing the atmospheric data with a labeled header.
    units : string
        String of the units of the pandas DataFrame columns.
    """
    
    with open(csv_path, 'a') as file:
        file.write('# units:' + units + '\n')
        data.to_csv(file)

Saves the DataFrame containing the atmospheric sounding data, and the accompanying units, and saves the data in a csv file.

Parameters

csv_path (string): String of the file path to save the data at.
data (DataFrame): A pandas.DataFrame containing the atmospheric data with a labeled header.
units (string): String of the units of the pandas DataFrame columns.