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Python AWIPS Data Access Framework
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`AWIPS <http://unidata.github.io/awips2>`_ is a weather display and analysis package developed by the National Weather Service for operational forecasting. UCAR's `Unidata Program Center <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/awips2/>`_ supports a non-operational open-source release of the AWIPS software (`EDEX <http://unidata.github.io/awips2/#edex>`_, `CAVE <http://unidata.github.io/awips2/#cave>`_, and `python-awips <https://github.com/Unidata/python-awips>`_).
The python-awips package provides a data access framework for requesting grid and geometry datasets from an `EDEX <http://unidata.github.io/awips2/#edex>`_ server.
.. _Jupyter Notebook: http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/Unidata/python-awips/tree/master/examples/notebooks
Install
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- pip install python-awips
Requirements
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- Python 2.7+
- Shapely 1.4+
- MetPy and enum34 to run the `Jupyter Notebook`_ examples
Quick Example
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::
from awips.dataaccess import DataAccessLayer
DataAccessLayer.changeEDEXHost("edex-cloud.unidata.ucar.edu")
dataTypes = DataAccessLayer.getSupportedDatatypes()
list(dataTypes)
['acars',
'binlightning',
'bufrmosavn',
'bufrmoseta',
'bufrmosgfs',
'bufrmoshpc',
'bufrmoslamp',
'bufrmosmrf',
'bufrua',
'climate',
'common_obs_spatial',
'gfe',
'grid',
'hydro',
'maps',
'modelsounding',
'obs',
'practicewarning',
'radar',
'radar_spatial',
'satellite',
'sfcobs',
'topo',
'warning']
request = DataAccessLayer.newDataRequest()
request.setDatatype("satellite")
availableSectors = DataAccessLayer.getAvailableLocationNames(request)
availableSectors.sort()
for sector in availableSectors:
print sector
request.setLocationNames(sector)
availableProducts = DataAccessLayer.getAvailableParameters(request)
availableProducts.sort()
for product in availableProducts:
print " - " + product
ECONUS
- ACTP
- ADP
- AOD
- CAPE
- CH-01-0.47um
- CH-02-0.64um
- CH-03-0.87um
- CH-04-1.38um
...
EFD
- ACTP
- ADP
- AOD
- CAPE
- CH-01-0.47um
- CH-02-0.64um
- CH-03-0.87um
- CH-04-1.38um
...
See the `API Documentation <api/DataAccessLayer.html>`_ for more information.
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Documentation
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.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
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api/index
examples/index
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