ulmo 0.3.0

clean, simple and fast access to public hydrology and climatology data

clean, simple and fast access to public hydrology and climatology data

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Features

• retrieves and parses datasets from the web

• returns simple python data structures that can be easily pulled into more sophisticated tools for analysis

• caches datasets locally and harvests updates as needed

Datasets

Currently, ulmo supports the following datasets / services:

• United States Geological Survey National Water Information System

• National Climatic Data Center Global Summary of the Day

• National Climatic Data Center Global Historical Climatology Network

• CUAHSI WaterOneFlow

Future

Support for the following datasets is currently under development and they should be available soon:

• National Weather Service 24-hour Precip (4 km grid)

• Climate Prediction Center Weekly Drought Monitor

A list of future datasets is kept in on the issue tracker. If there’s a dataset you’d like to see added, please open an issue about it.

Links

• Documentation: http://ulmo.readthedocs.org

• Repository: https://github.com/twdb/ulmo